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Big Muddy 12.1
Editor
Dr. Susan Swartwout
Assistant Editor
Katherine Markey
Rhyen Campbell
Publishing Interns
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Contents
2011 Contest Winners
Scott Kauffman, California
Cat Dance
Patrick Finney, Missouri
Attending a Wake Filled With Strangers
Non-Fiction
Philip Kolin
“A river flows through it”: Tennessee Williams and the Mighty Mississippi
Gaynell Gavin
At the River’s Bend: Highway, Library, Airplane, Prairie
Patrick Dorey
Orb Weaver
Fiction
Vic Viola
“There Ain’t No Fish in Mud Crick”
Dixon Hearne
Going Up North
Reine Dugas Bouton
Blackberry Pie
Mark T. Mustian
The Ride
Orman Day
A Roadway in the Dusk
Dennis Vannatta
Peaceable Kingdom
Ron Rindo
The Fall Garden
Brendan West-Moreland
Hot Wheels for Jesus
Poetry
William Miller
Recovering Biker
Appomattox, 2007
Chris Hayes
Red Paint Hill
John J. Ronan
Santa Anita Noir
John A. McDermott
Another Poem About Bix, Based Perhaps Upon Apocrypha
Harvey J. Baine
Buffalo Fish
John F. Buckley and Martin Ott
The Wet Lands of Florida
C.D. Albin
Marooned
Blessed Those Days
Kathleen Kirk
Goodwill
Jacob Newberry
After Katrina
Amorak Huey
Liturgy
A.D. Winans
Chinatown Sweat Shop
Jianqing Zheng
Years in China
Bourbon Street
Martin Ott
Zen and the Art of Interrogation
Amelia Martens
Lincoln at his 200th Birthday Party
Nicole Peats
Your Eyes: This Is Why I Said You Scared Me
Pat Durmon
Looking at Herself in the Mirror
James Valvis
After the Accident, I Carve Allen’s Pumpkin
Jim Daniels
Substitute Facts
Britton Shurley
The Thing About Death
John Grey
Your Wilderness
Nathan Whiting
A Brooklyn Inlet, Early June
Randy Blythe
Black Racer
Lowell Jaeger
Okay
Michael D. Riley
Elephants
Molly’s Arrival
David Radavich
Afternoon
Christopher Shipman
At the Museum of Natural Science
Paul Freidinger
Rough
Vanessa Blakeslee
Bookstore
Darrell Epp
The Mongol Invasions
Reviews
Airek Beauchamp reviews:
Crews, James. The Book of What Stays. U of Nebraska Press, 2011, 96pp. Paper: $17.95
Joshua de Vries reviews:
Grennan, Eamon. Out of Sight: New and Selected Poems. Graywolf Press, 2010. 272 pp. Hardcover: $26.00
Emily Reinitz reviews:
Everett, Percival. Swimming Swimmers Swimming. Red Hen Press, 2011. 72 pp. Paper: $15.95
Keith A. Sculle reviews:
Berger, Molly W. Hotel Dreams: Luxury, Technology, and Urban Ambition in America, 1829-1929. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011. Hardback, 318 pp. $60.00
Rachel Evans reviews:
Hacikyan, Agop J., and Jean-Yves Soucy. A Summer Without Dawn. Interlink Books, 2010. 548 pp. Paper: $20.00
Matthew Sissom reviews:
Berryhill, Michael. The Trials of Eroy Brown. University of Texas Press, 2011. 239 pp. Hardcover: $29.95.
Nicholas Miranda reviews:
Simpson, Jeff. Vertical Hold. Steel Toe Books, 2011. 88pp. Paper: $12.00.
Sam DeWald reviews:
Dickey, Paul. They Say This is How Death Came into the World. Mayapple Press, 2011. 73 pp. Paper: $14.95.