“It wasn’t that tarted-up, camera-ready, one-layer-of-whole-pecans-on-the-top type of thing. It was ‘right,’ though, owing to the lateness of the hour, no one troubled to define ‘right.’” Lolis Eric Elie, “Ode to Pecan Pie”

Odes by Ander Monson, Lolis Eric Elie, Marion Field, Susannah Felts, Emily Raboteau, Lauren Groff, and more. Fiction by George Singleton, Lincoln Michel, and Rebecca T. Godwin.

Other contributors include Wendy Brenner, Thomas Swick, William Caverlee, Leigh Ann Henion, and more.