CONTENTS

Editor’s Note by Jason Howard

IN MEMORIAM: JEAN RITCHIE (1922-2015)
A Tribute by Loyal Jones

FICTION
Floods and Fires by Dan Leach
What Work Is by Dean Marshall Tuck

CREATIVE NONFICTION
Speaking of Lineage by Jackson Connor
Holler by Jad Adkins

POETRY
Memorate by Christie Collins
Mining for Sapphires by Christie Collins
Tintagel by Loyal Jones
Within the Mudslide by Andrew Jarvis
High School Cafeteria in Eastern Kentucky by C. Lynn Shaffer
Hateful by Pauletta Hansel
Bat House Blessing by Donna J. Long

SPECIAL FEATURE: VOICE LESSONS
Fiction: The Attack by Darnell Arnoult
Creative Nonfiction: The Long Weeping by Jessie van Eerden
Fiction: Where You are Planted by Amanda Jo Runyon
Creative Nonfiction: Let Evening Come by Karen Salyer McElmurray

PITCH PERFECT: POEMS ABOUT MUSIC
I saw Bobby Bare kiss Marty Stuart by Marianne Worthington
The Mountaineer’s Daughter by Bradley R. Strahan
Listening to a Recording of Eden Hammons Playing “General Washington’s March” by Doug Van Gundy
Black Radio by Roy Bentley
That Boy from the ’50s by Hadley Hury

INTERVIEW
Jessie van Eerden by Jason Howard

BOOK REVIEWS
Me and My Daddy Listen to Bob Marley: Novellas and Stories (Pancake) by Elaine Fowler Palencia
Riding on Comets: A Memoir (Pleska) by Donna M. Crow