Summer 2012
ESSAYS
Rebecca McClanahan, “Hope and Wait: A Chapter from the Family Archives,” 187
Mary Alice Hostetter, “The Way of Wood,” 225
Melissa Pritchard, “Doxology,” 257
Angela Stewart, “Rot,” 293
Rebeca Gummere, “The Departure,” 319
FICTION
Clint McCown, “Mary Jean McKinney,” 173
Paula Whyman, “You May See a Stranger,” 201
Charles Antin, “Shooting the Moon,” 235
Gary Scott, “The Lights of Mulchany,” 281
Jaimee Wriston Colbert, “Ghosts,” 301
POETRY
Douglas Goetsch, “People” and “Upstairs,” 184
Sarah Kain Gutowski, “What Our Mothers Know as Love” and “Where Have We Taken Our Husbands and Fathers?,” 199
Arthur Vogelsang, “The Friends, the Deal, Regional Dialects” and “Two Natives,” 221
Alan Soldofsky, “Wandering Around,” 232
John Bargowski, “Pucker-Lace Top” and “The How Come of My Father’s Gold Tooth with Music by Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys,” 247
Steve Langan, “Palinode with Little Sister, Crouching” and “Palinode, Secrecy,” 279
David Wagoner, “The Right Way Down” and “Trying to Catch Up,” 290
Chris Hayes, “Frosty Morn Slaughterhouse” and “Slapstick,” 298
Jack Stewart, “Bowing in Silence” and “Vacation,” 316
Hope Maxwell Snyder, “Napping with Steve Orlen,” 318
Rick Bursky, “The Implications” and “The Relentless,” 328
GRAPHICS
Arless Day, Paintings, 249
