The Mockingbird is the student arts and literary magazine published as a partnership between the East Tennessee State University Department of Literature & Language and the Department of Art & Design.
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The Mockingbird
2024
Editor: Emily Wilson and Jake Lawson
AQ Hanna [dream journal]; AQ Hanna [diario de sueños]; AQ Hanna [in the car, alone], AQ Hanna [June]; AQ Hannah [July]; Cade Campbell [Young Love]; Cade Campbell [Amor Juvenil]; Hannah Smith [Anesthetic Love Song]; Hannah Smith [Canción de Amor Anestesiada]; Claire Webb [i'm sorry all you bath lovers]; Claire Webb [Moonwalker]; Claire Webb [Serenity]; Claire Webb [I wasn't There the Night He Died]; Elizabeth Carpenter [Constellations]; Elizabeth Carpenter [On This Farm]; Elizabeth Carpenter [In Their Narrative]; Rachel Kincaid [Morning Glories]; Ben Bilderback [Edward Hopper's Nighthawks]; L.C. Francis [Diary of a Trans Girl]; L.R. Tipton [Thank You]; L.R. Tipton [I Miss You]; Abigail Wolfenbarger [Fluoxetine (20mg)]; Raven Rhue [Framed]; Raven Rhue [Bath]; Raven Rhue [The Need for Brevity]; Emma Sheedlo [in November I burn monsters]; Emma Sheedlo [Roadside Cycles]; Emma Sheedlo [an open letter to my black pumps (and the girl who wore them)]; Hayden Cogdell [Caustic]; Hayden Cogdell [Chlorine]; Hayden Cogdell [From the Tunnel, I Heard Death]; Hayden Cogdell [Hum]; Hayden Cogdell [The Rite of Rot]; Percy Smalygo [honeysuckle leaves caught between your teeth]; Percy Smalygo [american reckoning]; Percy Smalygo [perseus]; Percy Smalygo [you're doing fine]; Eleanor Flory [char.lady]; Liam McCroskey-Shope [Flowers]; Liam McCroskey-Shope [The Old, The True]; Liam McCroskey-Shope [My Home in Seymour]; Alexis Calain [Condemned be the Fruit]; Alexis Calain [Roe to Rights]; Alexander Brown [God Bless Appalachian Modernization]; Alexander Brown [Kick of Love]; Sierra Arguello [Hallowed Be Thy Kingdom]; Sierra Arguello [Unfinished Set]; Sierra Arguello [Where Ends Meet]; Sierra Arguello [Why I Don't Let Go]; Abby Clement [History]; Abby Clement [Home]; ACE [Who Am I?]; Kelsey Ann Guy [HATE: HATE]; Kelsey Ann Guy [Reality Check]; Kelsey Ann Guy [I Know My Ending]; Remy Indigo [Glass Houses]; Camille Hagelberg [I only have one plastic hairtie, so I have to do this when it snaps]; Camille Hagelberg [I]; Camille Hagelberg [overlapping folds]; Camille Hagelberg [october euphoria clouds]; Eleanor Weedman [I Am]; Eleanor Weedman [Radio]; Eleanor Weedman [Sunday]; Eleanor Weedman [Asphalt]; Elias Murphy [Ineffable Love]; Elias Murphy [Micheal Knowles]; Madeline Rodenberg [My Mother is a Fish]; Madeline Rodenberg [Rosemary's Baby]; Dominique Snedeker [Primal Instincts of Childbirth]; Dominique Snedeker [Seasonal Delirium]; Dominique Snedeker [Time Plays Tricks]; Haleigh Almbarak [Self Portrait 3]; Haleigh Almbarak [Supermarket Waltz]; Haleigh Almbarak [We Call This Girlhood]; Cal Blagg [Near Yet Far]; Cal Blagg [QPR], Cal Blagg [The North Calls]; Iris Caldwell [Sunny Summer Afternoon]; Iris Caldwell [Twilight Zone]; Iris Caldwell [Twilight Zone]; Iris Caldwell [When Losing a Friend]; Oliver Gragg [the cat and the finch]; Keeley Michael Cook [The Necessity of Coincidence]; Laken Greene [The Schoolgirl Revelation]; Laken Greene [Your Alzheimer's]; Laken Greene [Youthful Skin]; Morgan Fellers [Uriah’s Reprisal]; Elliot Lucey [Vampling]; Amanda Demirović [Fragments of Home]; Rebekah Autumn Gobble Standbridge [Tree Bark]; Laree McMurray [Conversation Piece]; Ava Martin [Golden Eagle]; Elizabeth Rowe [Home]; Callie Honaker [Eyes on Me]; Kathryn Ford [Aphrodite's Fountain]; Nathan Lanning [No Color]; Goreti Lopez [Transformation]; Donald Miller [Making Peace with the Past]; Nathan Wurmser [Creation]; Carson Haley [Requiem]; Rebecca Cox [Model Audi R8]; Morgan Bakaletz [There's Yearnin' in the River]; Blake San [Curio]; Suzi Peter [Going Insane Under Carnival Lights at the Tennessee Valley Fair]; Elisabeth Denis [Smoke]; Nicholas Artrip [Interlude in Numbers]; Elias Murphy [How to be a Man]; Briana Presley [Uncanny]; Quinn Daniels [FWD: ENGL 2120 002 — Messed Up, May Not Make It To Class]; Abby Clement [Dust Bunnies]; Elias Murphy [Sisyphus’ Notice]; Claire Webb [Lady]; Claire Webb [Birria Tacos]; Colby Lee Dugger [Little Lord Hellbender]; Claire Webb [The Lighter]; Claire Webb [When the Rain Comes Down on Leitchfield Road]; Raven Rhue [Where Words Fail]; Adeline Rosebush [Wraith of the Grave]; Gabriel Tabor [Of Gorro, Protector of Lorhèa]; Polaris Storm [The Deer of Nightshade]; Anonymous [The Chipped Beak of Birds]; Emma Sheedlo [The Goddess of Magnolia Valley]; Judges’ Biographies
