Crossed Over to Classic
by Roy Blount Jr.

South of Lookout Mountain
by James Fowler

Meditations on the
“Partly Colored”
by Leslie Bow

POETRY
John Victor Anderson, Beth Bachmann, Roy Blount Jr., James Brasfield, William Bedford Clark, Peter Cooley, Elizabeth Cox, Ashley David, Eugene Hollahan, Alison Pelegrin, Remy Ramirez, Brian Spears, Jane Springer, Cameron Thomas, Tracy Thomas, Gordon Walmsley

FICTION
John Biguenet, James Lee Burke, Jason Bernard Claxton, Clyde Edgerton, James Fowler, Jill McCorkle, Janet Peery, Charlie Smith, Lee Smith

NONFICTION
Leslie Bow, Janice Daugharty, Patricia Foster, Marianne Gingher, Kat Meads

VISUAL ART
Textiles by Gee’s Bend Quilters

REVIEWS
Lorraine M. López, Myles Weber, David Wojahn
In brief . . . Great with Child by Beth Ann Fennelly, Chicken Dreaming Corn by Roy Hoffman, Green Squall by Jay Hopler, The World Made Straight by Ron Rash, The Celestial Jukebox by Cynthia Shearer

LETTER TO THE EDITOR
Stephen Corey