Issue 28 – Spring 2023

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Elizabeth Lutyens, Editor in Chief
“It’s Only Human”

Interview

Great Smokies Writing Program Coordinator Jennifer McGaha With Special Features Editor Janet Moore
“What’s Next: Building on Firm Foundations”

Nonfiction

Amy Jane Lynch
“Walking the Barrel”
Amanda Burns
“Remembering Clare: A Love Story”

Fiction

Billie Harper Buie
“Refugees”
Pam J. Hecht
“The Lions”

Poetry

Judith A. Davis
“Stopping by a Farmstand on a Summer Afternoon”
Karen Luke Jackson
“Open Heart”
Margaret Bishop
“Dying to Be Born”
Zoe Rhine
“The Prankster’s Laughter Stone-Skips Across the Lake”

Craft Session

Bruce Spang
“Syntax as Style in Poetry:
The Invisible Craft of an Artful Sentence in Poetry”

Archives

Elizabeth Lutyens,
Editor-in-Chief, Founder
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.

After Math

by Nancy Mills

Morning breaks and my nose fills
with the stench of earth
torn up and laid out
on a rough track

Last night
out of darkness came
a force that broke
trees like matchwood.
Spiky stumps. Sky
now such an innocent blue.

Morning breaks secrets
from behind closed doors.
Bits and pieces
trashed in a yard.

Morning breaks people
with next to nothing.

Nancy Mills is a retired Episcopal priest and painter who writes poetry to express things beyond words. Not so much sermons as brief notes taken along the way home.

About After Math—This poem was written in response to my memory of a nearby tornado. It asks the question: Why do catastrophes happen to the poorest and least prepared?