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The Mockingbird
2023
Editor: Tanner Linkous
Matthew Powers [Uncle Ed]; Samantha Matney [The Secret Heart: A Memoir of My Grandfather Thurman Cooper’s Life]; Amara Bunten [Ode to Pudding Tane: A Life Well Lived and Poem to Commemorate It]; Amara Bunten [Storyteller]; Tuck Ledbetter [Autumn in Fall Branch, Tennessee]; Madison Stacey [Ultraviolet Thoughts]; Emily Wilson [Lover’s Quarrel]; Zoe Williford [they don’t like you when you’re sad]; AQ Hanna [half-lives]; Claire Webb [Bachata Songs]; Hannah Smith [A Comprehensive Study on Loneliness & the Tide]; Ethan Walker [the divine masculine]; Briana Presley [My Barbies are Disfigured, Not Dismembered]; Claire Webb [The Remnants of Julia Davis]; Kelsey Guy [Build Up, Break Down]; Tyler Wick [On Friends Both Dead and Dying]; Ethan Walker [Bodies Don't Sing], Tuck Ledbetter [Epistle]; Jonathan Stokely [A Thing Out of Place]; Camille Hagelberg [on not knowing]; Hannah Smith [Pavlov’s Lament]; Matthew Powers [Whitehackle]; Aly Puckett [Spookycorn]; Barbara Bell [Kimchi Pot with Lid]; Barbara Bell [Opossum]; Elijah Sells [Self Portrait with Bloody Nose]; Ethan Martinez [Eye]; Goreti Rodriguez [Copper Bug]; Kassidy Albert [Follow]; Kassidy Albert [Out of Bounds]; Kayla Byrd [Untitled]; Kristeen Beasey [Legend of Robert Johnson]; Laree McMurray [Who]; Laura Heath [Hare with Fork]; Lauren Whipple [The Killing of a Sacred Dear]; Rachel Belcher [Still Life with Game, Fruit]; Victoria Neal [Nautical Teacup]; Emma Sheedlo [Spiral]; Elias Murphy [My Gods are old]; Matthew Curry [Realm of Spirits]; Yanik Lazarov [THE CONTRACT]; Gabriel Davis [The Forgotten Dwarf]; Camille Hagelberg [a planet, a bluebird, a landscape]; Haley Jordan [ORCHIDS]; Haley Jordan [PRIVILEGE]; Tuck Ledbetter [Self-Portrait]; Emma Sheedlo [Citrinitas]; Emma Sheedlo [pansies and withered violets]; Tucker Jones [Willow on the Shore]; Claire Webb [Vincent’s Sunflowers]; Jonathan Stokely [Tulip Trees]; Jonathan Stokely [Outside the Holy City]; Tyler Wick [It is Just and Right to Steal Kombucha from Whole Foods]; Ethan Walker [Wind Down]; Abigail Wolfenbarger [Morning Dew]
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The Mockingbird
2022
Editor: Emily Price
Emily Price [Editor’s Note]; Micheal Bumgarner [Artist’s Statement]; Emrie Gilbert [“The Sins of the Fathers Visited upon the Children,” or How I Lived More-or-Less Openly Queer in the Southern Baptist Church]; Korbin Rhue [Playing Gods: An Aspiring Author’s Guide to Creating a Fantasy World That Feels Real to Your Readers]; Kylee Phalen [Prodigal Daughter: A Queer Christian’s Open Letter to the Church]; Ethan Walker [Hit]; Wendy Gourley [Seeing in the Dark]; Elias Murphy [Who I Am]; Andy Demczuk [Lesdiguières]; Amara Bunten [Method Acting]; Sappho Stanley [Like a Bosch]; Wendy Gourley [Butterflies]; Courtney Harvey [roolF eht no sI gniR ehThe Ring Is on the Sink]; Michelle Bravender [Forgotten Magic]; Emily Katt [The Moon-Eyed People]; Phi Hagelberg [Honeysuckle]; AQ Hanna [love, again]; Emma Sheedlo [corrosion]; Hannah Smith [Metacarpal Melancholy]; Hannah Smith [My Mother's Blessing]; Holly Todaro [A Witness, a Testimony]; Sappho Stanley [To the Dried McDonald's Fry in my Bag]; Andy Demczuk [AR for the Ears™]; Phi Hagelberg [a shell-shaped brain]; Phi Hagelberg [where I go when I masturbate]; Phi Hagelberg [A Year or Two Ago]; Chloe Philpot [blessing your hometown]; Chloe Philpot [I SEND MY CONDOLENCES TO THE SOUTH BUT LOVE IS SWEET AND I WANT TO TASTE IT]; Emrie Gilbert [Elegy for my Sibling]; Emrie Gilbert [grave-marker journey]; Emrie Gilbert [Hunter's Blessing]; Amara Bunten [her body is a graveyard]; Emily Katt [To Prepare]; Lilith Erbach [Eden: A Series of Haikus]; John Tipton [The Crash of a Wave]; Tuck Ledbetter [To Thomas Merton]; Tanner Linkous [Turning Off]; Tyler Wick [Late May 2014, the Day after a Storm]; Tyler Wick [An Act of Cleaning]; Tyler Wick [Everyone's Father Is a Carpenter]
