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Mar 20, 2017
Spring/Summer 2017
Vol. 45 No. 2
Editor’s Note
This past January I stayed for a week at Mepkin Abbey near Charleston for a silent retreat. Walking…
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Special Issue on Extinction
The theme of Cold Mountain Review’s Fall 2017 issue is Extinction. We invite submissions that…
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A Tribute to Kathryn Stripling Byer
Almost from the first moment you met her, Kay Byer made you feel like an old friend. Her directness…
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RT Smith Prize for Narrative Poetry
We Will Never Mend This
by Jeff Burt
(Winner)
A Sestina for Traveling Season
by Geetha Iyer
(Honorable Mention)
To Shadow
by Matthew Wimberley
(Honorable Mention)
Prologue
by Jude Whelchel
(Finalist)
Poetry Portfolio
Nine Poems
by Rose McLarney
Poetry
Three Poems
by Jan Beatty
Three Poems
by Bruce Weigl
A Language Lost of Trees
by George Kalamaras
Opossums
by Rebecca Baggett
Two Poems
by Pam Baggett
White Noise
by Robert Jackson
Mothering Bear: Stories Torn from the Archive of American Life
by Julia Shipley
Mountains’ Appalachian
by Peter Specker
Lessons from Under the Worm Stone
by Carol Hamilton
Deadline
by Elisabeth Lewis Corley
Filling the Nest
by Elizabeth Rees
Bird Country
by Claudia Buckholts
The Sheriff’s House
by Jacob Boyd
Wander
by Jane Craven
Two Poems
by James Miller
Goya’s Black Paintings, Melville’s White Whale
by David Salner
Fiction
If You Cut Off Her Head, A Horse Falls Out
by Goldie Goldbloom
Leaving Centralia
by Sarah Small
Interviews
A Conversation with Jan Beatty
by Kathryn Kirkpatrick
A Conversation with Rose McLarney
by Kathryn Kirkpatrick
Interview with Bianca Lynne Spriggs
by Nathan Poole
Their Impulse Toward the Terrain: An Interview with Robert Gipe
by Zackary Vernon
Visual Art
Photography
by Rick Rapfogel
Visual Art
by Robert Bharda
Book Reviews
A Story That Has Been Told for Generations
by Alex Pitofsky
A Sharp and Unsettling Country Noir
by Jack Slay, Jr.
Making Assumptions About Rural Life and Rural People
by Dale Bailey
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