The Fourth River

A Journal of Nature and Place-based Writing Published by the Chatham University MFA Program

Issue o.10 CONTRIBUTORS

FICTION/POETRY/NONFICTION

Laurel Anderson
- Apr 15, 2021 Wolf: Villain's Monologue; Willow; #insectapocalypse: a thread
Emma Aylor
- Apr 15, 2021 The Wood Room
Brent Jon Barber
- Apr 15, 2021 Electric Potential Or, Synapses on a Bike
P.V. Beck
- Apr 15, 2021 Fox Wakes to Cranes; Tightrope Walker
Michael Brosnan
- Apr 15, 2021 Day Birds at Night; Our Overburden
Abby Caplin
- Apr 15, 2021 Snake; Of Mere Living
Joellen Craft
- Apr 15, 2021 My Sudden Death: When Our Car Falls from the Chesapeake Bay Bridge
Mary Pacifico Curtis
- Apr 15, 2021 Silent No More
Noah Davis
- Apr 15, 2021 Mountain Salve; Arguing Again in the Afternoon
Todd Davis
- Apr 15, 2021 Bad Seed; Snapper
Mary Alice Dixon
- Apr 15, 2021 October Hands
Michelle Dyer
- Apr 15, 2021 The (Un)knowing
John Elliott
- Apr 15, 2021 Cloudless Desert
Molly Fuller
- Apr 15, 2021 The River will Bear You
Heather E. Goodman
- Apr 15, 2021 Taking Trees
Peter Grandbois
- Apr 15, 2021 [What We Do Not Sing]
Greg Hewett
- Apr 15, 2021 History Intrudes on Morning Tea; Night Stories, 12:01 a.m.
Ivan Hobson
- Apr 15, 2021 The Bricklayer:
D. Iasevoli
- Apr 15, 2021 Manhattan, Montana
Andrew Jarvis
- Apr 15, 2021 How Grownups Fire
Raina Joines
- Apr 15, 2021 Custom Cruise
Angelica Lai
- Apr 15, 2021 A Place Called
Sarah Ledbetter
- Apr 15, 2021 A U B A D E
Joanna Lee
- Apr 15, 2021 Outskirts, Rain, Deer; The More Things Change
Angie Macri
- Apr 15, 2021 Echo, Orion, in Steel Wood; Echo, Hector, in Burnt Corn
Justin Maxwell
- Apr 15, 2021 Of Daffodils
Donna Mendelson
- Apr 15, 2021 Nostos
Stelios Mormoris
- Apr 15, 2021 Man in Provincetown
Ruth Mota
- Apr 15, 2021 In Juanita's Garden
Gathondu Mwangi
- Apr 15, 2021 Planting Season
Kellene O'Hara
- Apr 15, 2021 Beautiful Water
Yara Omer
- Apr 15, 2021 My Earliest Memory of the Night Sky was Because of a Flat Tire
Dayna Patterson
- Apr 15, 2021 Daughter, Becoming
Beth Peterson
- Apr 15, 2021 Rescue
Allen M. Price
- Apr 15, 2021 Black Nature
Ayesha Raees
- Apr 15, 2021 Rope into String; Bless
Mervyn R. Seivwright
- Apr 15, 2021 Nine Months in Midwest Wheat Country—
Brody Lane Shappell
- Apr 15, 2021 Brief Guide to North Star Transfer Station; Fast Eddie
Chris Shorne
- Apr 15, 2021 El Dios de Los Cuchumatanes
Martha Silano
- Apr 15, 2021 After Apple Picking, Late Anthropocene; Swampland; and Words like salsuginous
MK Sturdevant
- Apr 15, 2021 Weminuche Cartogram
Tori Grant Welhouse
- Apr 15, 2021 Zig :: Zag
Sharon Whitehill
- Apr 15, 2021 Clay Pigeons
Linda Wilgus
- Apr 15, 2021 Salt on Her Skin
John Sibley Williams
- Apr 15, 2021 I Too Take Shelter in the Body; Postscript for a Flyover Country

ARTWORK

Louis Dennis
- Apr 15, 2021 Red Flowers with Snail Trail
Sherry Sahahan
- Apr 15, 2021 Pond Bubbles
- Apr 15, 2021 Icicles
- Apr 15, 2021 Peacock Hearts
Jocelyn Ulevicus
- Apr 15, 2021 Metamorphosis