Winter 2017: Vol. 45, Issue 1

CONTENTS

Editor’s Note by Jason Kyle Howard

FICTION

Leah Hampton
Sparkle 

Michael Croley
Last Light 

CREATIVE NONFICTION

Bill King
Trout Flashes

Courtney Balestier
The Poetry of Pepperoni Rolls by Courtney Balestier

POETRY

Warner James Ward
Alimony 
And I remember it now 
First Saturday of Spring
Moon Song

George Ella Lyon
When
March 28, 1941

Jay Kidd
Spring

Gail Tyson
Unlikely Pairings
Reading Together

Morgan Blalock
On Listening to My Father Sing
Where the Next Poem Is

Amy McCleese Nichols
Passing Through 
Cave Run Lake

Maren O. Mitchell
Tree Watching 

Marcia Hurlow
Interior with Window 

Thomas Alan Holmes
Ruts 

Mark Vogel
Ashamed at what I need

Tasha Cotter
Daughters in Wonderland 

V.C. McCabe
Seafarers 
The Parting Glass

SPECIAL FEATURE: HUNTING RITES

Ryan Kauffman
Buckshot

Ben Groner III
Northern Mississippi

Alice Martin
Accidents 

INTERVIEW

Julie Hensley by Jason Kyle Howard

CRAFT ESSAY

C. Williams
Little Shop of Writing by C. Williams

BOOK REVIEWS

Donna M. Crow
Night Garden by Carrie Mullins