Issue 29 – Fall 2023

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Elizabeth Lutyens, Editor in Chief
“Buried Treasure”

Interview

Pam Ruatto (Issue 1, Fall 2009)
“My Husband Hates How We Were”

Interview

UNCA Professor and Author Lori Horvitz with Special Features Editor Janet Moore
“Ready for Rocky Roads”

Nonfiction

Debbie DeWall
“The Beat Goes On”
Ginny Callaway
“Severe Weather and Tornadoes Kill 30 People, Plus 1”
Anne-Marie Dany
“The Covid Manager”
H.W. Florayn
“Grounds”

Fiction

Hope Donnellan
from Grief, Magic, and Boba
Lance P. Martin
from The Raiders

Poetry

Jean Cassidy
“A Very Short Story”
Sondra Hall
“Blue-Green Girlhood”
Janet Ford
“Flotsam, NC”
Rebecca Beck
“Race”
Ginger Graziano
“Sanctuary”
Paige Gilchrist
“Jaw Bone”
Priscilla Frake
“Small Imponderables”
Anne Maren-Hogan
“Across the Road”
Tom Meyer
“Porcupine”
Alida Woods
“What She Carried”
“My Smallness Holds Space for Wonder”
Dana Lichty
“What He Said Was, Your Body Is a Lemon.”
Jerry Krajnak
“Walking Patricia Home”

Reflections

Patrick Pickering
“Some Ideas, a Scene, and a Star-Studded Cast”

Archives

Elizabeth Lutyens,
Editor-in-Chief
Janet Moore,
Special Features Editor
Julie Abbott,
Submissions Editor
Patrick Pickering,
UNC Asheville Intern
Michael Mauney,
Photographer

Jennifer McGaha,
Great Smokies Writing Program Coordinator
Lilly Danzis,
GSWP Administrative Assistant
Tracey Rizzo,
Dean of Humanities, UNC Asheville

The Great Smokies Review is an online publication of The Great Smokies Writing Program, a joint effort of the UNC Asheville departments of Literature and Language, Creative Writing, and the Asheville Graduate Center.

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
We accept student fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction submitted by faculty of the Great Smokies Writing Program and other UNC Asheville writing programs. Submitters will receive a guidelines checklist to complete.

The Farmer

by Starlina Rose

The hat
Dust and black grease-soiled

Rumpled pack
Marlboros half-empty before his searching fingers
Fresh
White cigarette
Old cold lungs. Wizened face.

Cardboard matchstick struck
Dimmer the flame in the rising day

Coffee on the Liar’s Bench
Every early morning
Outside the Shell Service Station
Cast in the shade of why
He can only sit there

Seeing the morning
A little longer than before

Starlina Rose lives in Asheville and is currently working on her first novel.

About The Farmer–“The Farmer” came to me in the car after we (my mother was driving) had pulled away early one morning from the gas station. I jotted down the poem as soon as I could find a piece of paper.