“Our Nativity – 1970” by Dawn Wilson
(From the 2013 December issue of the Dead Mule. Truly...
Benjamin Scott: Travis, the First
Southern Legitimacy Statement: I was born in Dallas to a...
Ed Brickell: The Horned Toads Confront Their Young Human Captors
Southern Legitimacy Statement: I was born in Batesville, Arkansas and...
David Earl Williams: When She Dressed Up Nice
Southern Legitimacy Statement: I grew up at Greenup County in...
Lenny Lianne: When Rains Were Frog Chokers
My Southern Legitimacy Statement: I spent the first five-eighth of...
Christopher Lowe: Hashbrowns
Southern Legitimacy Statement: I spent my first 22 years in...
Claire Massey: Driver Side Window
Southern Legitimacy Statement: My grandparents’ Mississippi home was my port...
Cecile Dixon: Barlow
Southern Legitimacy Statement: I was jerked up by my hair,...
Jonathan Odell: The Language of Home
Southern Legitimacy Statement: Born and raised a white guy in...
David Stafford: Shoes
Southern Legitimacy Statement: Just doodling ’round during the pandemic and...
Jessica Weyer Bentley: Revival
Southern Legitimacy Statement: As with all volunteer vegetation, I was...
Kent Reichert: Requiem: For Those He Left Behind
Southern Legitimacy Statement: Los Angeles, CA and Belews Creek, NC...
Carol Parris Krauss: Poem
Southern Legitimacy Statement: I was born from two western NC...
James Rhine: Essay
Southern Legitimacy Statement: Having grown up in the Bible belt...
Jerry Hogan: Poetry
Southern Legitimacy Statement: I’m from Fayetteville, in Northwest Arkansas. Geographically,...


