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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

Parker Logan: Poetry: April 2021

Southern Legitimacy Statement: Though the son of a Wedding DJ...
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Fiction

Juan Cruz: Fiction: April 2021

Southern Legitimacy Statement: I was born in Bogotá, Colombia. I...
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Fiction

Gaylynne Robinson: Flash Fiction: April 2021

Southern Legitimacy Statement: It’s the language around me that reminds...
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Essays

Lisa Taylor: Creative Non-Fiction: April 2021

Southern Legitimacy Statement: I was born north of the Mason-Dixon...
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Essays

Joan Baker: Memoir: April 2021

Southern Legitimacy Statement: I grew up in New York with...
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Fiction

David Stafford: Fiction: April 2021

Southern Legitimacy Statement: Last time I told ya’ll bout the...
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Fiction

Brandi Pillow: Fiction: April 2021

Southern Legitimacy Statement: I am a Mississippian, born in the...
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Essays

Joseph Leverette: Memoir: April 2021

Southern Legitimacy Statement: Proud as a peacock to be truly...
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Poetry

Rebecca Baggett: Poetry: April 2021

Southern Legitimacy Statement: What could be more Southern than a...
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Poetry

Michelle Renee Hoppe: Poetry: April 2021

Southern Legitimacy Statement: Michelle Renee Hoppe is south of Jordan...
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Fiction

Sheree Shatsky: Flash Fiction: April 2021

Southern Legitimacy Statement: I’m so Southern, my Ancestry profile predicted...
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Fiction

Graham Marema: Fiction: April 2021

Southern Legitimacy Statement: When I was a kid, I told...
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Poetry

Carl “Papa” Palmer: Poetry: April 2021

Southern Legitimacy Statement: Carl “Papa” Palmer of Old Mill Road...
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BlogEssays

April 2021

This month features poetry, fiction, creative non-fiction, essays, memoirs and...
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Essays

George Bandy : Memoir : March 2021

Southern Legitimacy Statement: I’ve lived all of my life south...
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Essays

Richard F. Hamm: Essay: March 2021

My Southern Legitimacy originates with water. In 1963, my father...
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