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