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
Trespass | 23
Watauga Country: 1959 | 23
SARA 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 Flanney | 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
Moira Marquis | EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
FICTION CO-EDITORS
Rae Yan & Laura Broom
BOOK REVIEW EDITOR
Sam Bednarchik
NON-FICTION EDITORS
Travis Alexander
COVER DESIGN
Philip McFee
POETRY EDITORS
Sarah George & Calvin Olsen
ART EDITOR
Chloe Accardi
INTERNS: John Ligtenberg, Krista Harder, Noah Sayre, Maddie Norris, Samantha Farley
FICTION READERS: Mallory Findlay, Kenneth Lota, Lauren Pinkerton, and Anneke Schwob
POETRY READERS: Matthew Hotham and Jeffrey Peterson
NON-FICTION READERS: Ryan Ashley-Anderson, Anneke Schwob, Logan Woelk