Some Impossible Miracle
Flycatcher No. 3
Summer / Fall 2013
Flycatcher No. 3
Summer / Fall 2013
for Trayvon Martin
Editor's Letter
Selections from
Icons of the Civil Rights Movement Art by Pamela Chatterton-Purdy
Faith Healer on Hickory Street Poetry by Karen J. Weyant
The Unbeliever Poetry by John Lane
Slab Shack Poetry by Rupert Fike
Water of Memory Essay by Lucinda Faulkner Merritt
Blackbirds Poetry by Andrea O'Rourke
Last Rites Poetry by Thomas Rain Crowe
Winter: Canon, Georgia Poetry by Michael Diebert
Road Trip to Snow Poetry by Brenda Sutton Rose
On a Highway: Mingo County, West Virginia Poetry by Bill King
Weight Poetry by Judson Mitcham
Selections from
White Noise & Webster's New World Dictionary Art by Bethany Collins
Passage Poetry by Scott Neely
The Life Inside Poetry by Valerie Nieman
The Wife of Job Poetry by Mike James
Relic Poetry by Lisa Nanette Allender
Blight, Decatur Poetry by Jennifer Balachandran
The Stars Shall Withdraw Their Shining Fiction by David Joy
Prudence Poetry by Justin Hamm
Three Collages Art by Noble Beast
The Night We Visited the World's Largest Fiberglass Cow Poetry by Karen J. Weyant
Nocturne in Black, and Lacy-Red Arils of Nutmeg Poetry by Andrea O'Rourke
Harmonica Poetry by Clyde Kessler
The Names Poetry by Thomas Rain Crowe
Morning Hymns Art by Scott Neely
At the Mica Mine: Grafton, New Hampshire Poetry by Jessica Purdy
CONTRIBUTORS
Reviews
Thrall
Natasha Trethewey
Reviewed by Karen Pickell
The Tree of Forgetfulness
Pam Durban
Reviewed by Kathleen Brewin Lewis
Turn Me Loose: The Unghosting of Medgar Evers
Frank X Walker
Reviewed by Christopher Martin
Come, Thief
Jane Hirshfield
Reviewed by Maggie Blake
Nature's Fortune: How Business and Society Thrive by Investing in Nature
Mark R. Tercek and Jonathan S. Adams
Reviewed by Elizabeth Giddens
Camp Redemption
Raymond Atkins
Reviewed by Jordan Thrasher
The Storied South
William Ferris
Reviewed by Kathleen Brewin Lewis
A Guide to Being Born
Ramona Ausubel
Reviewed by Precious Williams
Darkness Sticks to Everything
Tom Hennen
Reviewed by Karen Pickell
Briefly Noted
Night Field Anecdote
William Wright
Noted by Patricia Percival Thomas
Unraveling the Spreading Cloth of Time: Indigenous Thoughts Concerning the Universe
MariJo Moore and Trace A. DeMeyer (Editors)
Noted by Kensie Blackledge
Stand Up That Mountain: The Battle to Save One Small Community
in the Wilderness along the Appalachian Trail
Jay Erskine Leutze
Noted by Kathleen Brewin Lewis
Thrall
Natasha Trethewey
Reviewed by Karen Pickell
The Tree of Forgetfulness
Pam Durban
Reviewed by Kathleen Brewin Lewis
Turn Me Loose: The Unghosting of Medgar Evers
Frank X Walker
Reviewed by Christopher Martin
Come, Thief
Jane Hirshfield
Reviewed by Maggie Blake
Nature's Fortune: How Business and Society Thrive by Investing in Nature
Mark R. Tercek and Jonathan S. Adams
Reviewed by Elizabeth Giddens
Camp Redemption
Raymond Atkins
Reviewed by Jordan Thrasher
The Storied South
William Ferris
Reviewed by Kathleen Brewin Lewis
A Guide to Being Born
Ramona Ausubel
Reviewed by Precious Williams
Darkness Sticks to Everything
Tom Hennen
Reviewed by Karen Pickell
Briefly Noted
Night Field Anecdote
William Wright
Noted by Patricia Percival Thomas
Unraveling the Spreading Cloth of Time: Indigenous Thoughts Concerning the Universe
MariJo Moore and Trace A. DeMeyer (Editors)
Noted by Kensie Blackledge
Stand Up That Mountain: The Battle to Save One Small Community
in the Wilderness along the Appalachian Trail
Jay Erskine Leutze
Noted by Kathleen Brewin Lewis
NOTES ON VISUAL ART: Most banner images throughout this issue are details from Scott Neely's Tears (Holy Week 2012), a series of watercolors on paper that you can view here. The exceptions are the pages for the editor's letter, which features a banner of images from Pamela Chatterton Purdy's Icons of the Civil Rights Movement, and the pages for the visual art of Pamela Chatterton-Purdy, Bethany Collins, Noble Beast, and Scott Neely (Morning Hymns), in which cases the banner art comes from those respective pages. The artwork on the cover and in the background on this page is "Wildwood 2" by Noble Beast, from his series of collages in this issue.