Issue 25.2
Jul 10, 2024
Editor’s Notes by Daniel W. Lehman and Joe Mackall
It was a wintry afternoon in what was then a rough neighborhood in Washington, DC, and a colleague and I were out scouting pictures and stories for the neighborhood newspaper we’d started in 1972. Our wanderings that day led us out for a news feature on a new city playground, where we watched kids shoot hoops, scramble up and down sliding boards, and pump swings until ropes went slack with their soaring. Continue reading . . .
Contents
“Darkness Erased” Ali Saperstein ◆ “Firebrand” Robert W. Fieseler ◆ “Ground” Jenna Hammerich ◆ “Black Boy Dreams of Flying Machines” Sean Enfield ◆ “The Day My Mother Died” Hannibal Hamlin ◆ “The Voicer of God” Sarah Minor ◆ “How to Tell the Truth About Recovery” Timothy J. Hillegonds ◆ “Naloxone, Syringes, and Pipes” Melody Glenn
Contributors’ Notes . . .
River Teeth Archives
Issue 25.1
Featuring the writing of Elizabeth Miki Brina, Kit Carlson, Brooke Champagne, Henrietta Goodman, Megan Harlan, Sonya Huber, Laura Johnsrude, Shannon McCarthy, Tierney Oberhammer, Jon Parrish Peede, and Justin St. Germain.
Nov 29, 2023
Issue 24.2
Featuring the writing of Greg Bottoms, Elizabeth Carls, Jim Daniels, Kathleen Driskell, Michael Down, Renata Golden, Diane Gottlieb, Sydney Lea, Ann Leamon, Leslie Jill Patterson, Julia Purks, Claudia F. Saleeby Savage, Layli Shirani, Jill Talbot, Melissa Akie Wiley.
Apr 1, 2023
Issue 24.1
Featuring the writing of Nicholas Dighiera, Nicole Hamer, Jessica Kulynych, David McGlynn, Lilly U. Nguyen, Craig Reinbold, S. N. Rodriguez, Ellen Rogers, Ana Maria Spagna, Leslie Stonebraker, and Jessie van Eerden.
Nov 16, 2022
Issue 23.2
Featuring the writing of Constance Adler, N.D. Brown, Andre Dubus III, Sophie Ezzell, Suzanne Finney, Steven Harvey, Mary Milstead, Jefferson Slagle, Ira Sukrungruang, Alexandra Teague, and Kathryn Winograd.
Mar 31, 2022
Issue 23.1
Featuring the writing of Desiree Cooper, Michael Garrigan, Tiffany Isaacs, Jessica Johnson, Aaron Landsman, Sarah Layden, Tyler Mills, Marion Peters Denard, and Jan Shoemaker.
Oct 12, 2021
Issue 22.2
Featuring the writing of Greg Bottoms, James Brown, Marianne Jay Erhardt, Jessica Franken, Jason Goldsmith, Richard Goodman, Nicole Graev Lipson, Shamecca Harris, Rick Rees, Abigail Thomas, and Emily Waples.
Apr 12, 2021
Issue 22.1
Featuring the writing of Erin Block, Michael Dinkel, J. Malcolm Garcia, Megan Harlan, Susan Jackson Rodgers, Ren Jones, Emma Kaiser, Brenda Miller, Micah Perks, Molly Rideout, Allie Spikes, Jonathan Starke, and Julie Marie Wade.
Oct 12, 2020
Issue 21.2
Featuring the writing of Tim Bascom, Wendy Bilen, James Ellenberger, Kelly Fordon, Camellia Freeman, Nicole Graev Lipson, Mary Grimm, Kelle Groom, Kevin Honold, Phillip Hurst, Rebecca McClanahan, and Liz Prato.
Apr 12, 2020
Issue 21.1
Featuring the writing of Noah Davis, Nicholas Dighiera, Molly Gallentine, Susan H. Greenberg, Stephen D. Gutierrez, Sean Ironman, Lawrence Lenhart, Beth Ann Miller, Jan Shoemaker, Laurie Uttich, and Leonard Winograd.
Oct 12, 2019
Issue 20.2
Featuring the writing of Elizabeth Miki Brina, Fleda Brown, Jeff Gundy, Rosanna N. Henderson, EmmaJean Holley, Anne McGrath, E.J. Myers, Sam Pickering, Evan Reibsome, Chris Siteman, J. David Stevens, Jill Talbot, and Rachel Weaver.
Apr 12, 2019
Issue 20.1
Featuring the writing of Beth Alvarado, Iver Arnegard, Greg Bottoms, Ryan Brod, Earl Fendelman, Vivé Griffith, Richard Hoffman, Sydney Lea, Jake Maynard, Seth Sawyers, Ash Whitman, and Holly Willis.
Oct 12, 2018
Issue 19.2
Featuring the writing of Mark Beaver, Wendy Bone, Jill Christman, Bonnie Ilza Cisneros, Tom Montgomery Fate, Carol D. Marsh, Anton DiSclafani, Thomas Larson, Suzanne Roberts, Emily Sinclair, Heather M. Surls, and Alia Volz.
