Editor’s Notes by Joe Mackall
One day last spring my co-editor, Dan Lehman, and I were emailing back and forth—with me in Ohio and Dan in Taiwan—discussing River Teeth and a writer we were excited to be publishing in this issue. And then Dan said something that knocked me flat: “He reminds me of the late Charles Bowden.” I had not known about Chuck’s death until that second, and I still don’t know how I could have missed the news. Chuck Bowden died on August 30, 2014, at the age of sixty-nine. Too damn young. Too damn soon. Continue reading . . .
Contents
“As a Boy I Dreamed Often of a Tiger” Joe Wilkins ◆ “Faithfully a Hidden Life” Joe Wilkins ◆ “Animals of the Suburbs” Kerry Folan ◆ “Jigsaw Puzzle” Robert Long Foreman ◆ “Going Back to Plum Island” Jill Christman ◆ “Air and Water” Karen Dietrich ◆ “The Root of All Things” Nathan Thornburgh ◆ “Some/One” Shannon Huffman Polson ◆ “Simple Laws of the Physical World” Shanley Jacobs ◆ “Detours of Intention: Lost and Found in the Holy Land” Tom Fate ◆ “Spillings” Catalina Ouyang ◆ “A Grave on the High Plains” Stephen Benz ◆ “London, When We” Katherine Robb
