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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.
The River of Strange

Photographs :: My Most Recent Walks :: Valerie MacEwan

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Fiction

Epiphany Ferrell :: The Amazing Chicken Man

Southern Legitimacy Statement: I live in Southern Illinois, emphasis on...
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Poetry

Danny Barbare :: Pisgah Mountain

Southern Legitimacy Statement: Basically, I’m 60, and I have never...
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Poetry

Ettore Cassetta :: Ghost Country

Southern Legitimacy Statement: My maternal grandfather was born in the...
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Creative Non-Fiction / Memoirs

Adrienne Pilon :: Roots

Southern Legitimacy Statement: I live pretty far south of the...
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Fiction

Lee Ann Sontheimer Murphy :: Home Again

Southern Legitimacy Statement: I am Southern by nature as well...
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Creative Non-Fiction / Memoirs

C.E. O’Banion :: Fire Ants

Southern Legitimacy Statement: Born and raised in East Texas, I’ve...
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Creative Non-Fiction / Memoirs

Anthony Picardi :: infection ::

Southern Legitimacy Statement I moved to a small farm on...
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Poetry

Richard Weaver: “In the Year of the Mullet”

Southern Legitimacy Statement: I was born on the same day...
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Poetry

May Jordan: “Walking Through”

Walking Through A Sunday lit with sunlightmade the mountainof snow...
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Poetry

Barbara Conrad: “This Bed”

This Bed I’m counting the years I’ve slept in this...
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Poetry

Paul Jones: “Hell”

About my Southernness: I am still Southern. The other day,...
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Poetry

David Kirby: “I’m Not the Person She Thinks You Are”

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

Dead Mule Submissions and more…

Hey ya’ll. I sent an email to those of you...
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Blog

What’s Your Label? Valerie MacEwan

I choose my label. “Writer” It’s rectangular. And temporary. I...
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Essays

Alexandra Melnick: Blade Running in the South

(Reprint from 2017 October Issue of the Dead Mule, seems...
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