CONTENTS

Editor’s Note by Jason Kyle Howard

FEATURED AUTHOR: Maurice Manning

The Tall Book
The Truth on Three Lick Creek 
Little Grey Feather Tinged with Red or Blood
People of Sensibility
Reading a Book in the Woods
Love Poem
The Way 
Sublimity
Chicken Bristle
An Iron Ring Fastened to a Rail in the Barn
Why I Am Not a Stoic 
Wallace Stevens: Hillbilly Deluxe 

FICTION

Deborah Reed Downing
Fish and Wildlife

Jeffrey Helton
This Must Be the Place

Charlotte Morgan
My Side

CREATIVE NONFICTION

Jessie van Eerden
Yoke

Sean Patrick Hill
A Country of Edges

POETRY

Emily Hancock
Here
Walking Into Winter

Jacob Strautmann
The Leap
The Boy and the Rafter
Monongahela, Allegheny Coal Field

Jimmy Long
Styling My Hair, I Dream of Ben Franklin

Br. Paul Quenon
Hay Roll Calving

Allison Thorpe
Study in Empty Bottles
And Then There Were Tomatoes

Catherine Moore
Halfway Between NYC and Miami

INTERVIEW

Maurice Manning by Marianne Worthington

BOOK REVIEWS

Emily Masters
Eyes Glowing at the Edge of the Woods by Laura Long & Doug Van Gundy, Eds.