Apr 11, 2018
Issue 19.1
Featuring the writing of Anne Barngrover, Sarah Curtis Graziano, Nicholas Dighiera, Joan Frank, Ted Gup, Mary Haug, Ann Hood, Cecele Kraus, Jessica Lind Peterson, Marilyn Moriarty, Amy Peterson, and Ana Maria Spagna.
Oct 1, 2017
Issue 18.2
Featuring the writing of Amanda Bestor-Siegal, Brian Castner, Krista Christensen, Reg Darling, Michael Downs, Andre Dubus III, E.A. Farro, Zachary Gerberick, Lauren Hobson, Thomas Larson, Brenda Miller, Kerry Muir, and Julie Marie Wade.
Apr 1, 2017
Issue 18.1
Featuring the writing of Marley Andino, Marion Boyer, Emily Brisse, Rachel Graham Cody, Kevin Honold, Feagin Jones, David Lazar, Alex Lemon, Annie Olson, Angela Pelster, Josh Potter, Joe Wilkins, and Kathryn Winograd.
Oct 1, 2016
Issue 17.2
Featuring the writing of Cate Hennessey, Fleda Brown, Tim Hillegonds, Sonya Huber, Rebecca McClanahan, Donald Mitchell, Joe Oestreich, Jan Shoemaker, William Torrey, Jerald Walker, Gina Williams, and Heather Gemmen Wilson.
Apr 1, 2016
Issue 17.1
Featuring the writing of Stephen Benz, Jill Christman, Karen Dietrich, Tom Fate, Kerry Folan, Shanley Jacobs, Shannon Huffman Polson, Robert Long Foreman, Catalina Ouyang, Katherine Robb, Nathan Thornburgh, and Joe Wilkins.
Oct 1, 2015
Issue 16.2
Featuring the writing of Justin Heckert, Jonathan Hiskes, Abrianna Jetté, Courtney Kersten, Judith Kitchen, Jennifer Lunden, C. Levison McGuire, Jacqueline Lyons, Mark H. Massé, Jan Shoemaker, John Patrick Tormey, Tarn Wilson,
Apr 15, 2015
Issue 16.1
Featuring the writing of Elizabeth Arnold, Jacqueline Haskins, Hannah Hindley, Sydney Lea, Britt Leach, Nancy Lord, Lee Martin, Melissa Matthewson, Anne Panning, Pamela Schmid, Ron Clinton Smith, Jonathan Starke, and Ira Sukrungruang.
Oct 15, 2014
Issue 15.2
Featuring the writing of Marley Andino, Chelsea Biondolillo, Christopher Bundy, Steven Church, Penny Guisinger, Michelle Herman, Keith Lesmeister, Joe Mackall, Brenda Miller, Leila Philip, Kim Todd, and Nicole Walker.
Apr 21, 2014
Issue 15.1
Featuring the writing of Jessica Bordoni, Brian Doyle, Katie Fallon, Bettye Kearse, Daniel W. Lehman, Mark Liebenow, Chris Offutt, Beth Peterson, Aaron Poor, Seth Sawyers, Debie Thomas, Helen Wallace, and Michelle Webster-Hein.
Oct 20, 2013
Issue 14.2
Featuring the writing of Marilyn Bousquin, Jackson Connor, Philip Gerard, Richard Goodman, Sonja Livingston, Glenn Moomau, A. Sandosharaj, Amy A. Whitcomb, Kathryn Wilder, and Kirk Wilson.
Apr 20, 2013
Issue 14.1
Featuring the writing of Robert Atwan, Kathleen Blackburn, Andre Dubus III, Richard Gilbert, Lee Martin, Karen McElmurray, C.D. Mitchell, Eli Sanders, Joshua Wolf Shenk, Leslie Stainton, Laurie Rachkus Uttich, Robert Vivian, and Jerald Walker.
Oct 19, 2012
Issue 13.2
Featuring the writing of Steven Harvey, Jon Kerstetter, Thomas Larson, Sydney Lea, Sara Loewen, Rebecca McClanahan, Leila Philip, MaryKatherine Ramsey, Dan Roche, Michael R. Shea, and Sarah M. Wells.
Apr 18, 2012
Issue 13.1
Featuring the writing of Cynthia Anne Brandon, Rosa Del Duca, Philip Gerard, Steven Harvey, Mary Haug, Michelle Herman, Richard Hoffman, Kim Dana Kupperman, Sydney Lea, Bethany Maile, and Lisa Ohlen.
Oct 18, 2011
Issue 12.2
Featuring the writing of Bruce Ballenger, Bob Cowser Jr., Lori Jakiela, Tom Lassiter, Mel Livatino, Maggie Messitt, Angela Morales, Sam Pickering, Jason Tucker, and Gabriel Urza.
Apr 18, 2011
Issue 12.1
Featuring the writing of K. Emily Bond, Greg Bottoms, Kurt Caswell, J. Malcolm Garcia, Will Jennings, Jill Noel Kandel, Phillip Lopate, Robert McGowan, Brad Modlin, Maureen Stanton, Eric Dean Wilson, and Kathryn Winograd.
