BOONE–Cold Mountain Review, a literary journal housed in the Department of English at Appalachian State University, has released its spring 2009 issue.

The current issue includes poems by Frederick Smock, Therése Halscheid, Patrick Hicks, Bill Brown, and other notable contributors. The issue also features the first North American appearance of Susan Rich’s poem “Different Places to Play,” which won The Times of London’s Literary Supplement Award for 2008.

The spring issue also boasts “Bob Dylan’s Story,” a poignant, humorous work of short fiction by Sam Wilson, as well as Ira Sukrungruang’s piece of creative nonfiction “Constellations,” which grippingly recollects his experience growing up in a Thai-American family.

The journal’s cover photograph is an arresting image by Tomas Munita, a photographer based in Santiago, Chile. Munita won the 2006 Leica Oskar Barnack Award for his Afghanistan-based body of work “Kabul, Leaving the Shadows.”

The issue also includes Bryan van der Beek’s photo essay “Indonesia: A Nation in Transition.” This documentary essay spotlights the politically charged violence that erupted in the streets of Jakarta, Indonesia, in August 2000 – violence that is still part of daily life in the city.

Since its first issue more than 35 years ago, Cold Mountain Review has published some of the nation’s most accomplished writers. Among them are Robert Morgan, Sydney Lea, Lyn Lifshin, Houston Baker, Fred Chappell, R.T. Smith and Susan Ludvigson.

Cold Mountain Review staff members are editor-in-chief  Leigh Ann Henion, managing editor Betty Conway, and assistant editor Ian Burkett.

Copies of the spring issue of Cold Mountain Review are available at Black Bear Books in Boone and the University Bookstore on the Appalachian campus. Copies also are available by contacting Betty Miller Conway at conwaybm@appstate.edu. The journal also is available by subscription. For more information, visit www.coldmountain.appstate.edu.

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