Winter 2002 | Volume 54.1
JOSEPH O’MALLEY
Proof | 9
DEBRA S. LEVY
Snow | 79
W.T. PFEFFERLE
Jimi Hendrix, Break Maker | 84
POETRY
SETH ZIMMERMAN
Rounded Bays (translated from the Russian of Osip Mandelstam) | 6
JENNIFER FRANKLIN
Winter Ash | 7
J.T. CAVENDER
Sharecroppers: Hinds County, Mississippi, 1939 | 8
PAUL HOSTOVSKY
Flowers | 60
Not the End of the World | 61
CLARE FEILD
The Jug Band | 82
INTERVIEW
GEORGE HOVIS
An Interview with Lee Smith and Hal Crowther | 62
REVIEWS
TARA POWELL
Quarters | 88
LYNNELL EDWARDS
The Evening Light | 91
TARA POWELL
Introduction | 22
DORIS BETTS
An excerpt from Who Is Sylvia? | 24
ELIZABETH EVANS
Doris Betts: Writer and Teacher Extraordinaire | 33
MARIANNE GINGER
The Manner and One Mystery of Doris Betts | 42
BLAND SIMPSON
Clear and Present Laughter | 43
JULIA RIDLEY SMITH
The Workshop | 45
MICHAEL MCFEE
The Poetry of Doris Betts | 47
LEE SMITH
A Wonderful Life | 49
DAPHNE ATHAS
Doris | 50
FRED CHAPPELL
Going Back Gratefully | 52
RACHEL DAVIES
The Diva’s Dress | 53
PAM DURBAN
A Writer’s Craft | 55
MAX STEELE
for A Tribute to Doris Betts | 56
Chad Trevitte | EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
FICTION EDITOR
Clare Douglass
POETRY EDITOR
Jennifer Bolton
LAYOUT EDITOR
Elizabeth Lunday
INTERNET MANAGER
David Davis
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Amy Weldon
SECTION EDITOR
Tara Powell
FICTION STAFF: Kelley Sachs, Jennifer O’Farrill, Heather Ross, Cindy Current, Harris Henderson, Tim Jecmen, Jennifer Butter, Brian Carroll, Amy McGuff, and Brian Frederick
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