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Frankie Franco :: Finding and Fulfilling Our Purpose Right Where We Are ::

My Southern Legitimacy Statement is that my Grandpa on one side was born in Oklahoma before it was a state and my Grandma on the other side was born in Mexico. That’s pretty far South if you ask me! I’m...

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Hillbilly Dada Poetry :: David Earl Williams’ chapbook ::

One Night at a Time a review by B. Lynn Zika The cover of David Earl Williams’ chapbook started me grinning. Everybody Lives Here One Night at a Time. Hillbilly Dada Poetry?! Wow. Himmerschmezitz. If you trace language poetry and...

Fiction Flash Fiction

Kenneth M. Kapp :: Bragging Rights ::

Southern Legitimacy Statement: I’ve been in the south. Got shot at running rural streets in Raleigh, NC; ran free on the levees in New Orleans. Love Faulkner. Parents & in-laws retired in Florida. Almost died from fire ants in Tarpon...

Poetry

Ray Whitaker :: Three Poems for October ::

My Southern Legitimacy Statement: After moving west, I find that I to this day, compare things out here in Big Sky country to standards set by having lived in North Carolina for a lot of my life…. truly I do...

Fiction Flash Fiction

Edward Michael Supranowicz :: A Hundred years From Now ::

Legit: I actually like grits and okra and somewhat understand the everyday despair in Faulkner. A Hundred years From Now There had been 10 pandemics since the first. There also had been two World Wars, 6 race wars, and 3...

Fiction

June Sylvester Saraceno :: Charming Bed and Breakfast in English Countryside ::

I was born and raised in rural North Carolina. I left the South in my mid-twenties, but the South never left me. Now on the other side of the country–out West–when I talk about home, I’m usually talking about eastern...

Poetry

Michael Lee Johnson :: Halloween Poems ::

Not sure what a Southern Legitimacy Statement is but – in fact I lived in Titusville, Florida and worked at Cape Canaveral between 1966-1969. I also returned after 10 yrs. in exile in Canada the Vietnam War & lived in...

Fiction

Darla Hitchcock :: I Was Either the Chaperone or the Comic Relief ::

Southern Legitimacy Statement: I grew up Southern. Southern California, that is, though my cousins moved to North Carolina (still south!) when we were young teens. So, I’ve spent a significant amount of time in the sticky south. I’m definitely in...

Poetry

Matthew Johnson :: Three Poems for October ::

Southern Legitimacy Statement: I am not Southern by birth, though the South has become an adopted home, having been a resident of Greensboro, NC for a few years now. I carry many of my upstate New York and New England...

Fiction

Dwight Hinson :: You Don’t Meet Many Poets Down at the Slaughterhouse Anymore ::

Southern Legitimacy Statement: I’ve heard it both ways. I was born at the Boyce Clinic in Hohenwald Tennessee, or at my grandparents’ house in Napier in Lewis County, a defunct ore mining community deserving of a metal sign. They are...

Poetry

Bill Pendergraft :: Three Poems for October ::

Southern Legitimacy Statement: I am a sixth-generation North Carolinian. I was a high school English teacher in Burgaw, NC and years later an environmental writer/producer who depended on major environmental organizations for my paycheck, although Southerners were sometimes seen as...

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Frankie Franco :: Finding and Fulfilling Our Purpose Right Where We Are ::

Hillbilly Dada Poetry :: David Earl Williams’ chapbook ::

Kenneth M. Kapp :: Bragging Rights ::

Ray Whitaker :: Three Poems for October ::

Edward Michael Supranowicz :: A Hundred years From Now ::

June Sylvester Saraceno :: Charming Bed and Breakfast in English Countryside ::

Michael Lee Johnson :: Halloween Poems ::

Darla Hitchcock :: I Was Either the Chaperone or the Comic Relief ::

Matthew Johnson :: Three Poems for October ::

Dwight Hinson :: You Don’t Meet Many Poets Down at the Slaughterhouse Anymore ::

Bill Pendergraft :: Three Poems for October ::

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