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The Mockingbird
2021
Editor: Abby N. Lewis
Chris Walonski [Superstition]; translation by Cindy Castle [Superstición]; Leticia Pizzino [Unlocking Hearts]; Amara Bunten [Deep River, Shallow Water]; Holly Todaro [Salvatore Elboro]; translation by Allen C. López [Salvatore Elboro]; Courtney Harvey [A Letter]; Cassie Selleck [Past Time]; translation by Rachel Reid [Pasa Tiempo]; Rhea Norris [Lying in Plain Sight: Deception through an Eating Disorder Lens]; Michelle Bravender [Life Half Lived]; Diane Mallett-Birkitt [I Am That Mom]; Donna Paulson [Barren Voices]; Zach Hicks [Amnion]; Emily Price [beestings]; Mallory Spisak [Annihilations]; Emily Price [ars protestor]; Jessica Dunker [Short Supply]
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The Mockingbird
2020
Editor: Sam Campbell
Cheston Axton [Dropping One Hundred and Twenty Feet in Four Seconds]; Matthew Bennett [Meltdown #?]; Jessica Dunker [Border of Success]; Nancy Jane Earnest [Roan Mountain Rain]; Scottie Garber-Roberts [Scenes in the Life of a Modern Woman]; Haley Grindstaff [Ad Astra]; G. Johnson [The Pool]; Abby N. Lewis [4th of July; Someone’s in the Attic]; Alex Mauger [Gollum Sonnet]; Dillon McCroskey [Do You Hear the Creek Talking?; Fever Dream]; Harley Mercadal [A Contemporary Experience of Death; A Trailer’s Secret; Grad School Conversations; Una experiencia contemporaránea de la muerte; Unforgiven]; William Rieppe Moore [Night Watch; The scent of early morning coffee clouds the dawn]; Matthew Powers [Star Shells; The Ruins of God’s Corpse]; Emily Price [Collards and Turmeric; Flowering Weeds in Late Spring; Fruit, Stone, and Soil]; Amber Rookstool [Autumn-Colored Memory; Once upon a Time a Girl Believed in Magic; There Is a Yellow Rose on the Scroll of My Violin]; Dayton Sheffield [Under the Hummingbird’s Wing]; Trevor Stanley [Be My Baby; Boys Can’t Wear Makeup]; Sam Campbell [An Interview With Darius Stewart]; Zoey Thomas [Lilliana]; Emily Williams [California Butterflies]
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The Mockingbird
2019
Editor: Matthew Gilbert
Sam Campbell [Nightwatchers; Waffle House]; Brynne Carlisle [Better to be Pissed Off, Than to be Pissed On]; Elizabeth Chapman [Communication]; Megan Cruey [Wearing Hajib in London: The Tale of a Bond Formed Abroad]; Jessica Dunker [The Sound of Color]; Nancy Jane Earnest [Conjuring; Measures of Necessity]; Olivia Ellis [Jungle Fever]; Matthew LA Gilbert [A Conversation With Tamara Baxter]; Lia Hall [A Bookish Love]; Amber Howard [Eve’N Adam]; Kayla Ireson [The Rebuff of Discovery]; Abby Lewis [0.6 Inches; Over the Shoulder of the Moon; Sentries of the Cemetery]; Dillon McCroskey [Paralysis Under Popcorn Ceilings]; Micah McCrotty [Cartography; The Grey Hawk]; Rieppe Moore [Kindle Gathering; Lines Held in Husk]; Raina Nief [Untitled (Blue quilt)]; Hannah Oakes [I’ll Have the Steak]; Emma Owens [Ella Va, Poco a Poco; She Goes, By and By]; Emily Price [Earthworm Exodus; Greenville, TN; Styrofoam]; Lizzy Rees [Untitled (bag with rifle)]; Amber Rookstool [A Goddess’s Hysteria; Cat Scratches; Shaking Ground; Tierra Temblorosa]; Dayton Sheffield [Three Seconds]; Lacy Snapp [Heart Pine; Red Oak; Roble Rojo]; Zoey Thomas [Juliana]
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The Mockingbird
2018
Editor: Kara M. Russell
