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The Dead Mule School of Southern Literature
April International Poetry Issue. No good [Southern] writing is complete without a dead mule. Established 1996.
The Dead Mule School of Southern Literature
April International Poetry Issue. No good [Southern] writing is complete without a dead mule. Established 1996.
Poetry

Heather Loudermilk :: Three Poems ::

Southern Legitimacy Statement: I come from West Virginia folks who...
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Poetry

Melanie McGehee :: Remember Me :: Three Poems ::

Southern Legitimacy Statement: Have you heard me talk? No. In...
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Flash Fiction

Michael Amos Cody :: Holy City Buskers ::

Southern Legitimacy Statement: I was born in Sumter, South Carolina,...
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Fiction

Matthew Cullifer :: The Big Bass ::

I’ve lived in the southwest corner of Georgia all of...
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Creative Non-Fiction / Memoirs

Harry Neil :: We Discover Cottage Cheese ::

Southern Legitimacy Statement: I was born in a very rural...
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Creative Non-Fiction / Memoirs

R. L. Frazier :: Timmy ::

Southern Legitimacy Statement: I grew up in a part of...
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Creative Non-Fiction / Memoirs

Matthew Bearden :: A Trip Through God’s Country ::

Southern Legitimacy Statement: I was born and raised in Palestine,...
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Poetry

Almyr L. Bump :: Quiet Splendor; Other Clay; A Harsh Reminder ::

I am a native of Dobson, North Carolina, so yes,...
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Poetry

Lisa Kosow :: Jerry Lee Lewis Pushes a Piano into the Ocean :: Three Poems ::

Southern Legitimacy Statement: I was born in the Blue Ridge...
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Flash Fiction

Trent Brown :: And I Was Afraid, Because I Was Naked, And I Hid Myself ::

Southern Legitimacy Statement: I was born and raised on a...
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Flash Fiction

Stephanie Katz :: Fiddler Crab Claws in the Moonlight ::

Southern Legitimacy Statement: I’ve spent my whole life living in...
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Fiction

Theresa Jones :: Hundred Dollar Shoes ::

Southern Legitimacy Statement: I was born and raised Roll Tide....
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Flash Fiction

Eleanor Levine :: Lurch ::

Southern Legitimacy Statement: I love the South and went to...
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Creative Non-Fiction / Memoirs

Ashley Elizabeth Hewitt :: Woodsia Lane ::

Southern Legitimacy Statement: Born in Jackson, Mississippi, I attended Millsaps...
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BlogThe River of Strange

What’s the Collard situation?

Are you Southern? Then you know what I’m talking about...
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Poetry

David Kirby :: My Hometown ::

Southern Legitimacy Statement: I spent the first twenty-four years of...
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