Essays

Sara Garland: Memoir : May 2020

Southern Legitimacy Statement: I grew up in a small farming town in Northeast Arkansas a mere seven miles south of the Missouri border. As a child, I would marvel at how quickly the accents changed once crossing the state line....
Poetry

Jonathan Claybourne: Poetry: May 2020

Southern Legitimacy Statement: Lives in my town! Can’t get much more southern than that. Jonathan is a consummate writer and a wonderful gardener. He’s been southern all his life.   A COVID-19 Halloween  Out there: No pale horse Or long,...
Fiction

Laura Pinhey: Fiction : May 2020

Southern Legitimacy Statement: My hometown straddles the bleeding northern edge of the South. The Mason-Dixon line runs directly through it; on the map, that line is a rut carved jagged in the earth. Step to one side, you’re in the...
Essays

Everyone Wears A Nametag – Valerie MacEwan

Southern Legitimacy Statement: My yard dogs are polite and only bark when strangers walking by neglect them and forget to speak to them. The voices of people I've never met will waft up to the second story windows of my home, "Hello there, everything okay today? How ya' doing? Sweet pups. Nice pups ... "
Poetry

Virginia Lee: Poetry: April 2020

Southern Legitimacy Statement: Virginia Lee does not consider herself a poet, but she can write a decent set of song lyrics when the wind is just right and the moon’s phase is amenable. Lee mostly writes colloquial fiction set in...
Blog

The April Mule 2020

Well, we’re all in this together, aren’t we folks? Spend a little time away from the humdrum here on the Mule and read your way into some alternate reality. If you’re reading the Mule for the first or the fiftieth...
Poetry

Savannah Wade: Poetry: April 2020

Southern Legitimacy Statement: I lived my entire childhood under the shadow of the Brushy Mountains in Western North Carolina. I lived in a farmhouse built in 1897 or so that was bought by my great great grandmother Pearl who was...