Jillian Bailey [Faded]; Taylor Campbell [Move to Jupiter]; Elizabeth Chapman [Sepsis]; Arizona Clawson [13%; November]; Thomas Chase Clayton [Alcohol, Love, and Other Things that Kill You]; Alexandria Craft [Electric Love; Watauga Lake in Autumn]; Brooke Day [Seated and Lovely]; Kelly Dorton [Alternative Quotes]; Nancy Jane Earnest [Home before Dark (Autumn Reflections along I-26)]; Jeremy Fahn [Close Distance; Meaningless Stare]; Seth Grindstaff [Letter to Dreamer]; Kayla Hackney [The Imposter]; Bardley Hartsell [August Chapel]; Zöe Hester [MOASS]; Janice Hornburg [October Shower; Orogeny]; Mark Hutton [Old South]; Emily Johnson [Delicacy]; Rachel Nicole Lawson [Everystudent]; Emily Williams McElroy [Sacrament]; Andrew Miller [A Field and a Fire]; Tess Montana [Pretty Lips]; William Rieppe Moore [Before the Bird Went Weightless]; Katie Murphy [To Love and to Cherish]; Avery Myers [Heron]; Raina Nief [Escaping Consumerism]; Hannah Purdy [October, 1938]; Elizabeth Rees [Reflection]; Amber Rookstool [Off the Blue Ridge Parkway towards Alleghany]; Calvin Ross [Forest Soliloquy; Keeper of the Plains]; Amanda Sawyers [On Funerals and Family Reunions]; Hannah Schean [The Eye of the Night]; Lacy Snapp [Fear of Getting Wet]; Kalliope Strapp [Masculine vs Feminine]; Adam Timbs [Blackberry Picking; Spring’s First Rain]; Katie Watts [Downed Logs; Over Grown]; Alexis Whitaker [Interruption]; Ashlyn York [Manhandling]
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The Mockingbird
2017
Editor: Danielle Byington
Michelle Benson [Sugarcoated]; Blaine Boles [A Portrait of My Mother; Ode to Cockroaches; Place d’Italie, June 14th, 2016; To Marlies, The Fun of Living in and Leaving Delirium]; Brandon Bragg [Close to the Moon]; Matthew Brown [Philosophy Department]; Rickey Bump [Meta-Forms]; Gabe Cameron [The Red Maple]; Rebecca Cox [Sentiments 3 & 4]; Brooke Day [Honey, Sweetie, Sugar]; Nancy Jane Earnest [Blue Chair]; Kathryn Haaland Greene [Don’t Let Go]; Seth Grindstaff [Styrofoam and String]; Rick Harris [Respect]; Bradley Hartsell [Mia’s Non-accredited Biology Course of Anthropologic Learning; The In-Between (Or, En Svenska Historia)]; Jonathan Hill [Bethlehem; Interview with Dr. Don Johnson]; Janice Hornburg [The Names of Stars]; Mark Hutton [Midlife; River of Salvation]; Don Johnson [Bucket Soccer; House by the River; Things Partially Obscured, in the Dark or Far Away; Total Eclipse: Rock Creek, Montana]; Kelsey Kiser [Before the Council]; Abby N. Lewis [In-Between, Mirror Perceptions]; Keith Maultbay [Duck Pond]; Katie Murphy [Emily]; Andrew Norris [Illusion and Virile]; Emily Parris [Amethyst]; Shai Perry [Self Discovery]; Jared Sapp [Mavka]; Hannah Schean [Toothless]; Todd Simmons [Pythagorean Decay]; Jodie Strapp [Submarine]; Adam Timbs [Epiphany of a Defeatist Who Stubbornly Fished a Rainstorm on His Birthday, September 7th, 2014]; Michelle Wanzor [Out of Your Control]
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The Mockingbird
2016
Editor: Jessica Hall
Riley Armstrong [2084]; Brian Baker [Heretica Malleus]; Matthew J. Brown [A Functional Use of Space]; Patrick Burke [Soda Fired Vase]; Carmen Burroughs [Honeysuckle]; Danielle Byington [Calamine Typewriter; Conception; Words, with You in Mind]; Gabe Cameron [Juxtaposition]; Catherine Pritchard Childress [The Cinnamon Peeler’s Wife; Bathsheba’s Bath; Blossoming Indigo]; Joshua Cole [Four Seasons]; Brooke Day [Ornament]; Nancy Jane Eanest [Scraps of a Life]; Olivia Ellis [Grumpy Livie]; Matthew Gilbert [Contingency]; Jonathan Hill [Chiaksan; Buried in the Mountain]; Hunter Hilton [A List of Things Someone]; Janice Hornburg [How to Become a Fossil]; Alisa Johnson [Flower]; Lindsey King [Sparking]; Katie Lea [Meta Moments]; Rachel Maynard [Triggered: Reading with a Raw Heart]; Beth Miller [At What Cost]; Shalam Minter [Fracture 1 & 11]; Amanda Musick [Mother Is My Light]; Andrew Norris [This Looks Like a Job for Aquaman]; Elizabeth Saulsbury [Deserted]; Kelsey A. Solomon [A Song for My Mooresburg Springs Mothers; Because they told me to write my own history; Interview with Catherine Pritchard Childress]; Adonica Supertramp [A Shift in Perspective]; Linda Tipton [Albatross]; Laura Traister [Alcedo Atthis; Beach Seining; Circumventing the Street Preacher; Indian Morning; The Interruption]; Kathryn Haaland [I Am Something New]; Whitney Parkinson [Flow]; C.J. Wehr [Unwanted Changes]; Haley White [Untitled Owl]
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The Mockingbird
2015
Editor: Jacob Vines
