Big Muddy 2.2
Editor
Dr. Susan Swartwout
Assistant Editor
Dan Crocker
Mary Jane Mills
Publishing Interns
Mandy Henley
M'Lee Fife
Amy Kay
Editorial Assistants
Leonna Essner
Leon Cluck
Amy Kay
Kristi Murray
Emily Wipfler
Mandy Henley
Gina Bader
Mackey Smith
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Contents
Nonfiction
Stephen Lyons, Illinois
Dispatch from Illinois’ Great Snake Migration
Clobert Bernard Broussard, California
Boy: Up from the Bayou
Robert Kneib, Missouri
Of Wooden Johnboats
Maria Szasz, New Mexico
The Irreplaceable Sergeant John Ordway
D. Smith, Illinois
My Coronation
Lynn Morrow, Missouri
St. Louisans at the Knobel: Sport Tourism and Conservation in Arkansas
Fiction
Stephen Graham Jones, Texas
Southern Gothic
Ann Boaden, Illinois
Dancing Lessons
Photography/Artwork
Lynette Baca, Kansas
Historic Mulvane Jail through Window
Historic Mulvane Jail through Broken Door
Gerald R. Wheeler, Texas
Farm House
Grandpa’s RV
School Bus
Poetry
Malaika Favorite, Georgia
Mississippi
River Preacher
Day of Ascension
Richard Newman, Missouri
Salem, Indiana, 1963
Claire T Feild, Alabama
Damease
Beverly Rainbolt, Louisiana
Looking for Leadbelly’s Bones
Melissa Gurley Bancks, Missouri
Haunting in Louisiana
John Cantey Knight, Louisiana
It Hasn’t Rained for Two Weeks
Richard Broderick, Minnesota
To the Old Ones
Let Us Gather by the River
Ryan G. Van Cleave, Wisconsin
Psalm of Summer’s Amnesia
T. Ledbetter, California
In Turley’s Woods
Susan Grigsby, Missouri
Sudden Truths Avoided
Letters Sent in Faith
Corinne Lee, Texas
Captured
Alana Merritt Mahaffey, Arkansas
In Lookback Time
Llewellyn McKernian, West Virginia
Now and Forever by the Mississippi
Leslie Adrienne Miller, Minnesota
Easter Flood, 2001
Louis Daniel Brodsky, Missouri
Kudzu
Going to a Colloquium at Ole Miss, 1982
A Renewal of Faith
David Radavich, Illinois
Land Between the Rivers
Jill Ozier, Iowa
To a Fisherman, After Years
Terry Savoie, Iowa
Almost a Vacation
Joanne Seltzer, New York
Mardi Gras
Barging the Louisiana Bayous
Bo Hall, New Mexico
MawMawClaw
Kristine A. Somerville, Missouri
Most Beautiful
Reviews
Joel Rhodes reviews:
Watts, Edward. An American Colony: Regionalism and the Roots of Midwestern Culture. Ohio University Press, 2002. 278 pp. $55. Nonfiction.
Ryan Harper reviews:
Dan Jaffe. Playing the Word: Jazz Poems. BkMk Press, 2002. 80 pp. $13.95. Poetry.
Clay Matthews reviews:
Rios, Alberto. The Smallest Muscle in the Human Body. Copper Canyon Press, 2002. 103 pp. $14. Poetry.
David M. Taylor reviews:
Cortez, Jayne. Jazz Fan Looks Back. Hanging Loose Press, 2002. 115 pp. $14. Poetry.
Mandy Henley reviews:
Gottlieb, Daphne. Why Things Burn. Soft Skull Press, 2001. 125 pp. $12. Poetry.
Emily E. Wipfler reviews:
Hunt, Laird. The Impossibly. Coffee House Press, 2001. 265 pp. $23.95. Fiction.
Amy Kay reviews:
Huston, Nancy. Dolce Agonia: A Novel. Steerforth Press, 2001. Fiction.
Leon Cluck reviews:
Papaleo, Joseph. Italian Stories. Dalkey Archive Press, 2002. 298 pp. $13.95. Short Fiction.
Thomas Eaton reviews:
White, Curtis. Requiem. Dalkey Archive Press, 2001. $13.95. Fiction.
Mandy Henley reviews:
Caponegro, Mary. The Complexities of Intimacy. Coffee House Press, 2001. Paper, 233 pp. $14.95. Short Fiction.
Leonna Essner reviews:
Coberly, Lenore McComas. The Handywoman Stories. Swallow Press/ Ohio University Press, 2002. 165 pp. $16.95. Short Fiction.