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Southern Spaces
A journal about real and imagined spaces and places of the US South and their global connections

The State House Aflame 1833

...a negro man named Sam, the slave of Mr. Marlow, of this place. And the legislature will reward Sam's fast action, heedless of his own safety, by appropriating $1,600 for...

Consolation

...pockets like a charm we turn as we walk home again gleaming in the delicate light of the bright, unfalling stars. "Consolation" first appeared in Blackbird and was collected in...

Another Failed Poem About the Greeks

...catamite. When we ratcheted to a full stop he said Again. We went on the Scrambler, the Apple Turnover, the Log Flume. We went on the Pirate Ship three times,...

The Gospel Pool, Short Meter, 444t

Beside the gospel pool, Appointed for the poor, From time to time my helpless soul Has waited for a cure. The hill of Zion yields A thousand sacred sweets, Before...

Atchison newspaper

...there the matter will end for all time. 'It will not look right to eastern people if we do not condemn the lynching,' said one legislator yesterday,'but personally I approve...

Excerpt from Saints at the River

...break. Her father has taken time off from his job and they have followed the Appalachian Mountains south, stopping first in Gatlinburg, then the Smokies, and finally this river. She...

Substantiation

...poor murdered's family, who's missing him, and the next day his father appears unknown for work, his name on the payroll, then gets to work at a machine no one's...