Blaine Boles [My Father]; Kevin Brown [Heterophemize (from A Lexicon of Lost Words], Latibulate (from A Lexicon of Lost Words]]; Dayna Bruell [Black and Blue]; Danielle Byington [About a Cheerleader I Used to Know, The Shining, Thunder and Nursery Rhymes, On The Lady and the Unicorn]; Raleigh Cody [Broken Handle, Digging Trench in Unicoi, TN]; Rima Day [Untitled]; V. Kelsey Ellis [Doomed Beauty]; Tucker Foster [Excerpts from “Driving Like an Idiot”]; Lauren Fowler [The Cut]; Trish Gibson [On Jack and the Dead Old Lady in the Bathtub from Brantner: Annalee 16, Taylor 24, Mariah 18, Catlett: Anna 16, Jackson 12]; Matthew L. Gilbert [Counting Thunder on Edgewater Drive, After a Summer Rain, The Makeup Box ]; Lyn Govette [Meditations on a Storm]; Kathryn Haaland [Untitled (Ring]]; Michael Hale [Three Wise Men, Atrocities]; Hannah Harper [Jill]; Cory Howell [Hospital Meadows, Drive after Rain]; Becca Irvin [Tapered]; Megan King [Katrina]; Freddie Lyle [Contraption]; Emily Matney [Balance]; Beth Miller [Autumn Road, Interview with Kevin Brown]; Priyanka Modi [Tenfold’s Light Hide]; Daniel Isaac Ratliff [Walking the Right Way: Coming to Terms with My Pentecostal Holiness Upbringing]; Tyler Ridgeway [Time Capsules and With & Without]; Kelsey A. Solomon [My first cup of coffee, After Reading Hélène Cixous on a Windy October Evening, the Female Poet Writes for Herself]; Dana T. Speight [The Sunflower Room];Mary Emily Vatt [Chopin Nocturne Op. 9 No. 2]; Susan Voorhees [Rise and Fall]; Chantel Wehr [Speak with Me (The Seeds)]
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The Mockingbird
2014
Editor: Maggie Colvett
Andrew Barnes [Good Stock]; Josh Blevins [Firebird]; Joseph Bowman [Epilogue]; Nikki Buckner-McCoy [Bargaining]; Andrew Butler [Octet and Sestet from an Asheville Balcony, Convalescent Haiku, Alchemy, Coming of Age Again and The Graduate]; Danielle Byington [Children until We Die]; Disconnected Rima Day [Quilt]; Ashley Fox [Baptism, Interview with Jane Hicks, His Girl]; Hannah Harper [Selkie]; Hunter Hines [Inward Spiral]; Mary Hunter [Learning Norn Iron]; Becca Irvin [Altered Vessel]; Storm Ketron [Origin: Johnson City, TN]; Derek Laurendeau [Pop-Up Book I , Metamorphosis]; Kimberly Leland [Empty Nest]; Caroline Lowery [Stella]; Freddie Lyle [Untitled II]; Kelly Meadows [Seek]; Andrea Menendez [Radio Children]; Shalam Minter [Mirror, Mirror]; Jerianne Paul [Go Singing into Zion, Rafters]; Tyler Ridgeway [The Void]; Lauren Roberts [Yellow House with Sign]; Jared Sand [The Mouthpiece]; Joseph Sloan [Goddess of the Harvest:How I Met My Wife]; Cate Strain [For Piper on My 46th Birthday]; Daniel Taylor [Astray]; Adam Timbs [The Older City]; Jacob Vines [The Canyon Black]; Kaci Wells [Untitled]
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The Mockingbird
2013
Editor: Catherine Pritchard Childress
Matthew Allen [Decline]; Maria Bledsoe [Gentility of Steel for Jack Higgs]; Joseph Bowman [All That’s Left]; Keith Brake [Walk-Off]; Madison Brown [Blue Plums]; DeVan Burton [Lemons on the Avenue]; Sam Campbell [Fading]; Luke Champouillon [Cold steel infinity]; Maggie Colvett [Seasonal, Postdiluvians, Voie ]; Rima Day [Rococo Head]; Emily Eversgerd [Spring Frost]; Nancy Fischman [Bottle I]; Jane Hicks [Mistress Mine]; John Hodgson [Jormungandr]; Jake Ingram [Marie]; Heather Justice [Tortoise Man]; Laura Higgs Kappel [An Interview with Dr. Jack Higgs by His Daughter,Laura Higgs Kappel]; Robert Kottage [Bonnaroo 2007: A “Coming of Middle Age” Story]; Adam Lambert [Picture of My Father as a Young Man, April 18th , Words I wish we had]; Derek Laurendeau [Desire]; Jake Lawson [A Great Collapse]; Kim McCoy [Turtle Truck]; Nell McGrady [Painting in First Person]; Jody Mitchell [Plato’s Chair]; Daniel Morefield [When I Die]; Melanie Norris [Frank]; Jerianne Paul [Utah Territory, 1861]; Charles Anthony Perkins [Station 13: Atonement]; Rita Quillen [October Dusk]; Janet Leigh Robinson [Laura]; Laura Simpson [The Rabbit Pot]; Nicholas Smith [Flute, A Poem for the Palm of Your Hand]; Natasha Snyder [Garden Party]; Alyssa Spooner [This Shed Had a Tree Fall on It, Dragon]; Greta Talton [Photograph from an Old Album]; Sara West [Silver Spoon, Have You Heard the One about the Methodist Who Walks into the Southern Baptist Convention?]
