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Category: Poetry

Paul Jones: Poetry: Nov 2021
Poetry

Paul Jones: Poetry: Nov 2021

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Southern Legitimacy Statement: Paul Jones was born in Hickory, NC. He did started his growing up in Charlotte, then spent four years at NC State. Having been at NC State…

Nathaniel Thames: Poetry: Nov 2021
Poetry

Nathaniel Thames: Poetry: Nov 2021

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Southern Legitimacy Statement: We don’t say ‘I’m from the South’ here. I usually don’t have to say where I’m from. People know our Texas from the way we talk, slow.…

R. A. Allen : Poetry: Nov 2021
Poetry

R. A. Allen : Poetry: Nov 2021

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Southern Legitimacy Statement: With the exception of four years in Starkville, Mississippi and short stretch in Lexington, Kentucky, I have lived my life in Memphis, Tennessee, which is actually more…

Tom Daley : Poetry : Nov 2021
Poetry

Tom Daley : Poetry : Nov 2021

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Southern Legitimacy Statement: Perhaps some would say that as a transplanted Yankee, I could only write a Southern Illegitimacy Statement, but I lived in the South between the age of…

Marie Griffin: Poetry: Oct 2021
Poetry

Marie Griffin: Poetry: Oct 2021

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Southern Legitimacy Statement: The simple fact of being a South Carolinian is enough to qualify me as southern, but i feel my inner southerner is a result of being a…

William Heath: poetry: Oct 2021
Poetry

William Heath: poetry: Oct 2021

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Southern Legitimacy Statement: …taught for five years at Transylvania University in Lexington, Kentucky, the oldest college west of the Appalachians where the Deep South used to send their favorite sons.…

Kalyn Livernois: Poetry: Oct 2021
Poetry

Kalyn Livernois: Poetry: Oct 2021

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Southern Legitimacy Statement: When I was 15, I gave away one of the best shirts I’ve ever owned: black, somehow fitted to my gawky frame, with white lettering that read…

Traci Elliott: Poetry: Oct 2021
Poetry

Traci Elliott: Poetry: Oct 2021

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Southern Legitimacy Statement: I come from Charlotte. When I was little, we went to church at Long Creek Baptist, and I was baptized by a preacher named Kenny, all the…

Shelley Nation-Watson: Poetry : Oct 2021
Poetry

Shelley Nation-Watson: Poetry : Oct 2021

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Southern Legitimacy Statement: I was born and raised in Oklahoma with sausage gravy and biscuits and grits. My paternal ancestors were removed from Georgia and Tennessee through the Trail of…

Lydia Yawn: Poetry: Sept 2021
Poetry

Lydia Yawn: Poetry: Sept 2021

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Southern Legitimacy Statement: I was born in Vidalia, Georgia, but I now reside in Valdosta, Georgia, moving from onions into the swampy landscape to study Creative Writing at Valdosta State…

Gary Carter: Poetry: Sept 2021
Poetry

Gary Carter: Poetry: Sept 2021

2021-09-012021-08-24

Southern Legitimacy Statement: Having been blessed and honored to have appeared previously in the Mule, I’d proudly hang my southern legitimacy on that fact alone. However, if you need more,…

Dennis Ferrara: Poetry: Sept 2021
Poetry

Dennis Ferrara: Poetry: Sept 2021

2021-09-012021-08-24

Southern Legitimacy Statement: I live in Virginia, have lived here for 35 years. I know it’s in the South, but I didn’t recognize that at first. I thought the South…

Jane Blanchard: Poetry: Sept. 2021
Poetry

Jane Blanchard: Poetry: Sept. 2021

2021-09-012021-08-24

Southern Legitimacy Statement: Native to Virginia and long-resident in Georgia, I’m as Southern as Southern can be. (Let’s not talk about the seven-year stretch in New Jersey.) A prominent Mid-Western…

Lisa Creech Bledsoe: Poetry: Sept. 2021
Poetry

Lisa Creech Bledsoe: Poetry: Sept. 2021

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Southern Legitimacy Statement: My father’s family were Appalachian farmers from Letcher County, KY and my mother’s were German Jews who ran a kosher deli on Beale Street in Memphis. I…

Mike Horan: Poetry: Sept. 2021
Poetry

Mike Horan: Poetry: Sept. 2021

2021-09-012021-08-24

Southern Legitimacy Statement: Mike Horan was raised in the South but now makes his home in the desert outside Palm Springs, California. Landscape I get up while it’s still darkHave…

Christopher Louvet: Poetry : August 2021
Poetry

Christopher Louvet: Poetry : August 2021

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My Southern Legitimacy Statement: Born in Virginia though the important years happened in North Carolina, now I live in Hanoi, which though considered the north here is still farther south…

David Lohrey: Poetry: August 2021
Poetry

David Lohrey: Poetry: August 2021

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Southern Legitimacy Statement: I’m a Memphian, currently living just outside Jacksonville, Florida. Ohio She is all about living large, She, with a capital S.Living large is easy when you’ve never…

Chelsea Logan: Poetry: August 2021
Poetry

Chelsea Logan: Poetry: August 2021

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Southern Legitimacy Statement: I am originally from Dickson, TN… yes Dickson, a town with no Starbucks or Target. I’m now living on the river in Nashville, TN. So Suddenly Mortal…

Margo Davis: Poetry: August 2021
Poetry

Margo Davis: Poetry: August 2021

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My Southern Legitimacy Philosophy: The minute I cross the Louisiana border, strangers assume I’m a neighbor, distant relative, someone they know. Like I never left. Maybe it’s my brassy humor,…

Jay Sizemore: Poetry: August 2021
Poetry

Jay Sizemore: Poetry: August 2021

2021-08-012021-07-26

Southern Legitimacy? I was born and raised in Kentucky, which is south of Ohio, though a bit north of Tennessee. I think I have more southern cred than J.D. Vance,…

Craig Kenworthy: Poetry : August 2021
Poetry

Craig Kenworthy: Poetry : August 2021

2021-08-012021-07-26

Statement of Southern Legitimacy: My family came to North Carolina in the 1600’s. Then we got lost somehow and found ourselves in Iowa. (Still, it was southern Iowa). The U.S.…

Elizabeth Warner : Poetry : August 2021
Poetry

Elizabeth Warner : Poetry : August 2021

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Southern Legitimacy Statement: I was born in West Virginia. Torn between the northern and southern cultures in the United States, I grew up conflicted about my identity as a young…

Chad W. Lutz : Poetry : July 2021
Poetry

Chad W. Lutz : Poetry : July 2021

2021-07-012021-07-03

Southern Legitimacy Statement: Hope all is well. I’m writing to you from south North America, bottom cousin to our neighbors (Canada) to the north. I don’t know if that legitimizes…

Therese Beale: Poetry: July 2021
Poetry

Therese Beale: Poetry: July 2021

2021-07-012021-07-03

Southern Legitimacy Statement: I left Virginia more than 30 years ago to settle eventually in Seattle: “As far away from us as you can get!” my folks would say. Though…

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