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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

Robert Plumlee: Fiction: June 2021

Southern Legitimacy Statement: I was raised in Dallas Texas but...
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Poetry

Kamil Czyz: Poetry: June 2021

Not a southern legitimacy statement, but a statement nonetheless: I...
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Poetry

Jeffrey Miller: Poetry: June 2021

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

Benjamin Nash : Poetry: June 2021

Southern Legitimacy Statement: My family has lived in the south...
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Fiction

Daniel Hybner: Fiction: June 2021

Southern Legitimacy Statement: Texas born. Texas raised. Anyone not born...
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Poetry

Virginia Craighill : Poetry: June 2021

Southern Legitimacy Statement: A native Atlantan (not many of those)...
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Poetry

Jennifer Davis Michael: Poetry: June 2021

Southern Legitimacy Statement: My parents are both Mississippians. My grandfather,...
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Poetry

James Huneycutt: Poetry: June 2021

Southern Legitimacy Statement: I was born in Confederacy’s Capitol Richmond,...
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Poetry

Forrest Rapier: Poetry: June 2021

Southern Legitimacy Statement: Coming from Florida, I am no stranger...
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Poetry

Pam Watts: Poetry: June 2021

Southern Legitimacy Statement: My family came here the year before...
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Essays

Jessica Sabo: Memoir: June 2021

Southern Legitimacy Statement: I am a southern transplant, having lived...
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Fiction

Lynn D. Smith: Fiction: June 2021

Southern Legitimacy Statement: I was born in Augusta Georgia, in...
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Poetry

Will Justice Drake: Poetry: June 2021

Southern Legitimacy Statement: I grew up in north Alabama, where...
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Fiction

Ronnie Sirmans: Fiction: May 2021

Southern Legitimacy Statement: Southern Legitimacy Statement: I was born and...
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Fiction

Thomas Elson: Flash Fiction: May 2021

Southern Legitimacy Statement: I see a funeral, a widow, her...
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Essays

Claire Fullerton: Essay: May 2021

Southern Legitimacy Statement: There’s nothing that steeps a Southerner in...
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