Issue 22

Arts & Letters Prizes

Lucy Jane Bledsoe Fiction
Girl With Boat

Jennifer Chapis Poetry
Backpacking in the Rain
Hot Orange

Fiction

Carol K. Howell
Torn Gauze

George Looney
Safe Where It Is

Poetry

Deborah Bacharach
The Last Few Days Before Christmas
The Landscapes

Danielle DeTiberus
Like That

Max Garland
Remembering Paducah
The Snowflake

Robert Gibb
Nests
The Hall Mirror

Jenny Hanning
Fifteen, Sixteen
Christmastime

David Ingle
Sewee

Christof Scheele
Accra Miniature
Grodek Miniature

Essays

Stephanie Dugger
Livestock

Sarah Gorham
Neriage, or What Is the Secret of a Long Marriage?

Jeff Mann
Loving Tim or My Passionate Midlife Affair

Lee Martin
Drunk Man

Ryan van Meter
A Private History of Shoeboxes

Interview

Allen Gee
Interview with Charles Baxter

Translation

Nancy Naomi Carlson translates Rene Char
Anoukis et Plus Tard Jeanne / Anoukis and Later Jeanne
Eros Suspendu / Eros Suspended
La Passe de Lyon / Reaching Lyon
Declarer Son Nom / Proclaiming One’s Name

Book Reviews

Bonita Davis reviews Jennifer Baszile
The Black Girl Next Door

Joanna Grisham reviews Jennifer Finney Boylan
I’m Looking Through You: Growing Up Haunted

Carrie Anne Tocci reviews Ayann Hirsi Ali
Infidel

Jeremy Samples reviews Pico Iyer
Open Road: The Global Journey of the Dalai Lama

Jen Pirkle reviews Anne Rice
Called Out of Darkness: A Spiritual Confession

Park Parkison reviews David Sedaris
When You Are Engulfed in Flames