Category Archives for TSR Staff
TSR Congratulates Pushcart Prize Nominees
The Southern Review is pleased to announce our Pushcart Prize nominees for 2011! Poetry nominees are Kevin Prufer for his long poem “Potential Energy Is Stored Energy,” which begins, “When the bomb tore through the train, / it cut the first-class cabin into halves,” and TSR’s own previous resident scholar, Jen McClanaghan, for “Infinite Melancholy,” […]
Jeanne M. Leiby: A Tribute
Tomorrow family, friends, and colleagues of Jeanne’s will gather at the Hill Memorial Library on the LSU campus to pay tribute to Jeanne and her life’s work. For those who are unable to join us, linked below is a copy of the program. Jeanne M. Leiby: A Tribute
Poems I’m Glad I Know (Cara Blue Adams’ National Poetry Month Picks)
A well-thumbed edition of Contemporary American Poetry bought when I was fourteen is my go-to book for poems I’ve loved a long time. The blue inked stars festooning the poem-title list show that I’m glad I know poems for different reasons: Donald Justice’s “The Missing Person” for the questions it raises about identity and its […]
Poems I’m Glad I Know (Jessica Faust’s Poetry Month Picks)
I made a list of poems that came to mind immediately, then whittled away what I could bear to. It was tough to say the least. Still impossible to get it to five. I found I lean toward the long poem, but love the very short, poignant poem, as well. Traditional forms and breaks from […]
President Obama Thanks TSR
Last summer, to celebrate President Obama’s birthday, we sent him a TSR t-shirt and a copy of the summer issue of The Southern Review featuring a poem about President Obama by Roy Jacobstein. Today, we got a thank you note with President Obama’s real signature. How lovely is that?