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The Mockingbird
2012
Editor: Sean I. Levenson
Rachel Bates [Traps]; Kyle Blauw [Body No. 1: I Simply Wanted the Physique of a Swimmer and Didn’t Really Care for Swimming]; Frances A. Borgers [Rappacini’s Goblet]; Spenser Brenner [Uncle Sam]; Sam Campbell [Interview with Rita Sims Quillen]; Therese L.Castaneda [A Belizean Folktale: The Misery of Margarita]; Catherine Pritchard Childress [Housewife’s Howl]; Maggie Colvett [To a friend, who yawned in fall]; Alex Dykes [City Wind]; Ashley Fox [Our Own]; Ashley Hagy [Sunset]; Charles Hagy [A Dance of Cultures: Working with Desert Flowers at the Shakespeare and Friends Renaissance Faire]; Josh Holley [Bob and Carson on a Couch]; Mollie Horney [Fearless]; Chris Witkowski, Kesha Miller & Hannah Irvin [Bartonian Wormhole]; Becca Irvin [Stoneware Ash Bowl]; Storm Ketron [Hang Me, Oh Hang Me]; Robert Kottage [The Red Skylark]; Kimberley Leland [Waterway]; Jody Mitchell [Juggling]; Mary Molony [What Are You Serving For]; Joseph Riner [Untitled (Series]]; Stephanie Streeter [Fever Dream, Or Carrying the Twins]; Victoria L. Vanderveer [Order Up]; Sara Sutterfield Winn [Visual Flight Rules, siren]; Katherine D. Zimmerman [Bobbi Rai’s Concrete Sculptures]
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The Mockingbird
2011
Editor: Jeff Holland
Jessica Augier [Step]; Ani Bolkan [She’s Long Gone, Snapshot 1]; Joshua Burd [Marle Bowl]; Caron Castle [Denial, Enspenserian Stanza]; Rebecca Catron [Desert Whispers]; Luke Champouillon [Done Playing]; Anthony Cole [In the Search of Thebes]; Lanora Davis [Corset]; Andrew Frost [Ben & David]; Sterlin Hammond [Floundering]; Bradley Hartsel [By and by, Vinyl]; Leona Holman [The Ojibawa Dictionary of Phrases: Gii-ayaa (Ge-a-ya] , V. 1. He Became My Hero]; Greg Houser [Adam Stanifer]; Robert Kottage [September]; Justin Kyle [March of the Dead]; Adam Lambert [The Pub and Roy Harper]; Tina Michael [Mother’s Postcards]; Ethan Palmer [Love Song , The Collapse]; Audrey Peters [Words Matter]; Juliet Ramirez [Balloon Fruit]; Andrew M. Scott [Untitled #3]; Brittany Shope [Losing It]; Derek Slagle [Oil Spill]; Sam Smith [Skulk Tale , Man’s Man]; Natasha Snyder [Woman’s Home Companion]; Daia Stager [Here]; Sherry Tucciarone [Inland]; Victoria Vanderveer [That’s the Way It Should Be: A Single Woman’s Questions On True Love , Anonymous]; Jacob Vines [Whisper Whisper , Mission Statement, Epilogues]; Evan Walker [7:17]; Brittany Willis [Untitled]; Issac Wilson [Their Daily Bread, A Trip to the Farm]
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The Mockingbird
2009
Editor: Adam Pacton
Maja Savic [Yuko, No. 2]; Brian Bowman[Circadian]; Tina "Kitty" Michael [Comperhension]; Kellye Evans [The Seven Crows]; Whitney L. Ellison [Deej]; Robert Kottage [Attention Deflicit Dingo]; David Mazure [Door]; Samantha Gregory [Education???]; Matthew Israel Byrge [Reading Beckett: A Fragment]; Reese Chamness [Lines in Space IA]; Meara Bridges [Your Words are like the Ocean]; Amanda Kate Rigell [Crossing Over]; Seth Arnall [HIV Baby Rattle]; Kimberly Foli [Oburoni Reflections]; Nicole Osborne [Starting Resist]; Jasen Bacon [The Office of Tipton, Hersch, and Long, Plastic Surgeons, No Smoking]; Shanon Kelley [Round Trip on the Rainbow Tail]; Isaac Wilson [Converstion Sur la Terrasse]; Hailey Eaton [Untitled]
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The Mockingbird
2008
Editor: Jeff King
David Mazure [Questionable Moral Action 261 & Sacred Geometry (Face #1] ]; Reese Chamness [Object #11]; Christine Buchanan [Figure No. 1]; Daniel Marinelli [And the Birds of Appetite ]; Jennifer Osborne [ The Azores]; John Simmons [Tall Bottles]; Jessica Augier[ Pushed Over, Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.]; T. M. Williams [A Diner]; Marshall Parrent [The Corpse of Anthony Edlemeyer]; Amber Nixon [Desert Sand Blows Away Army Wife's Dreams of Marriage, A Cat's Eye ]; Jeri Allison [Ganesha]; K. Hawkins [Beyond the Gate]; Fletcher Dyer [Health Care (Kinetic]]; Fletcher Dyer[ Tree of Life]; Mary Tapp [Brickston Mill]; Karen Ankabrandt [Morning Prayer]; Stephanie Sarten [Color Recreation]; Jerome Edward Arnold [Ritual]; T. M. Williams [Pine Mountain Road]; Ellie Rinehart [Mule Day: A Little Homespun Fun for the Good Ol' Boys and Girls of Columbia, Tennessee.]; Jason Burns [ Please Do Not Touch]; Jamie Merriman-Pacton [The Cruise Will Go On: Cuban Refugees and My Vacation in Wonderland]
