Fall 2018: Vol. 46, Issue 4
CONTENTS
Editor’s Note by Jason Kyle Howard
FEATURED POETS: THE NATURALISTS
Albert Stewart
Cumberland Waters
Llewellyn McKernan
Stream
Irene McKinney
Dark Rain
Crystal Wilkinson
Terrain
Richard Hague
Luna Moth
Jeff Daniel Marion
The Man Who Loved Hummingbirds
Maurice Manning
Reading a Book in the Woods
Louise McNeill
The Three Ferns
Marilou Awiakta
Dying Back
Ron Rash
My Cousin Digs My Father’s Grave
Jeff Mann
Yellow-Eye Beans
doris davenport
hog killing time
Maggie Anderson
Kissing the Ripe Tomatoes
Marc Harshman
Not All That Much
Annie Woodford
Blue Tick Mongrel, Pacing the Pittsylvania Line
Ron Houchin
Discovering I Was and Was Not Alone
Jane Hicks
Paradise Regained
Elaine Fowler Palencia
The Caryatids of Appalachia
James Still
Mine is a Wide Estate
FICTION
Julia Hogan
This Is Where I’d Start Again
Gary Thomas Smith
The Elk
CREATIVE NONFICTION
Kelly A. Dorgan
Black Ribbons
Monic Ductan
Fantasy Worlds
POETRY
Crystal Wilkinson
Letters to the Asylum 1, 2, 3
Rick Mulkey
Explicating Bluefield
Brandie Gray
Big Lick: A Litany
Tomboy
Marc Harshman
I Come to the Garden Alone
Praxis
Jenn Blair
Our Men
Edward Mullins’s Last Confession
Mayday
Ron Houchin
Painting Paper Airplanes
INTERVIEW
Emily Masters
Sally Rubin
BOOK REVIEWS
Emily Masters
Their Houses by Meredith Sue Willis
James Owens
Specter Mountain by Jesse Graves & William Wright
COVER PHOTOGRAPH
LW Photography