Issue: Summer - 2019

It’s vacation season, so take a trip with The Southern Review! Get lost in the world of Japanese hot springs in Miroslav Penkov’s “Black Water, Plum Rain,” and experience a slice of tumultuous Madagascar nightlife with Johary Ravaloson’s “Out ’n Around.” You can learn what happens when activists stage a takeover of a tourist trap in Andrew Brininstool’s investigative essay “Above and Below,” and travel through West Virginia in search of home with Mesha Maren. Follow up with a visit to Nicole Stockberger’s “Brintle’s Truck Stop Motel,” and then see the world through the unusual eyes of crash test dummies in two freshly translated poems by Greta Montero Barra. You’ll also find new poems by David Wojahn, Kate Gaskin, and Joe Wilkins alongside paintings by decorated artist Philemona Williamson, who captures the tenuous moment between adolescence and adulthood on her canvas.


Philemona Williamson

In this Issue:

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Blackberries 2 (Poetry - page 339)
History (Poetry - page 340)
Admitting Belief (Poetry - page 354)
In Defense of Daytime (Poetry - page 356)
For My Manufacturers in Their Custom of Paying It Forward; Imagining the Beautiful Avenues Where Our Children Would Stroll (Poetry - page 358)
Blue Sailors; Les bleuets (Poetry - page 381)
Acheron, River of Woe (Poetry - page 384)
Brintle’s Truck Stop Motel (Poetry - page 393)
Musée Picasso (Poetry - page 394)
Fried Egg on a Plate without the Plate; Solstice at Gun Lake (Poetry - page 414)
A Small Sample of Snakes I Have Known (Poetry - page 425)
Bildungsroman (Poetry - page 433)
Sacred Moment (Poetry - page 434)
Scuttle (Poetry - page 436)
Ode to My Father’s Dead Tooth (Poetry - page 452)
Maps of the World; Shell Casings (Poetry - page 454)
River Baptism (Poetry - page 458)
Steller and the Sea Cow (Poetry - page 469)
And Burning (Poetry - page 472)
In Memory of Calvin Purvis (Poetry - page 500)
Elegy with Cockroach King; Survival Biscuit (Poetry - page 502)
Black Water, Plum Rain (Fiction - page 342)
The Handbook of Chinese Ghost Marriage (Fiction - page 364)
Toward the South (Fiction - page 385)
Zarina (Fiction - page 396)
Out ’n Around (Fiction - page 429)
The Ghost House of Utuado (Fiction - page 438)
On the Varieties of Religious Conversion in Contemporary New England (Fiction - page 460)
Milk River (Fiction - page 486)
Above and Below (Nonfiction - page 474)
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