Big Muddy 6.2

 


 

Cover Photo:

"Emerson Bridge" by Jake Wells


Cover Design:

Wade Christian

Editor:

Dr. Susan Swartwout 

 

Assistant Editors:

Wade Christian

Mandy Henley

 

Publishing Interns:

Barbara Jenkins

Freeman Fouts

Amanda Dunn

Chandra Howard

Katy Wehmeier


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Contents

 

Nonfiction

J. Malcolm Garcia, Kansas

Dear Mr. Titler

 

Louis E. Bourgeois, Mississippi

On Bayou Sauvage: The Life and Death of Jeanfreaux's Fishermen's Rest

 

Nathan J. Bolls, New Mexico

Sweet Potatoes

 

Sarah Miller, Mississippi

Shorty

 

Fiction


Mary Cantrell, Oklahoma

Gifts

 

R. M. Kinder

Bay at the Moon

 

Dennis Vannatta, Arkansas

Rag and Bone

 

Photography/Artwork


Gerald R. Wheeler, Texas

Auto 1

Auto 2

Flag Wings

Scooter Parade

Art Car Girls

Guard Dog

 

 

 

 

Reviews

Poetry


Jeannine Dobbs, New Hampshire

Looking for America

 

Frank Jamison, Tennessee

In an All Night Diner in Tennessee

 

John Cantey Knight, Louisiana

Valse de 'Cadien

 

J.T. Ledbetter, California

Mississippi Headwaters

 

Judson Simmons, New York

My Brother the Fisherman

 

Gerald R. Wheeler, Texas

Knucklehead

 

Harold Quinn, North Carolina

DeSoto Parish, 1938

 

Garland Strother, Louisiana

Radio Sermon

 

Fredrick Zydek, Nebraska

To Speak of Something Lonely

 

John Weber, Missouri

The Bridge Between

 

Terry Savoie, Iowa

Crossing the Centennial Bridge Spanning the Mississippi River, Iowa to Illinois

 

Robert Hamblin

Nevertheless


D. Benjamin Marxer reviews:

Barkan, Seth "Fingers" Flynn. Blue Wizard Is About to Die: Prose, Poems, and Emoto-Versatronic Expressionist Pieces About Video Games (1980–2003). Rusty Immelman P, 2004. Paper, 150 pp. $15. Poetry.

 

B.B. Jenkins reviews:

Marvin, Lee, and Jeffrey Skinner. Passing the Word: Writers on Their Mentors. Sarabande Books, 2001. Paper, 232 pp. $16.95. Nonfiction.

 

Anna-Marie Beard reviews:

De Luna, Blas Manuel. Bent to the Earth. Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2005. Paper, 64 pp. $13.95. Poetry.

 

Michele Metych reviews:

Hill, Robert. When All Is Said and Done. Graywolf Press, 2006. Paper, 220 pp. $20. Fiction.

 

Kris Yesley reviews:

Smoker, M.L. Another Attempt at Rescue. Hanging Loose Press, 2005. Paper, 64 pp. $14. Poetry.

 

John Weber reviews:

Shipley, Vivian. Hardboot: Poems New and Old. Louisiana Literature Press, 2005. Paper, 124 pp. $14.95. Poetry.

 

Tara Shoemaker reviews:

Lee, Ed-Bok. Real Karaoke People. New Rivers Press, 2005. Paper, 99 pp. $13.95. Poetry.

 

Warren D. Anderson reviews:

Garrison, Philip. Because I Don't Have Wings: Stories of Mexican Immigrant Life. University of Arizona Press, 2006. Paper, 149 pp. $16.95. Nonfiction.

 

Nicholas Bowden reviews:

Richards, Susan Starr. The Hanging in the Foaling Barn. Sarabande Books, 2006. Paper, 168 pp. $14.95. Short Fiction.

 

Susan Swartwout reviews:

Barnett, Mary Ann. The Invisible Girl Dresses Herself: Poems. Cicada Wing Books, 2006. Paper, 100 pp. $13.95. Poetry.

 

Dale Haskell reviews:

Heller, Steve. Father's Mechanical Universe. BkMk Press, University of Missouri-Kansas City, 2001. Paper, 100 pp. $13.95. Fiction.

 

Dale Haskell reviews:

James, Randy. Why Cows Learn Dutch and Other Secrets of Amish Farms. Kent State UP, 2005. Cloth, 180 pp. $24.95. Nonfiction.

 

Dale Haskell reviews:

Vivian, Robert. Cold Snap as Yearning. University of Nebraska Press, 2001. Paper, 150 pp. $13.95. Nonfiction.

 


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