ISSUE 4.2 welcome issue contents contributors interviews our editors Issue 4.2 Contributor Interviews Dale M. Brumfield“Prison inmates largely become forgotten in our society, especially those condemned to life or to death…” MICHAEL BROKOS“The poem’s physical setting is rainy, urban, kind of grungy, so I was looking for a more idyllic location…” GRANT CLAUSER“I tend to slip into metaphorical descriptions as a way to convey or heighten the emotional content…” ROCHELLE HARRIS“Science just has some of the most compelling terms, like “angle of repose.” Don’t you just see a decadent woman…” Kathryn Hunt“Teaching and writing feed each other. Preparation for a class gives me a chance to think about questions…” Anna Kelley“No matter what views you have on fate or the afterlife, I think we can agree that there are pretty awful ways to die…” Kelly Lenox“Up at the north end of Great Smokey Mountains National Park is this historical settlement, Cataloochee…” Kristan Uhlenbrock“When I started this essay, I set out to examine the tension between settling down and pursuing a vagabond life…” Cathy Ulrich“In my own work, I like to focus on the different kinds of love out there, not just the heroine and the hero leaning in…” Tara Isabel Zambrano“What we see sometimes comes to us after years of traveling, and by that time the source of it has transformed…”