Cover Photo:
Holes made by the pileated woodpecker at Emiquon National Wildlife Refuge, Illinois, near the Spoon River’s mouth.
Photographed by Thomas V. Lerczak, April 21, 2008, with a Nikon 35 mm SLR.
Cover Design:
Caleb Tankersley
Big Muddy 9.1
Editor
Dr. Susan Swartwout
Assistant Editor
Mandy Henley
Marcia Herring
Publishing Interns
Caitlin Brown
Stacy Orris
Joshua Smith
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Maggie Walter
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Contents
Nonfiction
Margaret Dulaney, Pennsylvania
Carrie
Steven Faulkner, Virginia
Sand Bank
Dell F. Pendergrast, Virginia
Family Rifts
Blake Perkins, Arkansas
Race Relations in Western Lawrence County, Arkansas
C.R. Resetarits, New Jersey
Circling
Poetry
John M. Anderson, Massachusetts
Destroyer
Robin Carstensen, Oklahoma
When Asked to Write About Your Life
Noel Conneely, Ireland
York Street
John Cantey Knight, Louisiana
At Orpheus on Lundi Gras Night
Elaine Fowler Palencia, Illinois
Novel Instructions
Eclipse
Robert Nazarene, Missouri
The Glass
The Beast of Burdens
Jeff Schiff, Illinois
Psalm for a Murderous Time
Permission
Nathan Scott, Louisiana
Drifting Through the Filth on St. Charles and Wondering Where the Beads Go, Hungover on Ash Wednesday
Richard Sederstrom, Minnesota
My Grandfather’s Watch
Dan Stryk, Virginia
Fishing After Rain
Friendliness
Mark Taksa, California
Lifting from the Dusty Words
Toni Thomas, Oregon
Easy Hips
Jianqing Zheng, Mississippi
Nirvana
Fiction
Chris Drew, Wisconsin
Miller’s Field
Rebecca Hodge, North Carolina
River of Words
G.D. McFetridge, Montana
Oil Wells and Silver Perch
Laura McHugh, Missouri
Down the River Road
Jeremy Melvin, Illinois
Missing Love [complete version]
Brett Riley, Alabama
Golgotha
Photography/Artwork
Brett Taylor, Tennessee
The Woody Cemetery
Reviews
Matt Essner reviews:
Gaiman, Neil. M is for Magic. Harper Collins, 2008. Paper, 260 pp., $6.99. Fiction.
Marcia Herring reviews:
Matthews, Clay. Superfecta. Ghost Road Press, 2008. Paper, 81pp., $13.95. Poetry.
Leslie Loyd reviews:
Tweedy, Joanna Beth. The Yonder Side of Sass and Texas. Southeast Missouri University Press, 2009. Paper, 164 pp., $19. Fiction.
Benjamin Marxer reviews:
Yoon, Paul. Once the Shore. Sarabande Books, 2009. Paper, 280 pp., $15.95. Fiction.
Jeremy Thompson reviews:
Hamilton, Laurell K. Strange Candy. Berkley Books, 2007. Paper, 304 pp., $14. Fiction.
Frank X Walker reviews:
Tubbs, Stephanie Ambrose. Why Sacagawea Deserves the Day Off and Other Lessons from the Lewis & Clark Trail. University of Nebraska Press, 2008. Paper, 144 pp., $17.95. Nonfiction.