Art credits:

Cover designers:

  • Beth Ford (A Rupture in the Interiors)
  • Heidi Reszies (The Grass Is Greener When the Sun Is Yellow)
  • Susana Gardner (a game of correspondence)
  • Chris MacDonald (The history of mining)

All Flood Diary images and photos by Jennifer Yorke.

Author photo by Nicole Zdeb.

Thumbnail images on Poems, Etc. page are from the websites in which the work appeared.

Other graphics supplied by various artists, as indicated. 

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All text by Valerie Witte except:

dance lessons:

  • Note 1 adapted from “When Sheep Cause Floods,” (waterworlds.wordpress.com), November 12, 2007.
  • Note 2 adapted from “Titanic exhibit closed due to flooding…how ironic,” (itstrulyrandom.com), June 25, 2008.

gethsemane:

  • Note 1 adapted from “Pigs who swam through Iowa floodwater are shot to protect levee,” by Allen G. Breed, AP, June 8, 2008.
  • Note 2 adapted from “Mosquito threat multiplies after Midwest floods,” AP, (msnbc.msn.com), July 2, 2008.

the disappearing artist: 

  • Note 1 adapted from “A Meteoric Discovery: Extraterrestrial Water,” by Kathy Sawyer, (Washingtonpost.com), August 27, 1999.
  • Note 2 adapted from “Pigs who swam through Iowa floodwater are shot to protect levee,” by Allen G. Breed, AP, June 8, 2008.

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