Big Muddy 12.2
Editor
Dr. Susan Swartwout
Assistant Editor
Amanda Meyer
Caity Rogers
Publishing Interns
Adam Armstrong
Samantha Carano
Elizabeth Enoch
Jennifer Geist
Cory Troske
Marcie Upchurch
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Contents
Non-Fiction
Lisa Knopp
Mississippi Harvest
Donna L. Shrum
The Life and Death of the B.P. Cheney
Kevin Koch
Home Fire
Fiction
Patrick VandenBussche
Just Dad’s Kids
Casey Pycior
The Current
Bradley Cook
The Gift
Dusty Richards
A Long Ways From Home
Leon Anderson
Northern Men
Brad Hooper
Aunt Kate’s Possibility
William Jablonsky
Leviathan
Poetry
Jill Reid
I hate to wash the Mississippi out
Tim Leach
Narcissus Over Morning Coffee
Greg Moglia
Colic
Sandy Longhorn
Cornfield, USA II
James Valvis
Homes
Charles Jensen
The Tattoo Artist’s Confession
Robert Tremmel
The Boots
Angie Macri
Running Buffalo Clover
Sandra M. Castillo
Exposures
Justin Hamm
In Case You Were Wondering
Caroline Collins
Hunger
Evening
Trina Gaynon
Along the Tracks, After the Last Train Runs
Carolyn Miller
Something She Said
Jesse DeLong
Caught
Dixon Hearne
We Thrive
Doug Ramspeck
The Tattoo Artist Dreams His Wife Returns
Adam Love
Cemetary
Liz Young
Day Lilies
Vapor Rising
Stanley Morris Noah
deja vu is like a pinball machine
Jeff Hardin
Morning Porch
Damon Falke
Photograph of a Young Girl Standing in the Family Plot
Travis Mossotti
Elegy for the Mississippi
Dupo
Mark Vogel
The Story of Mud
Heather Dobbins
The Sweet Drunk’s Wife 1935
Richard Luftig
The Old Cemetery
Steven Ray Smith
Ambrosia and devilled eggs
Gerry Grubbs
Sometimes in the Evening
Don Boes
On the Anniversary of the Beginning of War
Mark Poor
Whale Domination
Jack Vian
Standing in the Commissary Line
Jon Densford
Horseshoe Lake
Reviews
Keith A. Sculle reviews:
Bluestone, Daniel. Buildings, Landscapes, and Memory: Case Studies in Historic Preservation. W.W. Norton and Company, 2011. Cloth, 302 pp., $47.95.
Breanna Bright reviews:
Chaon, Dan, Norah Lind, and Phong Nguyen, eds. Nancy Hale: On the Life and Work of a Lost American Master. Pleiades Press, 2012. Paper, 217 pp., $12.99
Matthew Sissom reviews:
Riche, Robert. Days Like These. Plain View Press, 2011. Paper, 103 pp., $14.95
Rhyen Campbell reviews:
Wayne, Jane O. The Other Place You Live. Mayapple Press, 2010. Paper, 75 pp., $14.95.
Marcie Upchurch reviews:
Kolin, Philip C. Reading God’s Handwriting: Poems. Kaufmann Publishing, 2012. Cloth, 105 pp., $16.95.
Marcie Upchurch reviews:
Skloot, Floyd. The Wink of the Zenith. University of Nebraska Press, 2008. Paper, 231 pp., $16.95.
Jennifer Geist reviews:
Buckley, John F., and Martin Ott. Poet’s Guide to America. Brooklyn Arts Press, 2012. Paper, 114 pp., $14.95.
Elizabeth Enochs reviews:
Petterson, Per. It’s Fine By Me. Graywolf Press, 2012. Cloth, 199 pp., $22.00.
Kris Baranovic reviews:
Bolen, Dennis. Anticipated Results. Arsenal Pulp Press, 2011. Paper, 239 pp., $15.95.
Amanda Meyer reviews:
Bernheimer, Kate. Horse, Flower, Bird. Coffee House Press, 2010. 208 pp., Paper, $14.95.
Caleb Tankersley reviews:
Trueblood, Valerie. Marry or Burn. Counterpoint Press, 2010. Paper, 294 pp., $15.95.
Sarah Vohsen reviews:
Powell, Lawrence N. The Accidental City: Improvising New Orleans. Harvard University Press, 2012. 359 pp., Cloth, $29.95.
Katelyn Hansell reviews:
Wood, Henry. Edited by Michael Fedo. A Sawdust Heart: My Vaudeville Life in Medicine and Tent Shows. University of Minnesota Press, 2011. Paper, 129 pp., $16.95.
Katelyn Hansell reviews:
Seeley, Tracy. My Ruby Slippers: The Road Back to Kansas. University of Nebraska Press, 2011. Paper, 185 pp., $15.95.
Katherine Markey reviews:
Gatore, Gilbert. The Past Ahead. Indiana University Press, 2012. Paper, 138 pp., $18.99
Cory Troske reviews:
Diamond, Judy. World of Viruses. University of Nebraska Press, 2012. 82 pp., Paper, $16.95.
Rachael Evans reviews:
Salter, John R. Jackson, Mississippi: An American Chronicle of Struggle and Schism. University of Nebraska Press, 2011. 248 pp., Paper, $18.95.