WINTER 2008

Mexico in the Heartland: featuring the Mexican Mural Project

Illustrator

José Luis Soto González, front and back cover

Table of Contents

Editor's Introduction, by Ann Neelon

Language as Sacrament: A Conversation with Fred de Rosset, an interview

The Mexican Mural Project, an oral history

Maguey Azul, a poem by Christina Lovin

Pain, Pride and the Permit that Never Expires (Excerpts), essays by Philip Garrison

Belen, a story by Daniel Olivas

The First Mexican Hillbilly, a prose poem by Wanda Campbell

Spirit Song, a story by Sharon Balentine

Seeing Mexico, an essay by Michael Cohen

Señora Who, a poem by Kristen Rankin

The Fifth Grave, a story by Socorro Venegas

Poems by Lisken Van Pelt Dus

- Lacking Wings

- Quincalleria y Fijaciones

- Becoming Double

- Whistling and Dusty

- Pajarita

- Sueños Por Alla

- Dreams Over There

They Have Rivers Here, a story by Susan Hazen-Hammond

 

Book Reviews

What's Written on the Body

by Peter Periera

reviewed by Pamela Johnson Parker

The Average American Male: a Novel

by Chad Kultgen

reviewed by Glenn D. Jackson

The Discomfort Zone

by Jonathan Franzen

reviewed by Leif Erickson Rigney

God Said Yes

by Heather Hornback-Bland and Ninie Hammon

reviewed by Kara Widener

All Aunt Hagar's Children

by Edward P. Jones

reviewed by Tim Carter

Back to PAST ISSUES page.

masthead