SPRING 2012
SPECIAL FEATURE
Two-fers/Twofers
Martha G. Wiseman In the Flesh
Mary Clearman Blew Leaving Duck Creek (essay) and Forby and the
Mayan Maidens (fiction)
Ronald Sharp Making Friends, and the Book of Friendship, with Eudora Welty (essay)
Fenton Johnson Eudora Welty: All Serious Daring Starts from Within (essay)
Robert Morgan Left Behind; Decoration Day; and Living Tree (poems)
Jesse Graves The More Mysterious: An Interview with Robert Morgan
Neil Carpathios In Praise of Surrealism and In Praise of the Ordinary (poems)
William Johnson Voice in the Whirlwind (essay)
Elizabeth Dodd Isogloss: Language and Legacy on Mount St. Helens (essay)
Maxine Kumin Mourners, Onlookers, Gawkers (poem)
David Starkey In the Lion’s Cage (poem)
FICTION
Darrell Spencer Squeeze Me, I Sing
POETRY
Natasha Trethewey Mythology
Bruce Bond Proud Flesh
Kathryn Stripling Byer Easter Afternoon
Julie Suk We’re Small on the Rim
Hunt Hawkins Words Fail the Winning Athlete and The News from Poetry
Daniel Hoffman Siren Song
ART
Kael Alford Bottom of da Boot: Losing the Coast of Louisiana
(photographs and commentary)
REVIEWS
Greg Johnson It’s All in the Details (on Charles Baxter’s Gryphon: New and
Selected Stories; Ann Packer’s Swim Back to Me; Ernest J. Finney’s
Sequoia Gardens: California Stories; Phillip Sterling’s In Which Brief Stories
Are Told; and Amina Gautier’s At-Risk)
Kevin Clark All Possible Worlds (on Josie Sigler’s Living Must Bury; Harmony
Holiday’s Negro League Baseball; David Clewell’s Taken Somehow by
Surprise; Kathleen Graber’s The Eternal City; and Maxine Scates’s Undone)
