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James Ryer :: Commentary on the State of Western Democracy – A Visually Sensory Essay ::

Southern Legitimacy Statement: I have almost exclusively lived in the South. The earlier part of that time was still the Old South: segregation, before the Civi Rights legislation of 1960 and 1964, before there was any real sense of diversity...

Poetry

Greg Stidham :: Mississippi in Spring

Southern Legitimacy Statement: Am I legitimate? Well, my parents led me to believe so. But legitimately “southern”? I was born in Indiana, lived in Ohio until age five, when we moved to Atlanta when it was still a town–pre-Falcons, pre-Underground...

Fiction

Eddie Black :: Healing Comes to Morewell Elsewhere ::

Southern Legitimacy Statement: I come from a place where you save leftover fat in a coffee can for biscuits or eggs or a gravy base. I come from a place where men go from one mother to another right after...

Creative Non-Fiction / Memoirs

R. Barkley :: Joanna Eden Carmel ::

Southern Legitimacy Statement: My family moved from NC to TX when I was 1 year old and back to NC when I was 10. Most of my life has been spent within Research Triangle Park’s sphere of influence, but I...

Fiction

Devin Jacobsen :: Evil in the Object ::

Southern Legitimacy Statement: Was born and grew up in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. So my hands still deliciously smart from years of attending crawfish boils. Evil in the Object For a while I thought love meant the same thing as doing...

Essays

Erika Hoffman :: Home Fries Riff ::

Southern Legitimacy Statement: I attended Duke University aka University of New Jersey, the state where I was born and bred. I married a Georgian fellow I met there and lived in Atlanta for five years before returning to North Carolina...

Essays

Candice Kelsey :: Relationship Smarts ::

Southern Legitimacy Statement: About nine months ago, I left Los Angeles for Augusta, GA. My back yard pushes up against the Savannah River, and I awake most mornings to the staccato of buck shot aimed at duck or deer. I...

Fiction

Juan Cruz :: Open All Night ::

Southern Legitimacy Statement: I was born in Bogotá, Colombia. I lived in South Carolina for almost a decade. I earned a PhD in Comparative Literature from the University of South Carolina (the original USC) before moving to Clinton, where I...

Fiction

Andrew Brasfield :: Green Top ::

Southern Legitimacy Statement: I live just outside of Birmingham, Alabama, across the creek from where I grew up. Despite spending eighteen years yelling “War Eagle” like my uncle and grandfather, I ended up at the University of Alabama. While attending the...

Fiction

James Emery :: Yellow Sodbuster::

Southern Legitimacy Statement: My South is dichotomy and contradiction. Trailers to million dollar homes. Homemade apple wine from Mason jars to bottles of bourbon from a call list. Dumplins and banana pudding to grilled triggerfish and cherry clafoutis. A violent...

Poetry

S.E.B. Detling :: On Choosing the Messages Adults Send to Children ::

Southern Legitimacy Statement: Given up for adoption in a one-light Tennessee town, I grew up in Memphis along the Mississippi River dancing ballet at the historic Orpheum Theatre and later dancing improv in the bars along Beale Street. I now...

Poetry

David Kendall :: Resurrection of the Dead Mule

Southern Legitimacy Statement: A few years in Biloxi, Mississippi Near the coast of waters blue, I enjoyed the Southern hospitality From the local folks I knew. Hearts as big as the whole outdoors And warm welcomes as if royalty, I...

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James Ryer :: Commentary on the State of Western Democracy – A Visually Sensory Essay ::

Greg Stidham :: Mississippi in Spring

Eddie Black :: Healing Comes to Morewell Elsewhere ::

R. Barkley :: Joanna Eden Carmel ::

Devin Jacobsen :: Evil in the Object ::

Erika Hoffman :: Home Fries Riff ::

Candice Kelsey :: Relationship Smarts ::

Juan Cruz :: Open All Night ::

Andrew Brasfield :: Green Top ::

James Emery :: Yellow Sodbuster::

S.E.B. Detling :: On Choosing the Messages Adults Send to Children ::

David Kendall :: Resurrection of the Dead Mule

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