Sustenance 

Table of Contents

From the Editor

• •Putting By

  Anna Lena Phillips Bell

Out of Place

• •Elsewhere

  David Gessner

Fiction

• Hello! I Am Saying Hello! Because That Is What I Do When I Say Hello!

  Lee Upton

• Happiness

  Ron Carlson

• On the Preparation of Books

  Pedro Ponce

• Like I Told Nancy

  Catherine Meeks

Nonfiction

• •Differentiation

  Camille T. Dungy

• Spoon Bread

  Matthew Gavin Frank

• The Pony, the Pig, and the Horse

  Alison Hawthorne Deming

• Enough

  Sarah Pape

• •Greens: A Mess of Memories about Taste

  Randall Kenan

• Human Principles

  Camas Davis

Poetry

• Seasoning

  Rhina P. Espaillat

• Repopulation

  Greg Nicholl

• Four poems from Salient

  Elizabeth T. Gray, Jr.

• From the Pentagon

  Jehanne Dubrow

• Teardown

  Maryann Corbett

• Even to the Edge

  Maryann Corbett

• The Singing

  Patrick Phillips

• The Well-Door Sang a Green Song

  G.C. Waldrep

• Watchword/Lullaby

  G.C. Waldrep

• •Once home,

  Leah Naomi Green

• Venison

  Leah Naomi Green

• Poem to Be Thrown over the Wall

  Gretchen Steele Pratt

• Well

  J.P. Grasser

Poem in a Landscape

• Insistent Needles: On Reading Ellen Bass’s Birdsong from My Patio

  Aimee Nezhukumatathil

• Birdsong from My Patio

  Ellen Bass

Special Features

• •Heavenly Work: The Fleeting Legacy of the Shakers

  Emily Hilliard & Elizabeth Graeber

• Breaking the Jemima Code: The Legacy of African American Cookbooks

  Toni Tipton-Martin

Map

• Smart APPetite: Promoting Local Food in Ontario

  The Human Enviroments Analysis Lab

The Strip

• Les Curds du Mal

  Sarah Becan