Big Muddy 1.1

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cover Print:

Old Nauvoo, Illinois                   

—from the collection of Stephen Gregg,
S. Gregg Gallery, Cape Girardeau, Missouri

Editor:

Dr. Susan Swartwout 

 

Research Assistant:

Dan Crocker

 

Publishing Interns:

Dustin Michael

Jon Thrower

 

Editorial Assistants:

Derek Borgsmiller

Leon Cluck

M'Lee Fife

Katie Gilbert

Emily Main

Lester Sneed

Katherine Mayer


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Contents

Nonfiction

Katherine Fischer, Iowa

Sho-gunning the Mississippi

 

Dan Guillory, Illinois

Big Easy: A Childhood of New Orleans

 

Roald Tweet, Illinois

Poe and Oquawka

Mary Lincoln's Body

 

Kelby Ouchley, Louisiana

Tributary Affair

 

Fiction


John Mort, Missouri

Behind Enemy Lines

 

Ann Boaden, Illinois

Dancing Lessons


 

Photography/Artwork


Emily Otto, Louisiana

The Natchez at New Orleans

 

Frank L. Snider Sr., Missouri

Chain of Rocks Canal and Bridge

Towboats Together 

 


Reviews

Poetry

Jim Elledge, Illinois

Horror Autotoxicus

 

Bo Hall, Illinois

A Prayer for Western Kentucky

 

Jane Holwerda, Missouri

Elvis the King 

 

Colleen J. McElroy, Washington

Nostalgia

What Happened to the Rabbit

 

Marlene J. Miller, Missouri

Mississippi Passing

 

Roger Mitchell, Indiana

Repairman       

Middle of the Street

Naming the Grasses

 

Bill Stobb, Wisconsin

The Fourth Word Is Edenic

 

Curt Leitz reviews:

Brunner, Dorie. Down the Mississippi with Stinky Two Women, a Canoe, and a Kitten. Prairie Oak Press, 2000. 136 pp. with photographs. Nonfiction.

 

Daniel Crocker reviews:

Lavalle, Victor D. slapboxing with jesus. Vintage Contemporaries, 1999. $11. Short Fiction.

 

Tonya Wells reviews:

Gilfillan, Merrill. Grasshopper Falls. Hanging Loose Press, 2000. 96 pp. Cloth, $21. Paper, $13. Short Fiction.

 

Clay Matthews reviews:

Ponte, Antonio Jose. In the Cold of the Malecon. City Lights Books, 2000. 127 pp. Paper, $10.95. Short fiction.

 

MJ Mills reviews:

Proulx, Annie. Close Range. Scribner, 1999. 285 pp. Paper, $13. Short fiction.

 

Rebecca Brown reviews:

Saunders, George. Pastoralia: Corporate America at its Worst and Funniest. Riverhead Books, 2000. 188 pp. Cloth, $22.95. Short Fiction.

 

Tonya Wells reviews:

Hagy, Alyson. Graveyard of the Atlantic. Graywolf Press, 2000. 186 pp. Paper, $14. Short Fiction.

 

Leon Cluck reviews:

Jones, Stephen Graham. The Fast Red Road, A Plainsong. Fiction Collective Two, 326 pp. $13.95. Fiction.

 

Susan Swartwout reviews:

Mort, John. Soldier in Paradise. Southern Methodist University Press. 180 pp. $19.95. Fiction.

 

Susan Swartwout reviews:

Herrera, Juan Felipe. Loteria Cards and Fortune Poems: A Book of Lives. City Lights Press. 209 pp. Cloth, $15.95. Poetry.

 


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