Oct 16, 2010
Issue 11.2
Featuring the writing of Anne Bardaglio, Michael Downs, Valerie Due, Richard Goodman, John E. Keats, Daniel W. Lehman, Gregory L. Morris, Nick Neely, Anne Panning, Jonny Steinberg, Emily C. Watson, and Eliza Wilmerding.
Apr 16, 2010
Issue 11.1
Featuring the writing of Featuring the writing of Mark Behr, Michelle Bliss, Michael Bogan, Jill Christman, Gretchen Clark, Kathy Fagan, Mohja Kahf, Mark H. Massé, Rebecca McClanahan, Heather Killelea McEntarfer, Kelly McMasters, Chris Rose, and Brent Spencer.
Oct 2, 2009
Issue 10.1 & 10.2
Featuring the writing of Kim Barnes, Ann M. Bauer, Sophie Beck, R. Glendon Brunk, Jill Christman, Steven Church, Tracy Daugherty, David James Duncan, Tom Feeney, Tom French, Diana Hume George, Philip Gerard, Stephen Gutierrez, Jessie Harriman, Walt Harrington, Steven Harvey, Michelle Herman, Barbara Hurd, Diana Joseph, Ted Kooser, Daniel W. Lehman, Andrea Lorenz, Margaret Macinnis, Joe Mackall, Teddy Macker, Nancy Mairs, Lee Martin, Rebecca Mcclanahan, Amy Morgenstern, Chris Offutt, Sam Pickering, Seth Sawyers, Floyd Skloot, Brent Spencer, Maureen Stanton, Deborah Peterson Swift, Gay Talese, and Brad K. Younkin.
Oct 22, 2008
Issue 9.2
Featuring the writing of Aaron Alford, Matthew Davis, Lorence Gutterman, William Haas, Barbara Hurd, Teddy Macker, Desirae Matherly, Bill Milligan, Jane Sandor, Timothy Schaffert, Jo Scott-Coe, Margot Singer, and Janet Yoder.
Apr 24, 2008
Issue 9.1
Featuring the writing of William Giraldi, Lisa Ohlen Harris, Diana Joseph, Steve Kistulentz, Margaret Macinnis, Patrick Madden, Tom Montgomery-Fate, Joanna Robinson, Roger Sheffer, and Dustin Beall Smith.
Oct 29, 2007
Issue 8.2
Featuring the writing of Sophie Beck, Jill Christman, Liza Field, David Gessner, Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela, Richard Hoffman, Kevin Kerrane, Antjie Krog, J. T. Ledbetter, Jacqueline Marino, Juan Martinez, Andie Miller, Dinty W. Moore, Donald Morrill, and S. L. Wisenberg.
Apr 9, 2007
Issue 8.1
Featuring the writing of Karen Babine, Michael W. Cox, Omar Eby, Jynelle A. Gracia, Steven Harvey, Joe Kraus, Sydney Lea, Buddy Levy, Lee Martin, Chris Offutt, Kathryn Rhett, Mimi Schwartz, Penelope Schwartz Robinson, Floyd Skloot, and Kirsten Whatley.
Oct 9, 2006
Issue 7.2
Featuring the writing of Jane Armstrong, Jerry Dennis, Philip Gerard, D. L. Hall, Kim Dana Kupperman, Janet C. McCaa, David Plante, Lynda Rutledge, Sue William Silverman, and Dustin Beall Smith.
Apr 10, 2006
Issue 7.1
Featuring the writing of Sue Allison, Tama Baldwin, Paul Bogard, Kelly Grey Carlisle, Angie Carter, Joshua A. Dolezal, Katie Fallon, Amy Friedman, Ted Gup, Stephen D. Gutierrez, Andrea Lorenz, Kyle Minor, Katy Read, Benjamin Stein, and Ryan Van Meter.
Oct 15, 2005
Issue 6.2
Featuring the writing of Amy Alznauer, Mike Barenti, Joe Bonomo, Juliana Gray, Kurt Inderbitzin, Christopher Walken, Patricia Ann McNair, Rosemary McGuire, Joel B. Peckham, Leslie Rubinkowski, Mark Sanders, Brandon R. Schrand, and Alex Taylor.
Apr 15, 2005
Issue 6.1
Featuring the writing of Marilyn Abildskov, Jennifer Brice, Bonnie Jo Campbell, Diana Hume George, Kelly Brecher King, Sydney Lea, Patrick Madden, Lee Martin, Brent Spencer, W. Thomas, W. J. Thornton, and Robert Vivian.
Oct 15, 2004
Volume 1, Number 1
The first issue of River Teeth was published in the Fall of 1999 and featured a powerful introduction by editor David James Duncan and works by Kim Barnes, Leon Dash and Susan Sheehan, Nancy Mairs, Jon Franklin, Joe Mackall, Ronald J. Nelson, Brian Mooney, John Reed, and Philip Smucker.
Oct 1, 1999
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