Spring 2011 

Table of Contents

From the Editor

• Mojo

  Ben George

Out of Place

• Learning to Talk Bird

  David Gessner

Fiction

• •Buzzers

  Kevin Moffett

• Cat

  Mark Richard

• The Ranger Queen of Sulphur

  Stephanie Soileau

• The Way You Hold Your Knife

  Rebecca Makkai

• •The Vandercook

  Alice Mattison

• A Birth in the Woods

  Kevin Wilson

Nonfiction

• Hope

  Poe Ballantine

• Holy City of the Wichitas

  Kimberly Meyer

• Crush the Snakes and Shoot the Buffalo

  Mark Dewey

• Boys

  Joe Wilkins

• The Last Exam

  Sam Pickering

• •The Unmurdered

  Janna Malamud Smith

Poetry

• Replacements

  Billy Collins

• November Morning

  Billy Collins

• New Zealand

  Billy Collins

• Sunday Afternoon in the Park

  Kevin Prufer

• The Poetry Conference

  Kevin Prufer

• Strange Lullaby

  Kevin Prufer

• Where Is My Tree House?

  James Harms

• Where’s Jeff?

  James Harms

• Tornado at Chester

  Angie Macri

• Nurse Log

  Todd Davis

• One Time

  Travis Mossotti

• Sparrows

  Lisa Fink

• Imperium

  G.C. Waldrep

• On a Raft, Relaxing into the West, Where We Are

  G.C. Waldrep

• Elliott Bay Overlook

  Anne Pierson Wiese

• Hungry

  Mark Irwin

• Gold Bug

  Elizabeth Spires

• •Chinks Peak

  Greg Nicholl

• •Adjusting to the Dark

  Greg Nicholl

Reclamation

• The Laughter Downstairs: Nancy Hale’s “The Earliest Dreams”

  Ann Beattie

• The Earliest Dreams

  Nancy Hale

Map

• Purlieu

  Peter Trachtenberg

The Strip

• Christmas Eve

  John Porcellino

Art

• An Introduction to Magdalena Solé’s New Delta Rising

  Rick Bragg

• New Delta Rising

  Magdalena Solé