by Matthew Hoddie

        by Dan Jacoby

        by Michael Copperman

        by Aubrey Fannin

        by William Miller

        Mojie Crigler

        Commando Lyric 2
        Commando Lyric 3
        The City With Ghosts
        by Anne Babson

        by Catherine Grow

        by Hollie Dugas

        by William Bonfiglio

        by Guy Lancaster

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        Tempo
        On My Back
        Beliefs
        Burial
        by Chloe Cook

        by Jessica Dye

        by JC Alfier

        “A Stately Progression of Spirits”:         Remembering Carol O’Connor and Grif Stockley         by Guy Lancaster

        Jacks, Po’ Monkey’s: Portrait of a Juke Joint, reviewed by Claude Wilkinson         Williams, Don’t Tell Anybody the Secrets I Told You: A Memoir, reviewed by Bryan L. Moore         Gaspeny, A Postcard from the Delta, reviewed by Khem Aryal         Trotti, The End of Public Execution: Race, Religion, and Punishment in the American South, reviewed by Guy Lancaster         Goertzen, Rugs, Guitars, and Fiddling:         Intensification and the Rich Modern Lives of Traditional Arts, reviewed by Gregory Hansen

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JC Alfier’s most recent book, The Shadow Field, was published by Louisiana Literature P (2020). Journal credits include Carolina Quarterly, Copper Nickel, The

Emerson Review, Faultline, Notre Dame Review, New York

Quarterly, Penn Review, Southern Poetry Review, and Va s- sar Review. He is founder and co-editor of Blue Horse Press. He is also an artist doing collage and double-ex- posure work.

Khem Aryal is a writer, editor, and a teacher of writ- ing. His fiction has appeared in such journals as The Pinch, Isthmus, Reed, South Carolina Review, and Pangy- rus. His edited collection of stories and essays by au- thors of South Asian descent in the U.S., South to South: Writing South Asia in the American South, has just come out from Texas Review P, and his debut short story collection, The In-Betweeners, will be out in Oc- tober this year from Braddock Avenue Books. His chapbook, His Grandma Blues, was published from Belle Point P last November as part of its Mid-South Prose Series. He is Associate Professor of Creative Writing at Arkansas State University, where he also serves as creative materials editor of Arkansas Review.

Anne Babson is the author of four collections of po- etry, one play, one opera libretto, and multiple indi- vidual works of poetry an fiction that have been published on five continents. She is the president of the Women’s National Book Association of New Or- leans, and she teaches writing and literature at South- eastern Louisiana University.

William Bonfiglio’s poetry has been awarded a Pearl Hogrefe Grant in Creative Writing Recognition Award, the Julia Fonville Smithson Memorial Prize, and has appeared in American Journal of Poetry, New Letters, PRISM international, and elsewhere.

Chloe Cook holds a BA in English from Northern Kentucky University. Her work appears or is forth- coming in Bayou Magazine, Delta Poetry Review, The Journal, Lascaux Review, and elsewhere. She is currently an MFA student at the University of Florida.

Michael Copperman is the author of a memoir of the rural Black public schools of the Delta, Teacher (UPM 2017). This piece is his third to appear in Arkansas Re- view, and along with those chapters and others pub- lished in Boston Review, Copper Nickel, and UNSAID, make up part of his novel-in-stories Sparrow Wings, for which he is currently seeking a publisher.

Mojie Crigler is the author of Get Me Through Tomor- row: A Sister’s Memoir of Brain Injury and Revival (U of Nebraska P, 2015) and co-author of Under the Big Tree: Extraordinary Stories from the Movement to End Neglected Tropical Diseases (Johns Hopkins UP, 2019). Her fic- tion has appeared in Glimmer Train, Hunger Mountain, Los Angeles Review, Brooklyn Rail, and Bona Fide Books’ anthology, Tahoe Blues.

