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Arkansas Review: A Journal of Delta Studies (formerly Kansas Quarterly) Volume 54, Number 3Winter/December 2023 Guest Editors’ Introduction: The Arkansisters Issue163         by Brookshield Laurent and Lauri Umansky “Arkansisters”: Engaging in Se...

by Faisal Mohammed The Elaine Legacy Center. Photo by Andrea A. Gluckman. The prevalent narrative of rural places marked by traumatic experiences emphasizes these locations’ apparent social, economic, and political consequences but frequently overlo...

Native Brew Works viewed from across Gee Street. Photo by Shobhithan Kandasmay. More Than a Brewery: Native Brew Works 515 South Gee Street Jonesboro, Arkansas by Shobhithan Kandasamy Tucked away on the edge of the West End Neighborhood on Gee Street in Jon...

Better Living by Their Own Boot-straps: Black Women’s Activism inRural Arkansas, 1914-1965. Che-risse Jones-Branch. (Fayetteville, Ar-kansas: The University of ArkansasPress, 2021. Pp. vii + 227, acknowl-edgments, introduction, conclusion,notes, bibliography...

Arkansas Review: A Journal of Delta Studies (formerly Kansas Quarterly) Volume 54, Number 2Summer/August 2023 “I Fed You on Babe’s Milk”: The Absence of the Supernatural in the Lyrics of Skip James81         by Matthew Hoddie wolf (poetry)98         ...

by Michael Copperman Shaya, she tell me the stories mama been passed to her. She wait til after the lights out and the door closed in the basement room so Grand- pop ain’t gone hear. She sing me a world that bigger and brighter than here in Blessing, Missis- s...

Arkansas Review: A Journal of Delta Studies (formerly Kansas Quarterly) Volume 54, Number 1Spring/April 2023 “A Tainted House of Prayer”: Artist V. L. Cox on White Supremacy, Southern Culture, and Her Persisting Love of the Delta3         by Guy Lancas...

Race, Labor, and Violence in the Delta: Essays to Mark the Centennial of the Elaine Massacre. Editedby Michael Pierce and Calvin WhiteJr. (Fayetteville, Arkansas: Universityof Arkansas Press, 2022. Pp. ix + 248, acknowledgments, introduction,notes, contribut...

by Addison Griffis Marcel Vickers stared at a bullet hole in the hood of his pearl Mercedes parked in Magnolia Motors’ used car lot. As he gazed and sipped scorched coffee from a Styrofoam cup, the speck of blackness seemed to spread across metal luste...

by Damon Guinn It’s 1:30 p.m. on the first day of a writing re- treat at the Hemingway-Pfeiffer Museum and Educational Center in Piggott, Arkansas, and I’m camped out in a bathroom between the mu- seum/house and gift shop. I’m supposed to be worki...

by Kenneth Gulotta Roberta scraped her chair across the boards of the little back porch off the kitchen, moving closer to her coffee cup on the table. Back at the old house she would have had a nice ceramic ash- tray, something green and leaf-shaped, maybe, f...

have haunted me for years. Instead, I left the retreat with a sense of pur- pose. Impressed with the insight of my fellow writers and their confidence to examine mem- ories both beautiful and hideous. I want that. I don’t want to succumb to despair ...

by M J Melneck I left Missoula and drove into Fayetteville on Labor Day weekend, 1969, in a 1956 Ford Crown Victoria that I’d bought from Jim Crumley for $325 that I didn’t have. Pretty much everything I owned fit in the car, including my wide carriage Olympi...

by Andrew Alexander Mobbs Cabot, Arkansas, March 29, 1976, 3:18 PM Antagonized by charcoal skies, townsfolk bowed their heads in prayer, beelined for Polaroid cameras to document southern springtime destruction bleeding out in the electric air. Elementary sch...

by Guy Lancaster V. L. Cox was born in Shreveport in 1962 but grew up in Arkadelphia. After working in marketing and advertising after college, she devoted herself to her art in 1997 and has not looked back. Her most well- known work is the “End Hate” installa...

by laura vogt i’m no anthropologist, but if you’re digging in the dirt and expecting magic you’re an explorer magic doesn’t need to be defined, play doesn’t need a purpose, you don’t even know what’s real in the sunlight, the trees shimmering in the w...

by Anthony Bukoski Tallulah is a fine little place. The highway going east and west across north Louisiana runs right past Bloom’s Arcade in town. We’re fifty- six miles from Monroe, twenty-nine from Vicks- burg. Another highway runs south from Arkan...

by Abby Geni Somewhere in the woods, an owl is scream- ing. The cry recurs at irregular intervals, ragged and breathless. The sky is a chalkboard slate, the moon a pastel smudge directly overhead, offering no directional guidance. I have finally admitted to my...

by Alton R. Stone A crow sits on a telephone pole overlooking a small store in a tiny hamlet in the Boston Mountains of western Arkansas. The last of a murder of crows on the pole, the others, all rel- atives, have just flown off to their...

The Dog Years of Reeducation. By Jianqing Zheng. (Lake Dallas, Texas: Madville Publishing, 2023. Pp. 84, $19.95, paperback) When Jianqing Zheng mentions Li Po in his poem “One Winter Night” at the halfway point in his lyrically stunning and moving collection,...