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The Mockingbird
2007
Editor: Jonathan Snellings
Kathy Parker [Reluctant Aubade]; Joshua Burd [Pitcher]; Thomas Cantrell [Call]; Reese Chamness [Drowning]; Tyrone LaRue [Dana]; Lindy Russell [Devoured]; Mary Nees [In Entropy]; Christine Buchanan [Gina]; Stephanie Bowman [Lone Figure in a Dark Landscape]; Tyrone LaRue [Man]; David Mazure [Morality]; Travis Brown [Roan Mountain]; Mary Nees [A Vehement East Wind, Their Line Goes Out]; Kathy Parker [Birthday, Layover]; Daniel Marinelli [Phylactarian]; Betsy Allen [Rock It, Man: Confessions of a Music Pirate]; Natasha Conner [Hallowed Plastic]; Lori Ann Manis [Death, Be Proud]; Ciprian Begu [The Sphere]; Kathleen Libby [Girl in the Storm]; Samira Daniels [Untitled]
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The Mockingbird
2006
Editor: Jeanne G'Feller
Jerome Arnold ["Seraphino" Painting]; Brook Bailey ["Let's Roll": The Battle for United Flight 93, "Many Thank to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum: How I Realized Turning Twenty-Five isn't Going to Kill Me" ]; U. Bryant ["Silenced by Sociey-Battered Woman"]; Thomas Cantrell ["Lilies for Jenny"]; David Cooper ["Untitled" Graphite Drawing]; John Freese [" Untitled" Painting]; Greg Howser ["Burdens of tl1e Soul"]; Jeff King [''Just Business"]; Daniel Marinellj ["Train of Thought"]; John E. May["Coming Soon ... " ]; Daruth Padilla ["The Key" Intaglio]; Marshall Parrent [ "Different Angles"]; Kurt Pivko["Nest" Metals]; Cyndi Ramsey ["What Your Lamaze Class Doesn't Teach You: Survival Tips for Hosting a Party During Childbirth"]; Mandy Rhoden ["Everything but the ... " Color Photograph ]; Lindy Russell ["Glazed Over"]; Dese'Rae L. Stage ["The Ball" ]; Trent Stroud ["Re-creation" Collage]; Jennifer Tate["Shielded"]
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The Mockingbird
2005
Editor: Katherine Schram
Jeremy Arnold [Blasphemy]; Mattie Arwood [Momma Told me The Truth]; Kara Bledsoe [Autumn Deposits]; Erika Basile [The Red Dress]; Taylor Burnham [Rocket's Red Glare]; Atela Chandler [How Do I Measure Up?]; Laura Cross [A Collectible's Journey to my Clothes Hamper]; Kenny Dyer [Piper]; Jeremiah Jenkins [Faith]; Angelique Lynch [Tea for Two]; Lori Ann Maris [It's a Living?]; Adrienne Meade [Girl on a Trash Can]; Susan Monson [One Day at a Time, Feathers]; Daruth Padilla [Serenity]; Robert Prowse [All that Shimmers]; Kristin Riddle [Lillies]; Lindsay Russel [Coffee]; Jonathan Snellings [The Keeper, A Home Instead]; Ashley Thomas [Socks]; Nina Williamson [Affaires D'amour (Love Affair < With my closet>]
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The Mockingbird
2004
Editor: Melissa Greenwood
Aleta Chandler Cooper [Google]; LiaPun-Chuen [Plate Face]; Travis Eisenbise [Waiting]; Randall Green [1021 Railroad Ties]; Kari Hancock [And hold the Mustard]; Daryl Herron [Vituperation]; Jacqueline King [Self Portrait of a Librarian]; Jeff Kise [Saggar Bowl with Concave]; Kathleen Libby [I was Still Awake in Time for Church]; Angelique Lynch [Fly Away]; Michelle Martini [Fingers off the Home Keys, Chrome vs. Steel]; Laura Roehl [Bubbles]; Larry Rovers [Torn]; Katherine Schram [Spending an Afternoon with the Dead: Our Trek through the Parisian Catacombs]; Jonathon Snellings [Tears for Anthony]; Beth Steffey [My Mother's Memory]; Tommy Williams [Form Study #1]; Penny Willis [Shade]; Danriel Zimmer [Foxglove]
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The Mockingbird
2003
Editor: Shanda Miller
