Oxford American # 93, Summer 2016

POINTS SOUTH

The Blue Ether of Another World, by Diane Roberts

Blaise St. Clair, a story by Rebecca Wells

The Art of Distillation, by Phil McCausland

Choke Chains, a story by Kalisha Buckhanon

The Mournfulness of Cities, by David Searcy

Natural Resources, by J. M. Martin

Grandmother, Revisited, a story by Manuel Gonzales

Local Fare:
Who Owns Southern Food?
by John T. Edge and Tunde Wey

POETRY

Three Poems, by Kwame Dawes

Work
Time
Past Fifty

SOUTHERN JOURNEYS
Travels Through Space and Time

Skyline Drive
The highway that led my grandfather into the mountains
by Lavinia Jones Wright

Spinning in Space
A cross spider adapts to microgravity
by Elena Passarello

Places That Have No Names
El Paso to Lynchburg by train
by Holly Haworth

Bloody Highway 90
Homage to a Louisiana back road
by Rien Fertel

Steal Away
Leaving Arkansas for good
a story by Daniel Black

Ravaged Beauty
Cumberland Island, wild but changing
by Megan Mayhew Bergman

The Last Florida Indians Will Now Die
The westward plight of the Apalachee
by Justin Nobel

In the Company of Good Things
Tailing Zora Neale Hurston and Langston Hughes across the South
by Yuval Taylor

FEATURES

Split
by Clay Byars

The Ballad of Harlan County
by Elyssa East

Newlyweds
A story by Eric Boehling Lewis

OMNIVORE

The Brightest Still the Fleetest
Andy Sweet’s Miami Beach
by Lauren Groff

Cooking with Chris:
Savory Deviate Delight
by Chris Offutt



Art by: Ben Sklar, Jack Spencer, Selina Román, Chas Rowe, Allison Jarek, Clare Leighton, Louviere + Vanessa, John Chiara, Winfred Rembert, Henry Taylor, Brandon Thibodeaux, James Ostrer, Meg Griffiths, Josh Verduzco, Cig Harvey, Megan Cump, McNair Evans, Scott Daniel Ellison, Dale Niles, Sarah Hadley, Eric Ogden, Tom Martin, Bob Howard, Mike Reddy, Andy Sweet, Christopher Rodriguez

Cover: Photo by Ben Sklar