Ebook: Blackbird

Thirteen ways of looking at black eyed peas / Sara Amis -- Possibilities / Diana Anhalt -- Out in the middle of a field / Keith Badowski -- Alleluia / Rebecca Baggett -- Chihuahua / Sara Baker -- Tightrope / Marcia Barnes -- August / Laura Beasley -- It's pronounced [tree-uh n] / Philip Belcher -- From the canon / Will Blair -- Folly Island / Margaret Blake -- Under the vulture-tree ; Eye to eye / David Bottoms -- In dust what ties / Deborah Brandon -- Complete conversations with my father: unprovoked and about which I am still confused / Jody Brooks -- Weekend strip club, 1959 / Jenny Mary Brown -- On Daniel Minter's high John the conqueror / Jericho Brown -- My father finally says out loud the word I've only heard him think / Stacey Lynn Brown -- Heirloom / Kathryn Stripling Byer -- Line shackle 9 / Brigitte Byrd -- Syllables on the problem of cremation at East Point, Florida / Kevin Cantwell -- Herringbone and Iris / Marian Carcache -- The color of light / Cathy Carlisi -- Upbeat on the downbeat: a hymn for Atlanta / Ricks Carson -- A winter morning / Jimmy Carter -- Pretty little rooms / Katie Chaple -- Dusk / Diya Chaudhuri -- Story in the late style of a city / Simona Chitescu -- Jellyfish / George David Clark -- Aging gracefully / Jim Clark -- Moving home when that means to Newnan and you're 25: an instructional list / Daniel Conlan -- Now / Daniel Corrie -- Savannah / Tasha Cotter -- Constellations & their meanings / Bruce Covey -- Silly / Chad Davidson -- To a (Buick) Skylark / Travis Denton-- Taking the backroads to the orthodontist / Melissa Dickson -- Letter to Ferris from Decatur / Michael Diebert -- Elegy for the boy I never was / Maudelle Driskell -- Mason's Bridge ; Laughter / Blanche Farley -- Wishing on a star / Elizabeth Fields -- Bacon grease / Rupert Fike -- Sundown, Savannah / Ann Fisher-Wirth -- Against forgetting small towns / Gregory Fraser -- Red camellia / Alice Friman -- Going back to the river / Lee Furey -- Labor Day, one year married / Elizabeth Garcia -- Apertures: Andalusia / Sarah Gordon -- When skies are grey / Robert Gray -- Winter to spring ; Narcissus / Beth Gylys -- Silences / Deborah Hall -- Magic City / Derrick Harriell -- River of painted rocks / Pamela Hart -- Homecoming / William Ogden Haynes -- Father to son, or a brief history of okra (master's take) / M. Ayodele Heath -- Watching daybreak on the Savannah / Graham Hillard -- What's needed / Laurence Holden -- Poem that begins with a definition / Karen Paul Holmes --;Coils of white / H. Holt -- Woodpecker / Peter Huggins -- What you must understand / Sara Hughes -- Slow train through Georgia / T. R. Hummer -- Chattahoochee low tide / Jamie Iredell -- To home / Robert Perry Ivey -- Talking with Allen Ginsberg, in a dream / Mike James -- Canoe / Gordon Johnston -- Apocalypse tacklebox / Melanie Jordan -- Cinema verite: a love story ; Blackbirds / Andrea Jurjevic -- Atoms for peace / Lissa Kiernan -- Like linen on the crepe myrtle / Anna King -- Winter song / Bill King -- One man's profit / Robert S. King -- The Clermont Lounge, Atlanta GA / Dorothy Knight -- Savannah / Chrissy Kolaya -- Georgia / Keetje Kuipers -- At age ninety my grandfather no longer gardens / Irene Latham -- Communion / Joshua Lavender -- N26P49 / Hank Lazer -- Georgia cypress / Rachel Van Horn Leroy -- Eggshell / Kathleen Brewin Lewis -- An unauthenticated Johnny minotaur episode fragment (translated from the Cretan) / John Lowther -- Fox ; The hunchback farmhand / Thomas Lux -- Afternoon rain ; Dangerous creatures / Clarence Major -- Marcescence / Christopher Martin -- Blaming Atlanta / Komal Patel Mathew -- Biography of Jimmy Carter / Alan May -- Upon viewing "memory as medicine" / Mariana McDonald -- Good afternoon to me / Patrick McGinn -- Space camp moon-view / Jessica Melilli-Hand -- Holy porn tendril / Joseph Milford -- Singer on River Street, Savannah, Georgia / Michael Miller -- Weight ; Question / Judson Mitcham -- Learning how to kill / Maren O. Mitchell -- And what of camellias / Sally Stewart Mohney -- Evening out-Atlanta, 1952 / Janice Townley Moore -- A million fans / Tony Morris -- Georgia sunset / Eric Nelson -- Prayer after a rare South Georgia snow / Jeff Newberry -- Midshipmen / Laurah Norton --;Clamor ; The tie-snake / Nick Norwood -- Last love letter for autumn / Christina Olson -- Immanence / Lee Passarella -- Why we speak English / Lynn Pedersen -- Tomorrow / Oliver T. Perrin -- Blueridge bestiary / Patrick Phillips -- The Mona Lisa in Spain knows ; Why I can't come in the side door anymore / Stephen Roger Powers -- Vinca minor / Randy Prunty -- Two views / Wyatt Prunty -- Eleventh / Janiesse Ray -- The dupe / Andrea Rogers -- Where I'm from / Rosemary Royston -- Emory Epiphyte #2 / James Sanders -- Storm pit / Mike Saye -- Stone fruit / Emily Schulten -- Romeo and Juliet of the Chattahoochee / Ron Self -- My father told me / Nancy Simpson -- Smartmouth at large ; Smartmouth and the mysteries / James Malone Smith -- Alphabet ; Reading groups / R. T. Smith -- Mercury ; Anselm / Gregory Vincent St. Thomasino -- Scent of ash / John Stephens -- Ghost train / Todd Stiles -- Nemerov's "a primer of the daily round" held as a mirror up to nature ; Into the furthest regions / Leon Stokesbury -- Bicycle number nine / Russell Streur -- The red weaver / Chirstine Swint -- Just a closer walk with thee / Marianne Szlyk -- This quiet lake / Alice Teeter -- Bearing / Jessica Temple -- Waiting for the Good Humor Man / Patricia Percival Thomas -- Enrico Caruso remembers Helen Keller / Jeanie Thompson -- Carpenter bee / Natasha Trethewey -- Ghosts / Meyme Curtis Tucker -- Vale of soles / Dan Veach -- Poem in favor of driving / Sharon Venezio -- Elegy in the collapse of a beautiful structure / J. Phillip Walker -- Threads out of the body / Sue Walker -- Outside Winn Dixie in Suburban Plaza / William Walsh -- The bride / Theresa Welford -- The conversation turns to wide-mouthed jars / Jennifer Wheelock -- This is only a test / Carey Scott Wilkerson -- Summer thunderstorm / M. L. Williams -- Everything useful I know about life I learned from Margaret Mitchell / Patricia Williams -- Trembling earth / Austin Wilson -- Your voice surprised me / Linda Wimberly -- Mother used only paper napkins / Pete Wingard -- On Mondrian's grave / Crystal Woods -- Grief map / William Wright -- Whole hog / Kevin Young -- Georgia / Andrew Zawacki -- Spring comes to the Coastal Plain / Rebecca Ziegler -- Contributor's notes and biographies.