Big Muddy 8.2

 


 

Cover Photos:

Front cover- Rebecca Moore,   

          Rebecca Moore Photography

Back cover-Rebecca Moore,

        Rebecca Moore Photography


Cover Design:

Matthew Long

Editor:

Dr. Susan Swartwout 

 

Assistant Editors:

Mandy Henley

Jennifer Hotop

 

Publishing Interns:

      Serena Beam

      Lauren Ditter

      Lindsey Holman

      Matthew Long

      Kylie Maxcy

      Michelle Ogden

 

Editorial Assistant:

Donna Essner

 

 


Back Issue


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Contents
 

Nonfiction

Glynn Custred, California

 Vincennes, the Wabash and the Course of Global Empire in the Mississippi Valley in the Eighteenth Century

 

Susan Kates, Oklahoma

Girls in the Ring

 

Peter Nolan, Illinois

Jim Crow at the Abraham Lincoln Hotel: The Corneal Davis Story

 

 

Poetry


Walter Bargen, Missouri

How Deep the Knife is Deep

Military Surplus, Lexington, MO

 

James Crews, California

A Guide to Ice Fishing--Lake Monona, Wisconsin

 

Jeannine Dobbs, New Hampshire

Profoundly Moved

 

Katherine Jennings, Missouri

Goodbye at Harvest

 

George Looney, Pennsylvania

An Ephemeral Epic Written Absentmindedly

Listening to a Scratched Recording of Bird's "Lover Man"

The Indignity of Being Forgotten

 

David Radavich, Illinois

Liberty Island, 2008

 

Richard Sederstrom, Minnesota

Photos in the Practical Season

Redstart

 

  Jean-Mark Sens, Louisiana

River Talk

 

  Roger Singer, New York

Moving Water

 

  Michael Skau, Nebraska

Claude Johnson at the Auction

 

  Mark Wisniewski, New York

Bob

 

       

Reviews

Fiction


Edgar Omar Aviles

Translated by Toshiya Kamei, Arkansas

Indocumentado (Undocumented)

 

Matt Baker, Arkansas

Man And Wife

 

Sarah Fruchtnicht, New York

Charity

 

Jeremy Melvin, Illinois

       Missing Love

 

John Sirmans, Georgia

       Hog Killing

 

 

Mighty River Short Story Contest Winner

JoAnn Bren Guernsey, Minnesota

Fort Defiance

 

Wilda Hearne Flash Fiction Contest Winner

Shannon Barton Wren, California

San Diego, 1978

 

 

Photography/Artwork


Gerald R. Wheeler, Texas

Keep Your Eye on the Ball

 

 


Danielle Schlosser reviews:

D'Agostino, James. Nude With Anything. New Issues Poetry and Prose, 2006. Paper, 79 pp., $14. Poetry.

 

David Scott reviews:

Dandicat, Edwidge. The Dew Breaker. Vintage Contemporaries, 2005. Paper, 244 pp., $12.95. Fiction.

 

Susan Swartwout reviews:

Fisher, Carol. The American Cookbook. MacFarland, 2006. Paper, 260 pp., $39.95. Nonfiction.

 

Courtney Shalon reviews:

Kercheval, Jesse Lee. The Alice Stories. University of Nebraska Press, 2007. Cloth, 227 pp. $24.95. Fiction.

 

Sonja Davis reviews:

Sneve, Virginia Driving Hawk. The Chichi Hoohoo Bogeyman. 2nd Ed. University of Nebraska Press, 2008. Paper, 64 pp. $9.95. Fiction.

 

Johannah Froemsdorf reviews:

Urrea, Luis Alberto. Six Kinds of Sky: A Collection of Short Fiction. Cinco Puntos Press, 2002. Paper, 148 pp., $14. Poetry.

 

Marcia Herring reviews:

Van Winickel, Nance. No Starling. University of Washington Press, 2007. Paper, 67 pp., $12.95. Poetry.

 

Keith Sculle reviews:

Wright, Alan Terry. Murder on Rouse Hill. Southeast Missouri State University Press, 2007. Paper, 452 pp., $19. Historical Fiction.

 


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