Mud Season Review is excited to announce the release of its first annual print issue. This issue features new poems by and an interview with Vermont Poet Laureate Sydney Lea; an interview with Paul Bogard and an excerpt from his celebrated nonfiction book, The End of Night: Searching for Natural Darkness in an Age of Artificial Light; and the work of the many new, emerging, and established authors, poets, and artists listed below.
Our online Issue #7 offers a preview of work also featured in the print issue. Click on the title links below to view pieces from Issue #7.
Fiction
Kari Giroux │Tuffy
Julie Christine Johnson │Prix Fixe
Joshua Malbin │The Abbey
Michael Minchin│In the Bodies of Beautiful Fish
Nonfiction
Paul Bogard │Excerpt from: The End of Night: Searching for Natural Darkness in an Age of Artificial Light
John Messick │Throwing Stones at Apple Trees
Craig Reinbold │Here in the Museum of Things Gone Terribly Wrong
Jan Shoemaker │ A Wedge of Light
Poetry
Sue Blaustein │Businessmen Drink My Wine, Plowmen Dig My Earth
Amber Brodie │Self-Excavation in the Third Person
Leah Browning │Visiting Hours
Yuan Changming │Y
Megan Collins │Hometown Blues
Edward Dougherty │Preserving the Fabric
Kate Falvey │Cora Talks with Trees
George Freek │Poem 2 After Li Po
Heather Griffiths │Four in the Morning
Lois Marie Harrod │The Soft White Damn
Don Hogle │Last Judgment │ Smoke on the Kaibab Plateau
Tolu Jegede │The Iron
Sydney Lea │Irresolutions│Chimera│Papillons en liberté │Ukrainian Eggs
Deirdre Lockwood │Before the Funeral │ Americant │ Valentines for John Berryman │ Point Judith
Rebecca Macijeski │What Was Here
Andrew McBride │I Take the Son I’ll Never Have to His First Baseball Game
John McCarthy │Mud on the Carpet
Nancy Means Wright │Dancing in the Dark with a Silver Cane │ Digging Up an Old Wound
Tom Montag │Taking Comfort
George Moore │Boat to Skellig Michael │Schoenberg’s Daughter’s White Cat
John Palen │To Finkel’s Ghost
Derek Pollard │A Flower in Joshua’s Arms
Erin Redfern │Fauntleroy Ferry
Celeste Schantz │MIA │Storyteller
Amy Schmidt │Unrequited Affections Catching on the Breeze
Helen Tirone │Father
Art
Paige Berg Rizvi │ Maps and Legends
Nicole Heymer │ Machine Series
Jessica Nissen │Mind Storms and Echoes │Floating Figures
Katie Short │ Lost and Found
Nance Van Winckel │ All Along the Tracks
Interviews
Paul Bogard │ The Ground Beneath His Feet
Sydney Lea │ Ambitious for the Poem