Spring/Summer 2017

• Editor’s Note

  This past January I stayed for a week at Mepkin Abbey near Charleston for a silent retreat. Walking… [read more]
• Special Issue on Extinction

  The theme of Cold Mountain Review’s Fall 2017 issue is Extinction. We invite submissions that… [read more]
• 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… [read more]

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