Many of the poems in C.E. Putnam's third book got their start in stolen work moments from 1997-1998 whilst working various jobs in the Washington D.C. metropolitan area. Spaces Where Spaces Are also includes the sixteen part post-apocalyptic diary poem, "Periodic Zone: Log," and the text/poem companion for the art opening "Recent in Origin: A visual anthem for the wet frontier" as well as twenty never before published handbills promoting the show.