winTer 2007
The MSU Writers Issue
Contributing Illustrators
Robert William Head
Dale Daniel Leys
Table of Contents
The story of Deb Wylder, founder of the Murray State University creative writing program
Editor's Introduction, by Ann Neelon
Self-Portrait, by Charles Wright
The Novelist to His Characters, by Daniel Anderson
Land Between the Lakes, by Squire Babcock
Intransitive, by Christopher Buckley
Food for Death, by Ralph Burns
Homecoming, by Tony Crunk
Church Bells, by Tony Crunk
Genesis, by Christopher Davis
Little Crisis Framed in My Window, by Christopher Davis
Initiations: Dad in Light and Shadow, 1955/1964, by Philip F. Deaver
The Old King, by Pam Durban
Old Men on the Courthouse Lawn, Murray, Kentucky, by James Galvin
Hematite Lake, by James Galvin
Al-Baab: The Door, by James Hannah
Reality Show, by George Hovis
The Supremes, by Mark Jarman
Statues, by Mark Levine
From House Concert, by T.M. McNally
After Reading Miklós Radnóti, I Attend a Performance of Rogers and Hammerstein's South Pacific,
by Ann Neelon
Ars Poetica, by Ann Neelon
My Father's Ark, by Dale Ray Phillips
Nadine, by Joe Ashby Porter
Bottomland, by Ken Smith
Job and God, in a Slow One, by Richard Speakes
Patsy Cline, by Richard Speakes
When Humans Disappoint, by Richard Speakes
