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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.
Fiction

“Our Nativity – 1970” by Dawn Wilson

(From the 2013 December issue of the Dead Mule. Truly...
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Fiction

Benjamin Scott: Travis, the First

Southern Legitimacy Statement: I was born in Dallas to a...
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Poetry

Ed Brickell: The Horned Toads Confront Their Young Human Captors

Southern Legitimacy Statement: I was born in Batesville, Arkansas and...
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Poetry

David Earl Williams: When She Dressed Up Nice

Southern Legitimacy Statement: I grew up at Greenup County in...
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Poetry

Lenny Lianne: When Rains Were Frog Chokers

My Southern Legitimacy Statement: I spent the first five-eighth of...
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Fiction

Christopher Lowe: Hashbrowns

Southern Legitimacy Statement: I spent my first 22 years in...
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Poetry

Claire Massey: Driver Side Window

Southern Legitimacy Statement: My grandparents’ Mississippi home was my port...
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Blog

Looking for new hosting…

Well, to be honest, I’ve had it with GoDaddy. The...
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Fiction

Cecile Dixon: Barlow

Southern Legitimacy Statement: I was jerked up by my hair,...
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Essays

Jonathan Odell: The Language of Home

Southern Legitimacy Statement: Born and raised a white guy in...
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Fiction

David Stafford: Shoes

Southern Legitimacy Statement: Just doodling ’round during the pandemic and...
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Poetry

Jessica Weyer Bentley: Revival

Southern Legitimacy Statement: As with all volunteer vegetation, I was...
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Poetry

Kent Reichert: Requiem: For Those He Left Behind

Southern Legitimacy Statement: Los Angeles, CA and Belews Creek, NC...
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Poetry

Carol Parris Krauss: Poem

Southern Legitimacy Statement: I was born from two western NC...
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Essays

James Rhine: Essay

Southern Legitimacy Statement: Having grown up in the Bible belt...
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Poetry

Jerry Hogan: Poetry

Southern Legitimacy Statement: I’m from Fayetteville, in Northwest Arkansas. Geographically,...
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