Spring 2017: Vol. 45, Issue 2

CONTENTS

Editor’s Note by Jason Kyle Howard

FICTION

T.M. Williams
Murmuration

Michael Gray
Neighborly

Stephen Brown
Planned Development

CREATIVE NONFICTION

Rebecca Schamore
Trains

Janet S. Holloway
The Letters

Micah McCrary
A Natural American

POETRY

William Kelley Woolfitt
Glassworks Hot Room as Pentecostal Church
Another Sighting 
Dirty Power 
Pinon Time

Samantha Cole
Love of the Word
With Nothing or No One in Between
Lesson in Wearing Heels, 1994 

Julia Campbell Johnson
Starting Out Together in West Virginia 
Running Away
Full Moon, Black Night 

Joseph Bathanti
Day Lily

Larry D. Thacker
Trapdoor Spring

Annie Woodford
Snake Cane

Luke Marinac
Accumulation 
The dog warms one of my blue feet 

Kevin D. LeMaster
Deep Sky

Noel Smith
Keepsake

Charles Cantrell
No Animal Afterlife 

Philip Belcher
Aviary 

Lori Gravley
Playing Forever

INTERVIEW

Connie May Fowler by Katherine Scott Crawford

CRAFT ESSAY

Scott Honeycutt
Up on the Ridge: Charles Wright’s Childhood Home in Kingsport, Tennessee by Scott Honeycutt

BOOK REVIEWS

Katherine Scott Crawford
A Million Fragile Bones by Connie May Fowler

John Lang
One Man’s Dark by Maurice Manning