Winter 2003 | Volume 55.1
BRAD VICE
The Bear Bryant Funeral Train | 10
MICHAEL MATTES
Stock Options as an Instrument of Love | 25
JOHN POCH
Man Under Water | 75
MARY CARROLL-HACKETT
The Long Clear After the Hunt | 84
POETRY
DANIEL ANDERSON
First Frost | 6
An Aubade | 6
ROB RASH
Tresspass | 23
Watauga Country: 1959 | 23
SARAH MONAHAN
Offertory | 41
ROBERT KING
Love Along the River | 66
Scenic View | 66
E.I. PRUITT
Gram Negative | 82
CHRISTINE ANN CUCCIO
Love Poem, circa 1990 | 83
MICHAEL MCFEE
Christmases with Flannery | 70
SPECIAL SECTION: ELIZABETH SPENCER
AMY WELDON
A Conversation with Elizabeth Spencer | 43
ELIZABETH SPENCER
Excerpt from Days of Wonder | 56
CATHERINE SELTZER
Elizabeth Spencer’s Literary Landscapes: A Brief Road Map | 60
REVIEWS
KRISTEN GRAVITTE
Raising the Dead by Ron Rash | 87
ILLUSTRATIONS
Dan Parrish
Two Poems by Daniel Anderson
Lindsay Starck, Moira Marquis | EDITORS-IN-CHIEF
MANAGING EDITOR
Catherine O’Neill
FICTION EDITOR
Moira Anne Marquis
Rae Yan
BOOK REVIEW EDITOR
Sam Bednarchik
Travis Alexander
NON-FICTION EDITORS
Sam Bednarchik, Travis Alexander
LAYOUT EDITOR
Samntha Farley
COVER DESIGN
Philip McFee
POETRY EDITOR
Sarah George-Waterfield
Lee Norton
ART EDITOR
Chloe Accardi
STAFF: Aisha Anwar, Krista Harder, John Ligtenberg, Maddie Norris
FICTION READERS: Laura Broom, Jacob Watson, L. Lamar Wilson
POETRY READERS: Matthew Hotham, Jeffrey Peterson
NON-FICTION READERS: Ryan-Ashley Anderson, Anneke Schwob