Celebrate 30 years of the OA.
With original work from Imani Perry, Kristen Arnett, Diane Roberts, and so many others, our Spring Issue honors our past and looks into our expansive future.
Magazine
Issue 84, Spring 2014
“I received Flannery O’Connor’s Prayer Journal while in residence at the Sewanee Summer Writers’ Conference. I carried the galley around with me for a week, the book always in my backpack. Flannery O’Connor’s prayers. Flannery O’Connor’s prayers.” — Jamie Quatro, “The Sound Before the Song”
Essays by Steve Featherstone, Rachel Monroe, John T. Edge, Courtney Balestier, Kate Sweeney, and more. Fiction by C.E. Morgan. Poetry by Rebecca Gayle Howell. Photographs by Maude Schuyler Clay.
Points South
Five poems by Rebecca Gayle Howell
Keith O'Brien remembers the relocation
Where James Seay's books fall open
Kate Sweeney attends a burial at sea
Delta Dogs: photographs by Maude Schuyler Clay
Nathan Salsburg revisits Texas Island, Mississippi
Courtney Balestier and the king of the bean people
Rachael Maddux hails Dayton, Tennessee
Local Fare: John T. Edge on potlikker's moment
Features
SNAKELANDIA: The Great Florida Python Hunt
by Steve Featherstone
SPINNING STEEL INTO GOLD
by Ginger Dellenbaugh
MY FRIEND, NOTHING IS IN VAIN
a story by C. E. Morgan
Omnivore
THE SOUND BEFORE THE SONG
Flannery O'Connor's Prayer Journal
by Jamie Quatro
WHAT WE SHARE
The stories of Elizabeth Spencer
by William Giraldi
Cooking with Chris:
CHICKEN EGGS
by Chris Offutt
Art by Benjy Russell, Holly Andres, Melissa Ann Pinney, McNair Evans, Greg Westfall, Joe Leavenworth, Fabian Häusermann, Alexis Vasilikos, Maude Schuyler Clay, Lara Shipley, Allison V. Smith, Aaron Cohen, Tammy Mercure, David Hilliard, Steve Featherstone, Tom Martin, Jody Fausett, Tom Chambers, Eleanor Davis, Kathleen Robbins, Jenny Gummersall
Cover: “Portrait of Stacy Kranitz in Dowelltown, Tennessee” by Benji Russell