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Issue 84, Spring 2014

“I received Flannery O’Connor’s Prayer Journal while in residence at the Sewanee Summer Writers’ Conference. I carried the galley around with me for a week, the book always in my backpack. Flannery O’Connor’s prayers. Flannery O’Connor’s prayers.” — Jamie Quatro, “The Sound Before the Song”

Essays by Steve Featherstone, Rachel Monroe, John T. Edge, Courtney Balestier, Kate Sweeney, and more. Fiction by C.E. Morgan. Poetry by Rebecca Gayle Howell. Photographs by Maude Schuyler Clay.







POINTS SOUTH


Drowning Deer, by Jim Minick

Five poems, by Rebecca Gayle Howell

Remembering the Relocation, by Keith O'Brien

Where Books Fall Open, by James Seay

Deep Blue Sea, by Kate Sweeney

Delta Dogs, photographs by Maude Schuyler Clay

Mr. Blue, by Mark Lane

Visions of Coahoma, by Nathan Salsburg

King of the Bean People, by Courtney Balestier

Hail Dayton, by Rachael Maddux

Local Fare: The State of the Broth, by  John T. Edge

FEATURES


Snakelandia: The Great Florida Python Hunt
by Steve Featherstone

Spinning Steel Into Gold
by Ginger Dellenbaugh

Fire Behavior
by Rachel Monroe

My Friend, Nothing is in Vain
A story by C. E. Morgan

OMNIVORE


The Sound Before the Song
Flannery O'Connor's Prayer Journal
by Jamie Quatro

What We Share
The stories of Elizabeth Spencer
by William Giraldi

Cooking with Chris:
Chicken Eggs
by Chris Offutt

 

Art by: Benjy Russell, Holly Andres, Melissa Ann Pinney, McNair Evans, Greg Westfall, Joe Leavenworth, Fabian Häusermann, Alexis Vasilikos, Maude Schuyler Clay, Lara Shipley, Allison V. Smith, Aaron Cohen, Tammy Mercure, David Hilliard, Steve Featherstone, Tom Martin, Jody Fausett, Tom Chambers, Eleanor Davis, Kathleen Robbins, Jenny Gummersall

Cover: “Portrait of Stacy Kranitz in Dowelltown, Tennessee” by Benji Russell