Issue: Summer - 2024

We’re on a journey with the latest issue of The Southern Review. Find out what happens when a woman attempts to outrun her past in Erika Krouse’s “Fear Me As You Fear God,” or what a photographer finds deep in a Chinese mountain range in Feng Jiqi’s “Pursuit.” You can consider the precarity of renting in America in Yxta Maya Murray’s “The Sunk Cost Fallacy,” or escape to Italy in Phuong Anh Le’s new story, “Aventine Hill.” María Mercedes Carranza’s “Oh, My Precious Things!” considers the objects the speaker has inherited from ancestors never known, from places no longer standing, while Lis Sanchez’s poem “Carla Medina de Sánchez: The Snare” details the historical cruel treatment of Puerto Ricans in the U.S. in 1900, when men being transported to work in sugarcane fields were forced to stand in the desert sun for days, roasting, while the women were forced to watch from inside train cars. Along with new poems by Claire Tuna, Adele Elise Williams, and Lizabeth Yandel, the issue features the artwork of Marina Savashynskaya Dunbar, who writes that for her “Abstraction, like fiction, explores the pursuit of connection suspended between many levels of imagination and familiarity…. Each type of medium carries a different meaning, visual weight, and tension.”

Marina Savashynskaya Dunbar

In this Issue:

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New Home (Poetry - page 329)
For My Mausoleum a Mycelium; Delirium Tre- mens; Having My Pocket Picked on Las Ramblas (Poetry - page 330)
Carla Medina de Sánchez: The Snare (Poetry - page 354)
Dear Su, (Poetry - page 355)
The Poet Said (Poetry - page 356)
River Religions (Poetry - page 358)
The Cruelest Month (Poetry - page 376)
Someone Else’s Life (Poetry - page 378)
Belt of Venus; The Sunflower (Poetry - page 381)
Polaroid: Prison Visit (Poetry - page 402)
Dad (Poetry - page 405)
Ex Libris (Poetry - page 415)
My Kafka Prose Poem (Poetry - page 430)
Aubade; How Much for the Swan Boat (Poetry - page 431)
No One Except Us; On a Street Called Grand (Poetry - page 434)
That Time Just before We Were Us (Poetry - page 454)
The Flamingo’s Instruction to John James Audubon (Poetry - page 455)
The Caiman’s Tears; Y (Poetry - page 456)
Dick’s Drive-In Parking Lot, 1:00 am (Poetry - page 469)
Oh, My Precious Things! (Poetry - page 470)
Two Lovers; Bog Body (Poetry - page 472)
The Clothes Horse and Sundries of Others (Poetry - page 486)
Tick Check; Tischer Creek (Poetry - page 488)
Elegy, Saturday Afternoon (Poetry - page 491)
Things Found in the Garden; The Studio Boat (Poetry - page 492)
Fear Me as You Fear God (Fiction - page 333)
Tray of Sandra and Ruth (Fiction - page 360)
The Sunk Cost Fallacy (Fiction - page 384)
Aloe and Oud (Fiction - page 426)
Aventine Hill (Fiction - page 436)
Pursuit (Fiction - page 476)
Feng Jiqi
Hello, Boar—You Must Be Hungry (Nonfiction - page 460)
Crossword: Summer Unthemed; Acrostic (Puzzles - page 422)
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