The Southern Review - Issue: Winter

Issue: Winter - 2013

A Connecticut origami convention, an accidental fall into a Delacroix painting at the Met, and an elephant sanctuary in Thailand feature in new stories by Katherine Heiny, Peter LaSalle, and Ian Bassingthwaighte. Essays include Aisha Sabatini Sloan’s examination of race, her family’s Italian ancestry, Fellini, and Pinocchio, and a personal essay by Steven Harvey about his mother’s life as a nursing student and young wife and mother in Dodge City in the 1940s and 1950s. New poems by Philip Schultz, Deborah Flanagan, Greg Wrenn, Maggie Smith, Kevin Prufer, and many others.

Alison Rossiter

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Plum Perfect; The Map of the Forest; Altered States (Poetry - page 1)

Deborah Flanagan

In/Exhaustible; The Language of Happiness; Correspondence (Poetry - page 4)

Erika Meitner

We’re Here (Fiction - page 10)

Katherine Heiny

To My Muse; Aphorisms for a Lonely Planet (Poetry - page 27)

Lance Larsen

Junk; A Moment (Poetry - page 30)

Philip Schultz

Lefty (Poetry - page 34)

Brendan Galvin

Grace (Fiction - page 36)

Chinelo Okparanta

Penillion of James Ward’s Eye and Muzzle of a Cow (Drawing); Penillion of Riding Past the Radio Astronomy Observatory Amid Hedges and Fields (Poetry - page 56)

John Kinsella

Fresco; Burial; Three Attempts to Understand Suffering; South of Jacksonville (Poetry - page 60)

Greg Wrenn

The Manhattan Lunch: Two Versions (Fiction - page 65)

Peter LaSalle

Marked; The Hawk; The Hunters; Nest; Storybook; Splinter; Mountain Child (Poetry - page 78)

Maggie Smith

Not one single further sorrow; [Let’s say you forgot me] (Poetry - page 95)

Susan Laughter Meyers

Stillbirth (Poetry - page 97)

David Moolten

Under the Sun; Smooth Dark Stone (Poetry - page 98)