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
GEORGE HOVIS
An Interview with Lee Smith and Hal Crowther | 62
REVIEWS
TARA POWELL
Quarters | 88
LYNNELL EDWARDS
The Evening Light | 91
SPECIAL FEATURE: A TRIBUTE TO DORIS BETTS
TARA POWELL
Introduction | 22
DORIS BETTS
An excerpt from Who Is Sylvia? | 24
ELIZABETH EVANS
Doris Betts: Writer and Teacher Extraordinaire | 33
TRIBUTES
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 Gracefully | 52
RACHEL DAVIES
PAM DURBAN | 56
MAX STEELE
from A Tribute to Doris Betts | 56
Chad Trevitte | EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
MANAGING EDITOR
Amy Weldon
FICTION EDITOR
Clare Douglass
POETRY EDITOR
Jennifer Bolton
FICTION STAFF
Kelley Sachs, Heather Ross, Harris Henderson, Jennifer Buttaro, Amy McGuff, Jennifer O’Farrill, Cindy Current, Tim Jecmen, Brian Carroll, Brian Frederick
POETRY STAFF
David Davis, Kristen Gravitte, Jenny Christley, Todd Verdun, Lindsey Smith, Stephanie Snyder, Heather Ross, John Ware, Maura McKee, Heather Ross
LAYOUT EDITOR
Elizabeth Lunday
INTERNET MANAGER
David Davis
EDITORIAL CONSULTANTS
Robert West, Brian Carpenter, John Black
SECTION EDITOR
Tara Powell
COVER PHOTO
Publicity still of Doris Betts, reproduced with permission of the North Carolina Collection, UNC-Chapel Hill Library