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Trent Brown :: And I Was Afraid, Because I Was Naked, And I Hid Myself ::
Southern Legitimacy Statement: I was born and raised on a farm in Cerro Gordo, North Carolina – a town of around 200-300 people you have almost certainly never heard of. The main attractions are: the Wikipedia description of the town’s...
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Stephanie Katz :: Fiddler Crab Claws in the Moonlight ::
Southern Legitimacy Statement: I’ve spent my whole life living in Florida on an island south of Tampa. My mother, who grew up in the southern tip of Ohio, wanted to raise me by the beach, baptized by salt and sun....
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Theresa Jones :: Hundred Dollar Shoes ::
Southern Legitimacy Statement: I was born and raised Roll Tide. I learned to cook with three spices: salt, pepper, and bacon fat. I was a young adult before I ever heard of barbecued beef. Barbecue sauce was white. In the...
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Eleanor Levine :: Lurch ::
Southern Legitimacy Statement: I love the South and went to Hollins University and received an MFA in Creative Writing in Roanoke, VA. While in Roanoke, I worked in a box factory, but was not very successful. They kicked me out...
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Ashley Elizabeth Hewitt :: Woodsia Lane ::
Southern Legitimacy Statement: Born in Jackson, Mississippi, I attended Millsaps College and more recently completed my MFA in Creative Writing at the Mississippi University for Women. I have lived in New Orleans for twenty years but built a log cabin...
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What’s the Collard situation?
Are you Southern? Then you know what I’m talking about here. Collards. The Collard Man, who sold his produce at the corner of Bridge Street and Third died this year. For months, a large white bow with a lovely silk floral...
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David Kirby :: My Hometown ::
Southern Legitimacy Statement: I spent the first twenty-four years of my life in the South, so when I started looking for jobs, I decided I’d live anywhere but. I ended up with five job offers, all in Southern cities. I remember...
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Rory Squires :: A Love Letter to Humanity ::
SLS: My mother’s extended family originated in West Virginia, so half of the family has accents. While I live in Pennsylvania, I can still point out and label the southern states, and I adore the Waffle House. *Ya’ll need to...
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Kayla Branstetter :: Changing Directions ::
Southern Legitimacy Statement: On your website, you stated “Let the bitter past be studied–not re-lived.” “Changing Directions” mirrors that southern attitude because Tony allowed me to interview her about her bitter past for others to study in hopes they will...
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Christopher S. Bell :: Stream ::
Southern Legitimacy Statement: My South is steam rising up from the lake water and a wealth of abandoned antiquieties sitting on shelves, thier paint slowly fading from the heat. It’s an empty space that flakes like skin and haunts from...
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Raymond Berthelot :: Three Poems ::
And of course I’m a Southern writer geographically, and socially I’d imagine. Somebody has got to be on the outside, and if I am to be out, I’d rather be South of out. Three Poems Absences We’ll cook the black...
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Cynthia Gilmore :: My Boobs at Sixty ::
Southern Legitimacy Statement: I moved south kicking and screaming in 2015 with my partner, a leg man. He stalks women on the balmy South Carolina coast where I left him, while I’ve made a peaceful home in the mountains of...
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David Newdorf :: Amor vincit omnia ::
I was born, raised, educated, married, raised kids, and divorced south of the Mason Dixon line — just a few thousand miles away on the the West Coast. At other times, I’ve lived in South Florida, partied in NOLA, been...
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David VanDevelder :: A Requiem for Grandmother Tree ::
Southern Legitimacy Statement: We were a prototypical southern nuclear family. My Papaw came up in the Great Smokey Mountains, near Farner, Tennessee and Cherokee, North Carolina. When he was nine, he lost track of the time one summer evening, squirrel...
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K. L. Johnson :: All Saints Day Savannah; In the Sandhills; Walking With my Ex’s Mother ::
Southern Legitimacy Statement: I’m an army brat, but grew up in South Carolina, the state that’s too small to be a republic and too big to be an insane asylum according to the politician James Louis Pettigru. I tend to...
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Lucas Zuehl :: Emily ::
Southern Legitimacy Statement: I used to live in Texas, and it was the only place in the US where people would come up and talk to me without selling me something. Emily A low banging pulses throughout her head. At...
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The Dead Mule Podcast
Life is but a dream. A dream within a dream. The October issue is online for the most part. There remain a few chapbook reviews left to publish and they’ll be available soon. Big news: I attended an extensive workshop...
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Leo Coffey :: Gutted ::
Southern Legitimacy Statement: I was born and raised in a small community in Western North Carolina. I come from a long line of trade workers, musicians, and storytellers. The South is my home. Gutted The glow of the moon overhead...
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Susan Pepper Robbins :: Fred Speaks at Last ::
My Southern Legitimacy Statement is this: I have lived in rural Virginia for 75 years and seen the public schools integrated, the white flight schools close and some Confederate Statues come down. I love the good parts of the South:...
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Frankie Franco :: Finding and Fulfilling Our Purpose Right Where We Are ::
My Southern Legitimacy Statement is that my Grandpa on one side was born in Oklahoma before it was a state and my Grandma on the other side was born in Mexico. That’s pretty far South if you ask me! I’m...
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Hillbilly Dada Poetry :: David Earl Williams’ chapbook ::
One Night at a Time a review by B. Lynn Zika The cover of David Earl Williams’ chapbook started me grinning. Everybody Lives Here One Night at a Time. Hillbilly Dada Poetry?! Wow. Himmerschmezitz. If you trace language poetry and...
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P. A. Knight :: La-Z-Boy ::
Southern Legitimacy Statement: I was born in Richmond, Virginia and still live there. My momma was from Franklin County and grew up on bootleg money. My daddy’s from Johnson City, Tennessee. When it’s warm I try to jump in the...
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Kenneth M. Kapp :: Bragging Rights ::
Southern Legitimacy Statement: I’ve been in the south. Got shot at running rural streets in Raleigh, NC; ran free on the levees in New Orleans. Love Faulkner. Parents & in-laws retired in Florida. Almost died from fire ants in Tarpon...
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Ray Whitaker :: Three Poems for October ::
My Southern Legitimacy Statement: After moving west, I find that I to this day, compare things out here in Big Sky country to standards set by having lived in North Carolina for a lot of my life…. truly I do...
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Edward Michael Supranowicz :: A Hundred years From Now ::
Legit: I actually like grits and okra and somewhat understand the everyday despair in Faulkner. A Hundred years From Now There had been 10 pandemics since the first. There also had been two World Wars, 6 race wars, and 3...