Table of Contents II

Eldorado (poetry) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163
by Linda Parsons

The Coin Collector (fiction) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164
by David Fowler

Two Poems (poetry) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170
Deer Stand Marginalia
First Shoot
by Scott Dickison

Losing Richard (memoir) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175
by Dale Fairbanks

Sunset in Eureka Springs (poetry). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184
by Mary Meriam

A Swamp Tale (fiction. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185
by Charles Moffat

The Province of All the Time in the World (poetry). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189
by Terry Minchow-Proffitt

A Boneyard of Laughter-Silvered Wings (fiction) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193
by Dana Chamblee Carpenter

After Cairo (poetry) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201
by Madelyn Musick

Three Delta Poems (poetry) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202
Delta Shackscape
Delta Rain
Delta Summer
by Jianqing Zheng

One Mississippi, Two Mississippi . . . 1964 (fiction) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 206
by Mark Dozier

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Delta Whites (poetry) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219
by Eulea Kiraly

Christmas on the Delta (poetry) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 220
by Floyd Collins

mark the time (poetry) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 222
by Dan Jacoby

Lee’s Girl (fiction). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223
by S.E. Wilson

Two Poems (poetry) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 226
Picking Cucumbers in the Rain
My Parents Tell Me the Bluebirds Have Gone
by Andrew Alexander Mobbs

Three Poems (poetry) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 228
Winter Crows
The Natural World
Terminus
by Claude Wilkinson

Delta Sources and Resources. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231
Of Salt and Spirit: Black Quilters in the American South (traveling art exhibition)
Mississippi Museum of Art
Jackson, Mississippi
by Marcus Charles Tribbett

Reviews. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 232
Plummer, ed., Of Salt and Spirit: Black Quilters in the American South, reviewed by Gregory Hansen
Rost, Catching Hell from All Quarters: Anti-Klan Activists in Interwar Missouri, reviewed by David Roediger
Lemco, Wading In: Desegregation on the Mississippi Gulf Coast, reviewed by Brent Riffel

Contributors