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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

Gerard Sarnat: Poetry: April 2020

Southern Legitimacy Statement: Gerry who’s worked as a healthcare consultant...
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Poetry

Malcom Glass: Poetry: April 2020

Southern Legitimacy Statement: I’ve been cogitating Southern Lit for over...
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Fiction

James Roderick Burns: Fiction: April 2020

Southern Legitimacy Statement: Married to a woman from Ocilla, GA,...
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Poetry

Marianne Mersereau: Poetry : April 2020

Southern Legitimacy Statement: I was born in the Cumberland Mountains...
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Poetry

Cole Depuy: Poetry: April 2020

Southern Legitimacy Statement: I’ve lived at the margins for some...
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Fiction

Bryan Fontenot: Fiction: April 2020

My Southern Legitimacy Statement: I was born and grew up...
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Poetry

Jonathan Giles: Poetry: April 2020

My Southern legitimacy statement is as follows: I received a...
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Fiction

Anthony Picardi: Fiction: April 2020

My Southern Legitimacy Statement: I moved to a small farm...
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Essays

Joseph Gaines: Creative Non-Fiction: April 2020

Southern Legitimacy Statement: One hundred percent Southern. Born and bred...
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Poetry

Julie Whitehead: Poetry: April 2020

Southern Legitimacy Statement: Born and raised in Mississippi and never...
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Essays

Alex Pickens: Essay: April 2020

Southern Legitimacy Statement: Alex Pickens grew up in Southern Appalachia...
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Essays

Becky Meadows: Creative Non-Fiction: April 2020

Southern Legitimacy Statement: I am a farm girl who still...
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Essays

C. C. Crockett: Memoir: April 2020

Southern Legitimacy Statement: You can’t go much further south than...
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Fiction

Karen Toralba: Fiction : April 2020

Southern Legitimacy Statement: I hail from the Deep South–Hattiesburg, Mississippi....
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Essays

Anne Pinkerton: Memoir/Essay: March 2020

Southern Legitimacy Statement: Though I live in Massachusetts now, I...
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Fiction

Jade Woodridge : Fiction : March 2020

Southern Legitimacy Statement: Dad’s from New Orleans, my mother has...
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