Karen Chappel [Ovid Directions]; Diane Cleghorn [Grace Land Tour]; Victoria M. Cunningham [Self Portrait-Kitchen]; Heather Faust [Untitled]; John Freese [Negative Space]; Heather Gilreath [Brief Candle]; Mickey Glover [Beyond the Light ]; Melissa Greenwood [No Intent]; Chris Haga [Book Fish]; Kari Hancock [King of the Wild Frontier]; Erik Hansen [Shelled Out]; Karen Heaten [Bad Blood and Make Up]; Melinda Henderson [Cuore Spezzato]; Robert Helmadollar [Portrait of my Father from a Blurred Photograph]; Kimberly Million Hodge [Longing]; Jeremiah Jenkins [Look Atcha All Up There]; Mark Johnson [Tea Can]; Kevin Kaiser [Color of a Green Orange]; Megan Jewell Kerns [Insomnia Rides a Dark Horse]; Tim McDonald [Already]; Christina Reiswig [Fox in a Blue Suit]; Larry Rogers [The House Once Lived]; Kelly Sheets [Lord of the Harvest]; Gale Stryker [Lidded Jar]; Scout Taylor [Surfacing]
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The Mockingbird
2002
Editor: Cate Strain
Devon Koren Asdell [Natural Bridge]; Jessica Brice [The Furrowed Field]; Amy Chartier [Through the Road and of My Heart]; Victoria Cunningham [Concealment July 2001]; Carie Dutro [A Friend of Mine Once Told Me]; Nancy Jane Earnest [Summer Ritual]; Franci Doyle [Jackass]; Mike Garrett [Game]; Spicey Gould [Passage]; Megan Jewell Kern [On Three]; Jessica Hodges [Just 2]; Gregory Marlow [Charlie’s Wife]; Shanda Miller [Affirmations]; Neli Jennifer Minthorn [Untitled]; Ouzounova [Stairway to a Sense of Place]; Alison Pack [Accessories]; James Sharp [Boones Creek]; Deborah Smith [The Game]; Kevin Stephenson [A Tale of Two Tales]; Pam Tabor [Letting Go]; Chris Vaughn [Foretold]; Rachel Williamson [Retired Barber];
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The Mockingbird
2001
Editor: Cate Strain
Devon Koren Asdell [Amateur Astronomy]; Bonnie Boochard [Striped Donkey]; Jessica Brise [Something Golden]; lsaac Denton [Ty Cobb]; Nancy Jane Earnest [Untitled Poem]; Jessica Heschong [Untitled~1]; Monet LaClair [Dysfunctional]; Shanda Miller [Arrested Impasse; The Bridge That Dad Built]; Tonya Moreno [The Dance of Days]; Meghan O'Connor [Chaotic Confusion; Still There]; Craig Bradley Owens [The Great Plains Incident]; Sherri Pugh [Guess What Just Flew Inside My Mouth; Katydid's Bubbles]; Rhonda Richards [Thirteen Views of a Flourescent Light]; Melissa Stallard [Untitled Photograph]; Kevin Stephenson [Two For One Special; Poor Little Thing; Burden; Wake]; Lacey Stewart [Oak Ridge's Forgotten History]; Amelia Stuetzel [Figure]; Pam Tabor [Goose Hunt]; Dana Williams [Untitled Photograph]; Janina C. Williams [Invisible]; Donna Wilt [Menacing]
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The Mockingbird
2000
Editor: Ryan S. Otto
Tamara Baxter [July Sun; Doomsday Monday at Pee Wee's Hamburger Emporium]; Emily Carmichael [View (Frost-on- Windowpanes); Boys of Summer]; Isaac Denton [Grandfather as Cheshire Cat]; John Hilton [Actual Size May Vary; I Once Was Lost]; Natasha Jones [Don't Tell Me I'm Still Young]; Miwako Kato [Untitled Photograph]; April Massey [Blind Date]; Sylvia Musgrove [Like Trees Walking]; Laurie Relleva [Wysteria; Fortune Kookie]; Jon Sells [Rocky Cliff]; Melissa K. Stallard [Two Untitled Photographs]; Pam Tabor [memory of shiloh trees; The Proving Ground]; Allan Trently [Spirits in the Spruces]; Susan Woody [Breast; Memphis]
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The Mockingbird
1999
Editor: Leslie Wright
Jennifer Anderson [Left Barriers]; Bonnie Boochard [Untitled Photoetch]; Deborah Bryan [All That Remains]; Lydia Copeland [Travel Lightly]; Howard Dale [Untitled Drawing; A Study of Falling Leaves]; Charlie Davis [Maggie]; Philip J. Guerrieri II [1986 Space Shuttle]; John Hilton [Untitled Drawing]; Nicholas Jimenez [Missing the Dead]; Lisa Jones [Bali/Kato; Untitled Digital Artwork]; Miwako Kato [Untitled Photograph]; Sophia Martin [Roots]; Mary Montgomery [One Jasper Evening]; Jeremy Pass [Distorted Me]; Trent Reynolds [She Chose]; Maria Rice [Dear Alan]; Kara Roberts [Eek, I Saw a Mouse!]; Jane Selser [Chicken Shed]; Emily Sikora Katt [Eulogy]; Kevin Stephenson [My Kingdom for a Little Pain]; Pam Tabor [Scattering Traditions]; Eric Vaughn [Untitled Photograph]; Charles York [Teachers: How They Motivate and How They Devastate]