Erin Pushman "Sugar Creek" Issues
Fall 2012
We are pleased to announce the release of our Fall 2012 issue. This issue of CMR features the creative nonfiction of Erin Pushman and Sonya Lea as well as poetry from Lisa Hammond, Bill Brown, Terry Ann Thaxton, Elizabeth Hoover, and other notable contributors. It also includes fiction from Elizabeth Genovise and Julian Hoffman, a stunning photo essay by Randi Ward, and Jason Waite's extraordinary cover photograph.
We hope you enjoy it!
Non-Fiction Excerpts
It's true I am hunting creek glass right now, but I would put my hands in the water anyway. I like to feel a creek breathing. My fingers on its silt, my palms on its surface, the rise and fall, rise and fall of its chest.This has become a routine...
1. Four years old. Oak trees, corn fields, white clapboard house. Aunts, uncles, cousins, a smattering of priests and nuns. The smoke from Kentucky burgoo and mutton, a barbecue tradition passed down six generations. Me in a starched smock...
Fiction Excerpts
The four men stood above the gleaming river like it was a newborn child. They watched its every miraculous move, craning their necks over the bent and rusted railing to get a better view. The river sparkled and shone beneath them. The sand and stone...
Poetry Excerpts
Bees Come Up by CHRIS SOUZA
The Death of Twinkle Toes by BILL BROWN
Yellow-Bellied Sapsucker by Z. G. TOMASZEWSKI
Perspective from a Deer Stand – Blackville, SC by Ian Burkett