Summer 2020: Vol. 48, Issue 3

CONTENTS

Editor’s Note by Jason Kyle Howard

FICTION

Mark Powell
Market Forces

Sheila R. Lamb
The Spring

CREATIVE NONFICTION

Kathleen Driskell
Keats In Your Time of Pandemic

Angela Jackson-Brown
Where Have All the Safety Pins Gone?

POETRY

Jason B. Crawford
Untitled 3 (Tanna)
Ghouls
Elephant in the Burning Dress
Orchard

Ansel Elkins
The Race Bone

John Q. Mars
honey boy, honey boy
a pedagogical love
Hoochstroke

Benjamin Cutler
The River
Elegies of Gathering
Self-Portrait as Fly Fisherman
Devil’s Walking Stick

Emry Trantham
Carolina Parakeet
Lakeside
The White Moth
Touch Me Not

Laura Long
Hope Is a Thing Before Feathers

Eileen Elizabeth
Damson

Melva Sue Priddy
What I Couldn’t Give Her
The Kitchen, Empty

INTERVIEW

Ansel Elkins by Jason Kyle Howard

CRAFT ESSAY

Jessie van Eerden
This Present Absence: The Generative Power of Epistolary Form

BOOK REVIEWS

At the Center of All Beauty: Solitude and the Creative Life (Fenton Johnson) by Jayne Moore Waldrop

The Giver of Stars (Jojo Moyes) & The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek (Kim Michele Richardson) by Donna M. Crow

Fatherless: A Memoir (Keith Maillard) by Katie Mitchell

COVER PHOTOGRAPH

Satsumas With Leaves by Amanda Greene