From the current issue:
National Poetry Month at the Mule
April is National Poetry Month. And this year the Dead Mule has once again put together a diverse group of poets for its April issue. The Mule just keeps getting better and better, if I do say so myself.
Included in this issue (mostly in no particular order) are H. Dale Duke, who sent us a great poem; Tim Tomlinson, man of adventure, Brenda Kay Ledford, who’s annoyed by Yankees who correct her speech; S. Scott Whitaker, last in the Mule in the fall of 2007; poet and publisher Reb Livingston; Jessie Carty, who has a great new chapbook; Joseph Trombatore, a fifth generation Texan; Norman Cooper, also from Texas; Rosanne Osborne, who sent us four sonnets; Lisa Allender, a poet and actress from Atlanta and LA; Harry Calhoun, who’s in the Fundamental Mule ( so Harry was Mule before the I was a Mule); David Need, a poet and professor at Duke University; Melanie Faith, who “became southern” when she studied in Charlotte; Susan Washinsky, who entrusted the Mule with her first published poems—poems she’s tweaked for years; Corey Mesler, a poet with a famous book store; Shelby Stephenson, who sent us five poems from his new manuscript, and the third in our Poets Laureate Series, SC Poet Laureate Marjory Wentworth. The South is filled with the best poets in the nation. Enjoy.
4 comments:
Thanks for the plug, Kathryn. The Mule tries to be inclusive of all that is good about the south.
Valerie MacEwan started The Dead Mule School of Southern Literature in 1995 as a print magazine under a grant from the NC Arts Council before turning it into a we zine soon after. As she says, "The Mule does not discriminate but good taste and superb quality supercede all other criteria."
I joined the staff in 2006 as poetry co-editor and became poetry editor in 2007. We welcome submissions from writers all over the south.
Helen Losse
Thanks, Helen. I hope everyone who visits my blog will follow the link to Dead Mule's site and find out more about this e'zine and its history. And read the fine writing that's posted there.
Happy Poetry Month, dear Laureate! We celebrated the first weekend of the month with Pat Riviere-Seel, Carolyn Elkins and Linda Metzner at Accent on Books..and we are all considering making a sharing/poetry discussion a monthly event.
And thanks for introducing me to the Dead Mule. Thank all the gods for intelligent writing!
Thank you, Byron. I hope readers will click on your name and go to your website! Pat's new book is coming up soon on this blog.
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