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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.
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R. J. Roberts : Memoir : September 2020

Southern Legitimacy Statement: I speak with a muddled southern accent....
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Poetry

Thony Aiuppy : Poetry : September 2020

Southern Legitimacy Statement: Work, labor, and economy have been areas...
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Essays

Eric Creech : Memoir : September 2020

Southern Legitimacy Statement: I am a Kentucky boy who is...
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Dena Pruett: Essay : September 2020

Southern Legitimacy Statement | My Dad was born at the...
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Fiction

Scott Hutchison: Flash Fiction: September 2020

Southern Legitimacy Statement: I had a northerner ask me where...
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Fiction

Dave Swan : Fiction : September 2020

Southern Legitimacy Statement: Though I was born in upstate New...
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Essays

Jay Waters: What We Gonna Do : Essay : August 2020

Southern Legitimacy Statement — I was born, and have lived,...
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Poetry

Kristina Heflin: Poetry : August 2020

Southern Legitimacy Statement: Kristina Heflin spent her formative years hiking...
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Poetry

Kelly Jones: Three Poems : August 2020

Southern Legitimacy Statement: Kelly Jones hates the sound of cicadas...
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Essays

Mike Boyette : On Hoes and Hoeing : Essay: August 2020

Southern Legitimacy Statement: I was raised dirt poor on a...
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Essays

Jesus Lopez: Memoir : August 2020

The Witch, The Egg, and the Cure Imagine that you...
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Poetry

Daun Daemon: Two Poems : August 2020

Southern Legitimacy Statement Born and raised in Caldwell County, North...
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Ricardo Jose Gonzalez-Rothi :Creative Non-Fiction: August 2020

Southern Legitimacy statement(s): 1) I’m from further South than most...
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Poetry

Charlie Southerland: Poetry: August 2020

I’m Charlie Southerland. When you check up on me, you’ll...
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Poetry

Miriam Moore-Keish : Poetry : August 2020

Southern Legitimacy Statement: I was born in Atlanta, Georgia and...
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Fiction

Eugene Platt: Poetry : August 2020

Southern Legitimacy Statement: As proclaimed in the foreword of my...
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