Big Muddy 11.2
Editor
Dr. Susan Swartwout
Assistant Editor
Donna J. Essner
Rhyen Campbell
Publishing Interns
Rachael Evans
Nicholas Miranda
Matthew Sissom
Graduate Assistants
Caity Read
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Contents
Non-Fiction
Lisa Knopp, Nebraska
Painting the River: Henry Lewis’s Great National Work
Fiction
Jan Bowman, Maryland
After the Rain
Richard Dokey, California
Mr. Hunolt’s Coat
Logan Garrels, Missouri
Floaters
Jacqueline Guidry, Missouri
Maps
Mickey Heath, Missouri
Little Boy Blue and the Man on the Moon
Billie Louise Jones, Arkansas
Port Bon Temps
G.D. McFetridge, Montana
Trinity Whitewater
Jacquelyn Milan
Nobody But Me
Susie Potter, North Carolina
Saying Bye to Sam Bob
Justin St. Clair, Alabama
Eat Your Fried Mush: The Curious Case of Wee Willie Shantz
Joe Sacksteder, Michigan
Portage des Morts
Ryan Stone, Illinois
Play For Us
Poetry
Jean Berrett, Wisconsin
Density
David Bond, Illinois
Local Phenomenon
House and Contents
Renee Emerson, Kentucky
What Will Keep
Phillip Howerton, Arkansas
Moon Shot, July 1969
Christopher Kuhl, Illinois
The Killing Fields
William Kyle, Missouri
Please Go, Bring Her Back
Eric Lee, Florida
Ode to Loneliness
Michael O. Marberry, Alabama
Hired Hands
The Field
Sucker
Andrew McFadyen-Ketchum, California
Winters, We Watch the Snow Descend Slowly
Errol Miller, Louisiana
Saturday Night at Billy Bob’s
E.I. Pruitt, Missouri
Tokens
Adult Children Anonymous
Jenny McRoby, Kentucky
Pear
José Antonio Rodríguez, New York
Figs
The Professor Speaks of Language
Sheila Sanderson, Arizona
“Only One Place To Be: Hell or Kentucky”
Cattails
Jean-Mark Sens, Louisiana
On Fridges
Mark Taksa, California
Reversing The Iron Hug
Sally Van Doren, Missouri
Driving
The Lengthening
Reviews
Airek Beuchamp reviews:
Emanuel, Lynn. Noose and Hook. U of Pittsburgh Press, 2010. Paper, 72 pp., $14.95. Poetry.
Rhyen Campbell reviews:
Jack, Zachary Michael. Homer Croy―Corn Country Travel Writing, Literary Journalism, Memoir. Tall Corn Books, imprint of Ice Cube Books, 2010. Paper, 274 pp., $24.95. Non-fiction.
Katherine Easter reviews:
Collins, Floyd. What Harvest. Somondoco Press, 2011. Paper, 63 pp. $15. Poetry.
Plattner, Andrew. A Marriage of Convenience. BkMkPress, 2011. Paper, 180 pp., $15.95. Fiction.
Katelyn Hansell reviews:
Winegarden, Mary. The Translator’s Sister: Poems. Mayapple Press, 2011. Paper, 81 pp., $14.95. Poems.
Matthew Long reviews:
Hausman, Blake M. Riding the Trail of Tears. U of Nebraska Press, 2011. Paper, 384 pp., $24.95. Non-fiction.
Young, Dean. The Art of Recklessness: Poetry As Assertive Force and Contradiction. Graywolf Press, 2010. Paper, 184 pp., $12. Poetry.
Katherine Markey reviews:
Stone, Ryan. Best Road Yet. Press53, 2010. Paper, 174 pp., $14.95. Fiction.
Nathan Reynolds reviews:
Toomey, John. Sleepwalker. Dalkey Archive Press, 2010. Paper, 262 pp., $13.95. Fiction.
Emily Seagraves reviews:
Hamblin, Robert. Crossroads: Poems of a Mississippi Childhood. Time Being Books, 2010. Paper, 123 pp., $15.95. Poetry.