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Volume 1, Edition 2
Fiction:
Robert Morgan, “The Ride”
George Singleton, “Why I Stopped Caring”
Mark Powell, excerpt from Cool Radiance
Eli Cranor, “The Plan Room”
Nathan Gower, excerpt from Don’t Go Unless You Mean It
Taylor Brown, “Old Man Howl”
Peter Farris, excerpts from Let Me Burn in Peace
Poetry:
Lynnell Edwards, “Native Grasses,” “I Could Just Stay in Bed,” and “Husband, Burn Pile”
Rosemary Royston, “Ode to the Ginger Man” and “Some days I play Barbies”
Clinton Waters, “Bouquet,” “Overthinking Matthew 5:29-30,” “Last Cicada Song,” and “Fruit”
Malcolm Glass, ekphrastic poems and photographs, “Appalachia,” “Country Boy,”
“Nowhere House,” and “E.T. Wickham’s Weathervane”
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Volume 1, Edition 1
Fiction:
Ron Rash, “The Cottage”
Sheldon Lee Compton, “Harm May’s Vegas Money”
Jennifer Kates, “Two Dresses”
William Gay, “Lillith”
Creative Non-fiction:
Ellen Morris Prewitt, “Poached Peaches,” excerpted from her memoir, Loving
My Hateful Ancestors: A Public Witness
Poetry:
Jesse Graves, “Sweet Apples in Late Summer,” “Never Measured,” “The Root and the Leaf,” “Like Eagles,” and “Agee: In Memoriam”
Gaylord Brewer, “No more of this softness. This kowtowing,” “Twelve shit-streaked eggs, never born,” “We submitted to the sovereignty of our chaos,” “I am Aries, my wife Libra, so when the horoscope,” and “No more reprieve”
David Tucker, “Walking Home from the Bar,” “Snow on the Nursing Home,” and “A Break in the Weather”
Jeff Hardin, “Good Boy,” “Another Day Than This One,” “Out In the County,” and “Backstory”
Interview:
Derrick Hill, with the late William Gay
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