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Big Muddy 8.2
Editor
Dr. Susan Swartwout
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Contents
Nonfiction
Glynn Custred, California
Vincennes, the Wabash and the Course of Global Empire in the Mississippi Valley in the Eighteenth Century
Susan Kates, Oklahoma
Girls in the Ring
Peter Nolan, Illinois
Jim Crow at the Abraham Lincoln Hotel: The Corneal Davis Story
Poetry
Walter Bargen, Missouri
How Deep the Knife is Deep
Military Surplus, Lexington, MO
James Crews, California
A Guide to Ice Fishing–Lake Monona, Wisconsin
Jeannine Dobbs, New Hampshire
Profoundly Moved
Katherine Jennings, Missouri
Goodbye at Harvest
George Looney, Pennsylvania
An Ephemeral Epic Written Absentmindedly
Listening to a Scratched Recording of Bird’s “Lover Man”
The Indignity of Being Forgotten
David Radavich, Illinois
Liberty Island, 2008
Richard Sederstrom, Minnesota
Photos in the Practical Season
Redstart
Jean-Mark Sens, Louisiana
River Talk
Roger Singer, New York
Moving Water
Michael Skau, Nebraska
Claude Johnson at the Auction
Mark Wisniewski, New York
Bob
Fiction
Edgar Omar Aviles
Translated by Toshiya Kamei, Arkansas
Indocumentado (Undocumented)
Matt Baker, Arkansas
Man And Wife
Sarah Fruchtnicht, New York
Charity
Jeremy Melvin, Illinois
Missing Love
John Sirmans, Georgia
Hog Killing
Mighty River Short Story Contest Winner
JoAnn Bren Guernsey, Minnesota
Fort Defiance
Wilda Hearne Flash Fiction Contest Winner
Shannon Barton Wren, California
San Diego, 1978
Photography/Artwork
Gerald R. Wheeler, Texas
Keep Your Eye on the Ball
Reviews
Danielle Schlosser reviews:
D’Agostino, James. Nude With Anything. New Issues Poetry and Prose, 2006. Paper, 79 pp., $14. Poetry.
David Scott reviews:
Dandicat, Edwidge. The Dew Breaker. Vintage Contemporaries, 2005. Paper, 244 pp., $12.95. Fiction.
Susan Swartwout reviews:
Fisher, Carol. The American Cookbook. MacFarland, 2006. Paper, 260 pp., $39.95. Nonfiction.
Courtney Shalon reviews:
Kercheval, Jesse Lee. The Alice Stories. University of Nebraska Press, 2007. Cloth, 227 pp. $24.95. Fiction.
Sonja Davis reviews:
Sneve, Virginia Driving Hawk. The Chichi Hoohoo Bogeyman. 2nd Ed. University of Nebraska Press, 2008. Paper, 64 pp. $9.95. Fiction.
Johannah Froemsdorf reviews:
Urrea, Luis Alberto. Six Kinds of Sky: A Collection of Short Fiction. Cinco Puntos Press, 2002. Paper, 148 pp., $14. Poetry.
Marcia Herring reviews:
Van Winckel, Nance. No Starling. University of Washington Press, 2007. Paper, 67 pp., $12.95. Poetry.
Keith Sculle reviews:
Wright, Alan Terry. Murder on Rouse Hill. Southeast Missouri State University Press, 2007. Paper, 452 pp., $19. Historical Fiction.