Big Muddy 3.2

 


 

Cover Art:

"Sunflowers" is a digital photograph       

by Joel Ray, Cape Girardeau, Missouri


Cover Design:

Tim Baskin

Editor:

Dr. Susan Swartwout 

 

Assistant Editors:

Tim Baskin

Mandy Henley

 

Publishing Interns:

Kristine Hehner

Tonia Ems

 

Editorial Assistants:

Holly Raines

Gina Bader

Tom Eaton

 


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Contents

 

Nonfiction

Erin Altemus, Montana

Calling in the Cows

 

J. T. Ledbetter, California

The Great Palm Sunday Rat Kill

 

Poetry


Robert Bense, Pennsylvania

the Missouri

 

Nancy Hightower, Colorado

ritual

 

Tim Kidwell, Missouri

Sestina for a Lost Sister

 

John Cantey Knight, Louisiana

Pelicans

West Bank

 

Philip C. Kolin, Mississippi

September Edges

 

Michael D. Riley, Pennsylvania

Stakeout

 

Jon Thrower, Missouri

Riverwall

 

Sally Van Doren, Missouri

I Have Often Wondered

Union

 

Gerald Wheeler, Texas

Training Wheels

 

 

Reviews

Fiction


Brian Ames, Missouri

This Organization Must Keep Iowa's Roads Open

 

Charles Edward Brooks, Portugal

The Smoke of Ilium

                        

J. Dixon Hearne, California

White Trash Wedding

 

Gypsy Jostes, Missouri

In Quest of  "It"

                      

Mark Rigney, Indiana

The Good Underneath

 

E. B. Vandiver, California

laily

 

Sumner Wilson, Missouri

Washday

 

Linda Marie Young, North Carolina

Visitation at a Confederate Grave

 

Photography/Artwork


Susan Swartwout, Missouri

In the Garden District

Street Performer

Artist Michael Karim

Historic Collections Building

 

Gerald Wheeler, Texas

Drover and His Horse

Miss Hummingbird

1921 Dodge

Sad Vulture

Mural of a Poet

 


John Schell reviews:

Dobyns, Stephen. Eating Naked: Stories. Picador USA, 2001. Paper, 288 pp. $13. Short Fiction.

 

Matt Heger reviews:

Carbó, Nick. Secret Asian Man. Tia Chucha Press, 2000. Paper, 86 pp. $10.95. Fiction.

 

Gina Bader reviews:

Bukowski, Charles. Sifting through the Madness for the Word, the Line, the Way. HarperCollins, 2002. Hardcover, 395 pp. $27.50. Poetry

 

Leon Cluck reviews:

Allen, Dick. The Day Before. Sarabande Books, 2003. Paper, 115 pp. $12.95. Poetry.

 

Tiechera Samuell reviews:

Surowiecki, John. Watching Cartoons Before Attending a Funeral. White Pine Press, 2003. Paper, 88 pp. $14. Poetry.

 

Jason Sander reviews:

Wright, Carolyne. Season of Mangoes and Brainfire. Lynx House Press, 2000. Paper, 82 pp. $12.95. Poetry.

 

Kristine Hehner reviews:

Collins, Billy. Sailing Alone Around the Room: New and Selected Poems. Random House, 2002. Paper, 172 pp. $13.95. Poetry.

 

Ruth Seaber reviews:

Oliver, Mary. The Leaf and the Cloud. DaCapo, 2000. Paper, 55 pp. $14. Poetry.

 

Nikki Trokey reviews:

Katz, Joy. Fabulae. Southern Illinois University Press, 2002. Paper, 59 pp. $12.95. Poetry.

 

 


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