Issue 2

Kaddish for My Mother

by Janet Shaw

Junebug

by Evie McCarthy

Home Movies

by Karen Luke Jackson

At the Jordan Street Café

by Peg Bresnahan

The Practice of Love

by Betty Holden

No Escape

by Charlotte Wolf

On Memory

by Judi Goldenberg

The Power of Words

by Brian Hart

In Rich’s

by Anne Waters Green

Cockles

by Margaret Abruzzi

Jesse

by Joy Boothe

Book Learning

by Sandra Mason

Honey

by Anonymous

Cathy Smith Bowers: New NC Poet Laureate

by Elizabeth Lutyens, Editor in Chief

Prologue and Chapter One

by Lisa Watters

The Truth, More or Less

by Elizabeth Lutyens, Editor in Chief

Wild Things

by Heather Newton

For Patti Digh, Life Is a Verb

by Nancy Russell-Forsythe

My Erstwhile Dear

by Cheryl Dietrich

Wrestling Crocodile

by David Guinn

Chapter One

by Jim Kelton

The Memoir That Became a Novel

by Tommy Hays, Executive Director, Great Smokies Writing Program