gravel.

POETRY
Take a vacation with CL Bledsoe

Zac Cahill writes of smoke and beauty

​​Grant Clauser's ​cursed hill

Michael Vander Does riffs on the violence of man

Brian Fanelli on rednecks & zombies

Noel C. Hoffman's life lessons

Paul Ilechko counts the mileposts of time

Laura Ingram's in the key of E

Tim Kahl digs down deep

Jen Karetnick considers the Frigate

Dane Karnick's steps carry memories

Kathryn Merwin pens a mosaic

Lloyd Milburn orchestrates his narrative

Kate Soules ​takes a ticket

​​MaryJo Thomas ​muses on a poem by Li Po

Andrea Vaughan writes on theory & relationships

Joanna M. Weston opens the drawer

Sheryl White ​clings to sea glass and salt air

CREATIVE NONFICTION
​Drive through the ​Hearts of Space with ​Marion Agnew

Clare Breen waits for the bloom

Carrye Harris-Franzel wonders what's real

Nicole Hoelle talks of what we do to live

Rachel Laverdiere flashes some teeth

Lisa C. Taylor rises and falls

Study the ABC's of teaching with Jennifer Watkins
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FLASH/HYBRID
Ana Arredondo finds the pointy end

​Clara Mae Barnhart brings good food and beer, too


Mary J. Breen on her mother's purse

Mark Danowsky bids farewell to Cowboy Dan

Kevin Lichty reads the leaves

Chad Matthews pays for grits

​Jennifer Met ​goes hunting

Alyssa D. Ross shares family secrets

Jennifer Schomburg Kanke skates around a name

Sandy Smith on feline tendencies 

Jack Somers writes about fatherhood

Claire Tollefsrud begins with a flying apple

Orçun Ünal ​walks and listens

Tyler Wilborn becomes three people



FICTION
Melissa Benton Barker combs a dark beach

​Study German with ​Rachel Duboff

Jennifer Fliss leaves a trail of hearts

Doug Harrison digs into childhood

Carla Kirchner visualizes air

​Jude Roy's Mrs. Thibodeaux rereads an essay

Joe P. Squance brings a change in self

Shruti Swaminathan has a ticket to ride

Daniel Thompson dreams of knives & rocks

Amie Wolf's gentle heart
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MULTIMEDIA
Daniel Beaudoin's ​words matter

Jerry Cagle's artistic lens

Michael Hower follows the highway

Joseph S. Pete shoots found paint

​​Alyssa Yankwitt ​is half woman, half goddess

TRUMPED-UP
Threa Almontaser names the monsters

​Kat Gonso fights the patriarchy with glitter & booze

Kevin Hearle on saccharine politics

Ann Marie Meehan gets into a dog fight

C.J. Miles brings up "facts"

henry 7. reneau, jr. evaluates the status quo

Frances Tuoriniemi  is somewhat factual

Ping Wang provides hydration for the soul
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M. B. Wolf outs the abusers

Christopher Woods sees the ash in the air

Jane Yolen brings the satire

Book Review
Casey Schmauder reviews The Right Way to Be Crippled & Naked: The Fiction of Disability
You are presently reading the 
Summer 2017 issue of Gravel. 

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

Cover image by Alyssa Yankwitt.




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