selections from

Issue 4, Native Genius

Editors’ Notes:

A BRIER REVISITING HIS ROOTS
Ryan Walsh

NEW NATIVE
Sebastian Matthews

Feature: Look Homeward—Poetry of & from Asheville, NC

ASHEVILLE
Gary Copeland Lilley

FROM YOUR DRIVEWAY I SEE MOUNT PISGAH
Laura Hope Gill

GREEN RIVER
Jeff Davis

BURYING THE DEAD
Glenis Redmond

EPISTROPHY AT LAKE LURE
Keith Flynn

“QUE SERA SERA”
A. Van Jordan

PRISON OR POETRY
Christine Lassiter

Poems

REDBUD
Betsy Sholl

CHINA TRACES
Charles Wright

ON THE WINGS OF A DOVE
Jim Wayne Miller

STAINED
Irene McKinney

LAKE LURE, 1952
Fred Chappell

EVENING SONG
Tom Andrews

DEAD SONGS
Kathryn Stripling Byer

KEEPING CONNECTED
Jonathan Greene

PHOTO: Jonathan Williams and Jonathan Greene
photo by Dobree Adams

CLOGGING
Robert Morgan

THE CARTER SCRATCH
R.T. Smith

AFTER
Maggie Anderson


Cover photo by Scott Latimore

Interviews

INTERVIEW WITH JONATHAN GREENE
with Sebastian Matthews and Ryan Walsh

ROCK INTHE STREAM: INTERVIEW WITH JIM WAYNE MILLER
Thomas Rain Crowe

Critical Work

JIM WAYNE MILLER'S THE BRIER POEMS
Deborah Bogen

Fiction

from WRECKAGE
Ron Rash

Creative Nonfiction

MOUNTAIN SUMMER
John Lane

PHOTO: John Lane and Thomas Rain Crowe
photo by Nan Watkins

CONNEMARA
Thomas Rain Crowe

Archives

HERITAGE
James Still

THE CUSTODIAN OF A FIELD OF WHISKEY BUSHES
BY THE NOLICHUCKY RIVER SPEAKS:
Jonathan Williams

PHOTO: TWO PHOTOS FROM BLACK MOUNTAIN COLLEGE
Jonathan Williams