Cover Print:
Old Nauvoo, Illinois
—from the collection of Stephen Gregg,
S. Gregg Gallery, Cape Girardeau, Missouri
Big Muddy 1.1
Editor
Dr. Susan Swartwout
Research Assistant
Dan Crocker
Publishing Interns
Dustin Michael
Jon Thrower
Editorial Assistants
Derek Borgsmiller
Leon Cluck
M'Lee Fife
Katie Gilbert
Emily Main
Lester Sneed
Katherine Mayer
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Contents
Nonfiction
Katherine Fischer, Iowa
Sho-gunning the Mississippi
Dan Guillory, Illinois
Big Easy: A Childhood of New Orleans
Roald Tweet, Illinois
Poe and Oquawka
Mary Lincoln’s Body
Kelby Ouchley, Louisiana
Tributary Affair
Fiction
John Mort, Missouri
Behind Enemy Lines
Ann Boaden, Illinois
Dancing Lessons
Photography/Artwork
Emily Otto, Louisiana
The Natchez at New Orleans
Frank L. Snider Sr., Missouri
Chain of Rocks Canal and Bridge
Towboats Together
Poetry
Jim Elledge, Illinois
Horror Autotoxicus
Bo Hall, Illinois
A Prayer for Western Kentucky
Jane Holwerda, Missouri
Elvis the King
Colleen J. McElroy, Washington
Nostalgia
What Happened to the Rabbit
Marlene J. Miller, Missouri
Mississippi Passing
Roger Mitchell, Indiana
Repairman
Middle of the Street
Naming the Grasses
Bill Stobb, Wisconsin
The Fourth Word Is Edenic
Reviews
Curt Leitz reviews:
Brunner, Dorie. Down the Mississippi with Stinky Two Women, a Canoe, and a Kitten. Prairie Oak Press, 2000. 136 pp. with photographs. Nonfiction.
Daniel Crocker reviews:
Lavalle, Victor D. slapboxing with jesus. Vintage Contemporaries, 1999. $11. Short Fiction.
Tonya Wells reviews:
Gilfillan, Merrill. Grasshopper Falls. Hanging Loose Press, 2000. 96 pp. Cloth, $21. Paper, $13. Short Fiction.
Clay Matthews reviews:
Ponte, Antonio Jose. In the Cold of the Malecon. City Lights Books, 2000. 127 pp. Paper, $10.95. Short fiction.
MJ Mills reviews:
Proulx, Annie. Close Range. Scribner, 1999. 285 pp. Paper, $13. Short fiction.
Rebecca Brown reviews:
Saunders, George. Pastoralia: Corporate America at its Worst and Funniest. Riverhead Books, 2000. 188 pp. Cloth, $22.95. Short Fiction.
Tonya Wells reviews:
Hagy, Alyson. Graveyard of the Atlantic. Graywolf Press, 2000. 186 pp. Paper, $14. Short Fiction.
Leon Cluck reviews:
Jones, Stephen Graham. The Fast Red Road, A Plainsong. Fiction Collective Two, 326 pp. $13.95. Fiction.
Susan Swartwout reviews:
Mort, John. Soldier in Paradise. Southern Methodist University Press. 180 pp. $19.95. Fiction.
Susan Swartwout reviews:
Herrera, Juan Felipe. Loteria Cards and Fortune Poems: A Book of Lives. City Lights Press. 209 pp. Cloth, $15.95. Poetry.