Dead Mule

… the mule is coming back, we loaded the newest Mule issues here on thedeadmule.wordpress.com and we’re pretty skippy proud … More

Memoirs on the Dead Mule

The Dead Mule speaks in many voices. Mule Essays lead the mind into myriad swamps of distant memories or new … More

New Editors Chosen for the Dead Mule

Our new Poetry Editor is … drum roll please Denise K. James. Read her 2012 poetry on the Mule by clicking … More

September Fiction and All

One week left before the Dead Mule publishes its October 2016 issue. Get your fill of September this week and … More

New Fiction and Essays for August 2016

We’ve got some damn fine fiction here for August. Sit back and read for a spell. You know, been thinking … More

Mule writer Kevin Winter publishes book of Short Stories

Check out Kevin Winter’s new short story collection “A Place We All Know: A Collection of Short Stories”

Pyramid Schemes and Multi-Level Marketing

Testimony on “Oversight of the SEC’s Division of Enforcement” Read the entire testimony by clicking on the title. Andrew Ceresney, … More

What is the south coming to?

Help the best of “The South” stay as is. Let the bitter past be studied — not re-lived — and let us not seek to destroy a unique culture.

Hey yall, we’re still here…

The Mule is still kicking but she’s a bit stable weary this month. We’re restoring databases from 2007 and then … More

Made it through the holidays …

I find more and more that the stories surround, and revolve around, the joys that are grand-kids. Having six of said creatures I have plenty of raw material to choose from. I also congratulate myself on not killing their mothers when they were teenagers, although I was sorely tempted at times.

Photographs for November 2013

This month’s photos come from the Library of Congress. They belong to you and me. While many of us take … More

Photo on the Cover of our October Issue by Al Lyons

What a wonderful photo, eh?

September 2013 is complete!

It’s not officially Fall but it sure is a great day out there in eastern NC. How about yall? Everyone ok?

Poetry Submissions

I hope Ed has his wheat all in before this rain.

Online and On Time

I don’t know what that means but it sounds good — doesn’t it? On time. For a literary journal, “on … More

Valerie MacEwan: Matthew Rose and “The Letters”

Recasting the throw-aways and detritus, the overheard and misspelled, the artist has fashioned a large expository drama that serves as fragmented window into our collective Zeitgeist. Sex, love, death, politics, aesthetics and the muddled semiotics of our age all find a place in this body of work and beckon the viewer to read, decipher and unravel. The pieces in The Letters resonate with an enigmatic poetic presence. The result is a significant body of work by an important American artist…

100 Writers x 100 Stories

Volume One of Dead Mule Fiction.

April – May front page and links

April – May 2013: Twenty-Eight Poets featuring Joseph Bathanti NC Poet Laureate 2012-2014 Two Original Poems Written in Celebration of Poetry at … More

Paranoia by Joseph Finder, movie to be released Aug 16th

About mid-way through this Mule’s life, I worked for Popmatters.com as the Books Editor. We had around 70 critics in … More

April Writer Spotlight – Robert Klein Engler and a bit more…

This month’s poetry rises above the pocosin and flies over our heads toward the astral plain. Having North Carolina’s poet … More

In Loving Memory

* * The 2013 April (Poetry Month) Issue of the Dead Mule is dedicated to the memory of Elsie R. … More

February and March 2013

New works

Poetry Contest and MORE by The Writer’s Workshop of Asheville

The Writers’ Workshop is holding its Annual Writers’ Retreat May 16-19 at Folly Beach (near Charleston, SC) – an ideal place to relax, write and review each other’s work. Click to read more about the Workshop’s upcoming events.