gravel.
POETRY

Lisa Alden laments weak coffee

Sheila Arndt is a riotous revolution of color

​Maggie Blake Bailey ​writes of a father who worries for his daughter

Listen to Emily Cinquemani's Van Gogh

Joyce Chong defines ghost
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Brittany Hailer drinks the river dry

Fight lobster with Stephanie McCraw

Caleb Nelson shares an Envelope Elegy

Don't tell Alexandra Smyth you don't love her

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FLASH PROSE

Read Paul Beckman​'s thrilling, live-action boxing match

Tom Harper writes a Redneck Rhapsody

Al Hogan remembers Spain
 
Take a trip down Alligator Alley with Caitlin McGill

Jono Naito 
has strange friends

Nicolas Poynter shows us the Color of the Sky
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​Anna Silverstein compels a boy with her mug over the frozen Charles


CREATIVE NONFICTION

Yellow makes Rachel Croskrey melancholy

The music inside Gordon Donnelly

Kelsey Gentry 
​meditates on spring
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Gabrielle Reid ​fears her children will grow up underwater

Huma Sheikh tells of best friends who face tragedy together


BOOK REVIEWS/AUTHOR INTERVIEWS

​Ginger Beck​ reviews "A Quarter, A Dine, and Two Copper Pennies—A Look at Homelessness and the Heart”

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FICTION

Wayne Cresser evokes a compassionate meaning behind having a dog you love
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Join Joseph E. Fleckenstein's circus

James Kincaid is being recorded
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David Lerner Schwartz shows the connection between tea and intimacy 

Cari Scribner lives at the carnival

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MULTIMEDIA 

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​William C. Crawford shows us the beauty in Ocracoke Island

​Allen Forrest visits the railroad yard

Gaze at Allison Merriweather's "Provocative Eve" 

​See the world through the eyes of Gina Williams

Go for a walk with Christopher Woods

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February 2016 issue of Gravel. 

This magazine is produced by the MFA program
 in creative writing at the University of Arkansas at Monticello editorial staff.

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