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Lee Wright :: Southern Sunday Snow ::

Southern Legitimacy Statement: Growing up in northwest Georgia, very near Chattanooga, right on the Tennessee state line, my parents would drag me to a small independent Pentecostal church every Sunday morning as well as every Sunday and Wednesday night. It...

Creative Non-Fiction / Memoirs

Anna Davis-Abel :: Southern Sweet Tea ::

Southern legitimacy statement– The South is inextricable from me as my bones. I was born in Mississippi to two families that traced their lineages to poor antebellum share croppers and then grew up in Alabama. I left the south for...

Poetry

Narya Deckard :: “Thinking About Kentucky and the Wolfpen Poems,” “The River Yearning,” and “Cicadas” ::

Southern Legitimacy Statement: Appalachia, just south of the Mason Dixon, That invisible line the weight of a dead mule. Ramps, trillium, and mayapples Showed me where I ended And West Virginia began. Appalachia, a few hundred miles south Of that...

Creative Non-Fiction / Memoirs

Eric Olsen :: Life, Legacy, Fractured Spines, and the Power of Now ::

Southern Legitimacy Statement: I am a grits, sweet tea, and collards enthusiast. I have a recipe for each that I make myself regularly. *ya’ll need to read this essay.. Life, Legacy, Fractured Spines, and the Power of Now April 13,...

Creative Non-Fiction / Memoirs

Barry Gordon Thompson-Cook :: It Was On a Bayou ::

Southern Legitimacy Statement: Barry Gordon Thompson-Cook was born in Louisiana and is buried there. In between, he lived in Dallas, Omaha before moving back to Louisiana. He left his beloved Opelousas to marry a Yankee, to the horror of his...

Poetry

Holly Thompson :: The Heeler’s Lyric; The Facts of the Legal Matter ::

Southern Legitimacy Statement: My submissions are sent to you with a promise of Southern Legitimacy, as I was born in Oak Ridge, Tennessee (birthplace of the atomic bomb) and continue to capture and pen down just a few of the...

Poetry

Jane Sasser :: Why She Poisoned Him; Ode to Barn Clothes; Bargains ::

Southern Legitimacy Statement: I attended high school in a small community in North Carolina where our track team consisted of six members, and my friend and I had to convince the coach to let us girls on the team. We...

Poetry

Savannah S. Miller. :: In Tennessee, Part II ::

Southern Legitimacy Statement: I grew up in a little town in southern Virginia whose claim to fame was an extremely popping Dairy Queen and a gas station with fried chicken that could put any KFC to shame. I spent four...

Fiction

John Riley ::What Did She Lose?::

Southern Legitimacy Statement A field did stretch between our old house in Randolph County, with its recently exposed plumbing that froze every winter, and a much nicer house across the field. The people who lived in the nice house wanted...

Poetry

Richard George :: Poetry ::

Southern Legitimacy Statement: I attended Tulane University and lived and worked in New Orleans upon completion of my studies. From an apartment by the Fairgrounds, in the middle 1990s, I published the avant-garde literary magazine, Mystery Itch. Mentally, I never...

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Lee Wright :: Southern Sunday Snow ::

Anna Davis-Abel :: Southern Sweet Tea ::

Narya Deckard :: “Thinking About Kentucky and the Wolfpen Poems,” “The River Yearning,” and “Cicadas” ::

Eric Olsen :: Life, Legacy, Fractured Spines, and the Power of Now ::

Barry Gordon Thompson-Cook :: It Was On a Bayou ::

Holly Thompson :: The Heeler’s Lyric; The Facts of the Legal Matter ::

Jane Sasser :: Why She Poisoned Him; Ode to Barn Clothes; Bargains ::

Savannah S. Miller. :: In Tennessee, Part II ::

John Riley ::What Did She Lose?::

Richard George :: Poetry ::

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