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LIMESTONE . 01


A TRIBUTE TO JAMES BAKER HALL


"Among the gifts Jim has given to thousands of individuals and to the community at large is the gift of vision. Jim's rare eye on nature and human nature has allowed all who have known him and worked with him to see farther and deeper and better than they ever imagined that they could."

- Gurney Norman

 




TABLE OF CONTENTS

 
 
Introduction
 
Jo Ann Circosta Introduction
 
 
Preface
 
Gurney Norman A Half-Century of Excellence
 
 
Special Section: James Baker Hall
 
Rebecca Howell What I Know
For James Baker Hall on his 65th
 
James Baker Hall Portraits
Oh, yes, the Modiglianis
 
 
Interview
 
Jo Ann Circosta Poet in Situ: Davis McCombs
 
 
Poetry
 
Walter Bado The Comedy
 
Gay Baines Myth I
 
Barry Ballard The Earth
 
Thomas Robert Barnes Brevity
 
Kirsten Berkey-Abbot Tongue Holding
 
Julie Brooks-Barbour Desire
 
April Bolton Ballad of the Old Home
 
Louis Daniel Brodsky Leaving for Summer Camp
 
Geary Danihy Once Rumored Sweet
 
Mark DeCarteret Anywhere but the Cities: A Report
 
William Doreski Bitterns
 
Jennifer Dworschack-Kinter Full Moon
 
A. D. Fallon Where You Are
 
Paul Farrier Brown Thrashers
 
Carol Frith Harvesting Long Division
 
Amber A. Glynn Origami Beer
 
Joy Gonsalves Seeing Sara Baras
 
Mimi Hennessy Kiss on the Cheek
 
Rebecca L. Hillyer Quite Pleased and Proud
 
Rebecca Howell # Listen
What I Saw Today
 
Rebecca Lu Kiernan You Think with Rain
 
D. E. Laczi The View in Late Summer
 
John N. Miller On the Orient Express - January 1983
 
William Miller His Way
 
William Mullins Dreaming Back the Mountain
 
Tina Parker Professions of Faith
 
Michael Pegausch Cigarette #7
 
Linda Price Overheard in the Country
 
James S. Proffit Marriage
 
Howard Ramsby II American History 101
I wanted to be a poet
 
Phillis H. Ramsby Yesterday
 
Brit Redden Music from a Sordid Symphony
 
Phillip Sauerbeck Your Mouth
 
Keith Scott Only Human
 
Michael Smith The Cauldron in the Mirror
with Astors for Stars
 
Ben Stivers Stream Story
 
Virgil Suarez Alone @ Night Dot Com
 
David Tillinghast Revenir
 
C. W. Tweedy Black No More
Remembering my Father
 
Antiwan Walker Pastime; Or, Hue at Play
 
Martin Woodside Driver
 
John Wright ** Tracks
Third Grade
Unclaimed World
 
 
Photography
 
Sarah Wylie Ammerman Untitled 1
Untitled 2
 
Shilpi Gupta Brown Tong
Untitled
 
 
Prose
 
Carl Dimitri Looking at the Strange Shapes
 
T.R. Healy Empire of Her Own
 
Janice J. Heiss Snapshots from a Singles' Gallery
 
Rebecca Howell Bonsai
 
Roxanne M. Hurt *** The Provider
 
Dennis Must Lily Pond
 
Sara Odishoo Desire: Dying of Thirst
 
Janet Riehl How the Womantree Was Born
 
Sara Sahni ## Perfection
 
 





** Winner: Dantzler-Farquar Prize 2001, Poetry

*** Winner: Dantzler-Farquar Prize 2001, Prose

# Winner: Limestone Prize 2001, Poetry

## Winner: Limestone Prize 2001, Prose






















Advisors
James Baker Hall
Gurney Norman

Editors-in-Chief
Jo Ann Circosta
Rynetta Davis

Managing Editor
Christina Bentley

Poetry Editors
Chad Barbour
Phillis Rambsy
Antiwan Walker

Fiction Editors
Natasa Kovacevic
Julia Gardner
Jessica Livingston