Contents
Take Me Back To Where We Started From
A Note from Editor Dustin Brookshirexi
Seventy-Five Lines for Dolly's Seventy-Fifthxiv
Denise Duhamel, Maureen Seaton & Julie Marie Wade
A Note from Editor Julie E. Bloemekexvii
It's Time I Show The World Just What I'm About
The Intimate Biography1
Chad Frame
The Great Equalizer3
Diamond Forde
Perfect Pitch4
Kari Gunter-Seymour
Dolly Said ?No? to Elvis5
Dorianne Laux
Dolly, When I Met You There Was Peace6
Katie Manning
Dolly Parton argues a theory of linguistics. posits7
Tyler Gillespie
The Yassification of Dolly Parton8
L.J. Sysko
Dolly's Debut 10
Linda Neal Reising
The Porter Wagoner Show 11
Rupert Fike
Breakup 13
Beth Gylys
Too Much for Me 14
Yvonne Zipter
If You Play ?Jolene? at 33 rpm 15
Phillip Watts Brown
Dolly Would17
Julie E. Bloemeke
Were it not for the moonlight20
Kelli Russell Agodon
Spirit of '76 21
Gregg Shapiro
I overhear a boy humming ?Jolene? while he practices long division 22
Carolyn Oliver
Dolly Refuses the Nomination23
Donna Vorreyer
If this song seems strange, it's just because I don't know how to pray. 24
Arden Levine
Tryin' To Find What Feels Like Home
Drag Day at Dollywood 29
Nicky Beer
Pilgrimage31
Dan Vera
Dolly Keeps on Burnin'32
Lana K. W. Austin
These Mountains33
Rachel Morgan
Lesson Two34
Jennifer Wheelock
Cleoparton35
Stephen Roger Powers
Dolly Style36
Nicole Tallman
Eugene, Oregon/Homesick37
Raye Hendrix
My Broadway Crush Covers ?Wildflowers?38
Isaiah Vianese
Nashville39
San Fernando40
Jeffrey Perkins
Dolly at the Fox Theater (2008)41
Dustin Brookshire
Never Did Say So43
Caridad Moro-Gronlier
Read Into It What You Will But See Me As I Am
How do you, as a woman, dare to write about sex?47
Nin Andrews
Dolly48
Kelly McQuain
It's All Wrong, But It's Alright49
Benjamin Anthony Rhodes
IS IT ALL YOU?50
Jenny Molberg
Dolly's Breasts52
Dorianne Laux
Just Because I'm a Woman53
Marina Carreira
Dolly Parton as Sonnet54
Denise Duhamel
Dear Dolly Parton, I Too Wanted55
Anna Sandy-Elrod
Making Breakfast with Dolly56
Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer
Ode to Dolly58
Dion O'Reilly
Guide Me And Keep Me Dolly Parton is My Life Coach 61
Kelli Russell Agodon
Sweet Cravings62
Kerry Trautman
Roosters & Hens64
Collin Kelley
Dolly Parton Ghazal66
Denise Duhamel & Julie Marie Wade
Interview67
Roberta Schultz
Conversations with Dolly Parton at 3 a.m.69
Makayla Gay
Visitation70
Micah Ruelle
R e s c u e71
Chin-Sun Lee
Instructions for my Burial Clothes72
Karen Head
Will He Be Waiting for Me73
Lynn Melnick
In the Dream, Dolly Offers to Officiate74
Julie Marie Wade
Butterflies75
Robert Gwaltney
Walking to Kmart to Buy a Dolly Parton Album 76
David-Matthew Barnes
One Year Before His Death, Peter Hujar Sees Dolly Parton78
Steven Reigns
Asexual Ode to Dolly Parton79
Emma Bolden
A Dolly Parton Kinda Love80
teri elam
Acknowledgments81
Credits & Notes83
Contributor Bios 87
Muralist / Photographer Bios95
Editor Bios96
