Big Muddy 5.2

 


 

Cover Photo:

"Waiting for the Bride"

by Gerald Wheeler, Katy, Texas
(misprinted in the issue)

 

   

Cover Design:

Michael G. Howell

 

Editor:

Dr. Susan Swartwout 

 

Assistant Editors:

Michael G. Howell

Mandy Henley

 

Publishing Interns:

Ryan King

Kris Yesley

Wade Christian

Emily Eufinger

Alex Niswonger

Shawn McLain

Mary Eakins

 

Editorial Assistants:

Jon Thrower

Ben Foster

 

 


Back Issue


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Contents

 

Fiction


Tricia Dower, Toronto, Ontario

Disappearing Acts

 

Phil Harvey, Maryland

Track Meet

 

Ginger Hendricks, North Carolina 

The Creek Behind Our House

 

Paul Lewellan, Iowa

The Positive Side of T.K. McCoy

 

Russell McKee, Michigan

Archy and the Mules: An American Tall Tale

 

Robert J. Nelson, Nebraska

The Devil's Face

 

Robert D. Sutherland, Illinois

Point of Departure

 

Tim E. Walker, Kentucky

The Wave

 

John Weagley, Illinois

Twilight of the Fireflies

 

Mike Wendling, London, England

No Gas                          

 

Photography/Artwork


Carol Wheeler, Texas

Passion Vine

Variegated Hybiscus

Yellow Orchid

 

Gerald Wheeler, Texas

Yearling after Storm (misprinted in the issue)

 

Reviews

Poetry


Louis E. Bourgeois, Mississippi

End of Fishing Season on Bayou Sauvage

Walking      

 

Richard Broderick, Minnesota

On My 55th Birthday

Foggy Day on the Mississippi

 

Gail Rudd Entrekin, California

Snoring

Secrets

 

Patricia L. Hamilton, Tennessee

Southern Comfort 

 

Lois Beebe Hayna, Colorado

May Morning

 

 John Cantey Knight, Louisiana

Waiting to Be Astonished

 

Philip C. Kolin, Mississippi

The Last Transfers 

 

Elaine Fowler Palencia, Illinois

Illinois Skies

 

David Radavich, Illinois

Great Flood

 

Sherri Ryan, Kansas

Lantern 

 

J.D. Smith, Washington, DC

Post-Prairie  

 

Ryan G. Van Cleave, South Carolina

The Kudzu Queen

Confession #32   

 

 


John E. Miller reviews:

Blanke, David. Sowing the American Dream: How Consumer Culture Took Root in the Rural Midwest. Ohio University Press, 2000. Paper, 282 pp., $21.95. Nonfiction.

 

Joel Vinson reviews:

Harrison, Jim. True North. Atlantic Monthly Press, 2004. Cloth, 448 pp., $24. Fiction.

 

Michael G. Howell reviews:

Kooser, Ted. Delights and Shadows. Copper Canyon Press, 2004. Paper, 96 pp., $15. Poetry.

 

Laura DeJournett reviews:

Hoagland, Tony. What Narcissism Means to Me. Graywolf Press, 2003. Paper, 96 pp., $14. Poetry.

 

Jon Thrower reviews:

Hamblin, Robert. Mind the Gap: Poems by an American in London. Southeast Missouri State University Press, 2003. Paper, 95 pp., $12. Poetry.

 


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