Terry Barr : Southern Bastards: Questioning Our Legitimacy
Southern Legitimacy Statement: As a boy in Bessemer, Alabama, I lived for Mondays for they were new comic book days. I’d head to the Stop and Shop on 4th Avenue in hopes that a new Batman, Detective, Justice League, or...
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Southern Legitimacy Statement: Editor of online literary journal featuring southern writing since 1996. I have 2 yard dogs and one indoor dog. My Mama made a fresh pitcher of sweet tea every day of the week and two pitchers on...
Marsha Owens: Secret Gifts (memoir)
Southern Legitimacy Statement: Born in Richmond, VA, I’ve made it my forever home. My paternal grandpa was a waterman on the Chesapeake Bay, and to this day, I’m a seafood snob. I married an ex-Amishman to whom all things Southern...
Jane Blanchard: Five Poems
Legitimacy Statement: Native to Virginia and long-resident in Georgia, I’m as Southern as Southern can be. (Let’s not talk about the seven-year stretch in New Jersey.) A prominent Mid-Western poet once told me during a workshop, “I could listen to...
A. R. Robins: Late (micro fiction)
Southern Legitimacy Statement: I’ve lived in about every area of Missouri a person can mange to live, beginning in Gentry County, about two hours north Kansas City and ending up in Bollinger County, about two hours south of St Louis. I...
Adam Van Winkle: Snake In the Chicken Coop (fiction)
Southern Legitimacy Statement : Adam Van Winkle was born and raised in Texoma on both sides of the Oklahoma-Texas border and fried okra is one his favorite things on earth… Snake In The Chicken Coop “I told a lot of...
Dan Leach’s Floods and Fires (book discussion)
Southern Legitimacy Statement: “Families will not be broken. Curse and expel them, send their children wandering, drown them in floods and fires, and old women will makes songs of all these sorrows and sit on the porch and sing them...
Ted Harrison: The Kincaid Boys In Search of Mistletoe (essay/memoir)
Southern Legacy Statement: Being raised in the South means you have a certain perspective on things. (Oh, I’m sure people from other parts of the country feel the same way, but stick with me here.) I have visited Washington—the state and...
Jay Edge: Grandmother Ate Cornbread From a Glass of Milk (memoir)
Southern Legitimacy Statement: My name is Jay Edge and I’ve been drawing & writing ever since I remember. The thing I remember most as a kid in the NC piedmont was roaming the woods behind my grandparent’s home. I’d sew...
Gail White: Revisiting New Orleans (Poetry)
Southern Legitimacy Statement: Born in Florida, I’ve lived in Louisiana since 1976, 17 years in New Orleans, the rest in Cajun country. South Louisiana is strange even by Southern standards: We think Mardi Gras is a national holiday, that a Catlick...
CL Bledsoe: Interview with poet Wil Gibson
According to his website, https://wilgibson.com/, Wil Gibson is “a white trash poet.” I first came to know of his work when he reached out to me several years ago after discovering we were from the same small town in Arkansas....
Lis Anna-Langston: The Way You Come To The Writing Life (memoir)
Southern Legitimacy Statement: Born in the South she loves writing about misfits, screw ups, outlaws and people who generally don’t fit into nicely labeled boxes. The Way You Come to the Writing Life You think it’s all about write the words,...
Wendy Carlisle: Poetry (five poems)
Southern Legitimacy Statement: I have been here before and so will not redundify you with tales of my Florida childhood my young womanhood West Virginia and in Maryland. I’ll go right to Arkansas where I began living in 1972/3 and where I’ve...
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