Hollie Dugas lives in New Mexico. Her work has been selected to be included in Barrow Street, Reed Magazine,

Crab Creek Review, Qu, Redivider, Porter House Review,

Pembroke, Salamander, Poet Lore, Watershed Review, Mud

Season Review, Little Patuxent Review, The Louisville Re-

view, The Penn Review, Chiron Review, Breakwater Re- view, Phoebe, Broad River Review, Fugue, and Louisiana Literature. Additionally, “A Woman’s Confession #5,162” was selected as the winner of Western Human- ities Review Mountain West Writers’ Contest (2017). Hollie has been nominated for a 2020 Pushcart Prize and for inclusion in Best New Poets 2021. Most re- cently, her poem was selected as winner of the 22nd Annual Lois Cranston Memorial Poetry Prize at CALYX, in addition to, the 2022 Heartwood Poetry Prize. She was also a finalist in the Atlanta Review’s 2022 International Poetry Contest. Currently, she is on the editorial board for Off the Coast.

Jessica Dye is a fifth-generation Arkansan, born and raised in Tumbling Shoals in the foothills of the

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Ozark Mountains. Jessica holds a Bachelor of Arts in liberal arts from the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. She is currently working on her Master of Arts in Professional Creative Writing from the University of Denver. She resides in central Arkansas with her husband, Michael, and their beloved rescue pets.

Aubrey Fannin lives on a small farm near Huntsville, Alabama, with his wife, daughter, and three well- named cats. He is a winemaker and brewer and enjoys tending his herd of muscadine vines. A graduate of the geography program at the University of North Al- abama, Aubrey has worked as a cartographer, project manager, and IT professional for 28 years. He is a reg- ular contributor of poetry to the (WLRH) Sundial Writers Corner. Aubrey’s first published poem can be found in Poetry South.

Catherine Grow, a former Women’s Studies instruc- tor at Ohio University, is a writer living in rural Con- necticut. Much of her work is inspired by the decade she spent living as a back-to-the-lander in the southern Missouri Ozarks. Her recently published novel, The Evolution of Hallie Jo Everheart: A Novel in Stories (Am- herst, MA: White River P, 2023), draws on that ex- perience. Her work has also appeared in a variety of journals, including Reed Magazine, The Copperfield Re- view, The Christian Science Monitor, and others.

Gregory Hansen is Professor of Folklore and English at Arkansas State University where he also teaches in the Heritage Studies Doctoral Program. He is the au- thor of A Florida Fiddler: The Life and Times of Richard Seaman, and his publications focus on roots music, folklore and language, and public folklore.

Matthew Hoddie is Professor of Political Science at Towson University. Much of his research has focused on the domestic politics of foreign states, with a par- ticular emphasis on ethnic conflict and the resolution of violence. His recent work has appeared in journals such as International Studies Quarterly and Acta Politica.

Dan Jacoby is a graduate of St. Louis University, Chi- cago State University, and Governors State University. He has published poetry in Bombay Gin, Euphony, Red Fez, Arkansas Review and other fine publications. He is a former educator, steel worker, green beret, and counterintelligence agent. He was born in 1947 on the second floor of a cold water flat at 55th and Halsted, Chicago. His work is influenced by the poets John Knoepfle, Al Montesi, Dobby, and John Logan to name a few. He has been nominated in 2015 and 2020 for a Pushcart and Best of the Net in 2021. He is the author of the book Blue Jeaned Buddhists.

Guy Lancaster currently is the editor of the online En- cyclopedia of Arkansas, a project of the Central Arkan- sas Library System, and the author of a number of books on race and violence, including American Atroc- ity: The Types of Violence in Lynching (University of Ar- kansas P, 2021).

William Miller’s eighth collection of poetry, The Crow Flew Between Us, was published by Kelsay Books in

• His poems have recently appeared in The Lull- water Review, Apricity, Poetica: The International Maga- zine of Jewish Writing, The Courtship of Winds, and Lowestoft Chronicle. He lives and writes in The French Quarter of New Orleans.

Bryan L. Moore is Assistant Chair of the Department of English, Philosophy, and World Languages; Profes- sor of English at Arkansas State University; and Poetry Editor for Arkansas Review. He is the author of Ecology and Literature: Ecocentric Personification from Antiquity to the Twenty-first Century (2008) and Ecological Litera- ture and the Critique of Anthropocentrism (2017), as well as numerous scholarly articles.

Claude Wilkinson’s articles, essays, and poems have appeared in numerous publications, such as African

American Review, Arkansas International, Arkansas

Review, Image, Oxford American, Southern Quarterly, and Southern Review, over the years. His most recent poetry collections are Marvelous Light and World without End.

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