Issue: Winter - 2021
Issue: Winter - 2021
It’s time to ring in the new year with the winter issue of The
Southern Review! You can join us for an unusual Icelandic confirmation day
in new fiction by Fríða Ísberg,
or uncover a mystery in the snowy Appalachian wilderness forest with Virginia
Lee Wood. Yxta Maya Murray delves into the lives of office workers exposed to
nuclear experiments in the Simi Valley, while Joshua Bennett appears in our pages for
the first time with four poems that examine family, fatherhood, and life outside
the city as a Black man in America. Alongside new poems
by Charles Simic, Maggie Smith, and Janice N. Harrington, this issue features
the photography of Tina
Freeman, whose work juxtaposes the subtle beauty of northern and southern
landscapes to illustrate the impact of climate change near and far. We also
proudly announce the winners of our annual James Olney and Oran Robert Perry
Burke Awards.
Tina Freeman
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A Cloud and a Ghost Walk into a Bar; The Old Country; What My Poems Are About (Poetry - page 1)
Greyhound (Poetry - page 21)
Abolition; Systema Naturae; Sonnet; Dad Poem (Poetry - page 22)
Nineteen Sixty-Three: Year of the Rabbit; Observations of an Only Child (Poetry - page 38)
Mother, 1975 (Poetry - page 40)
A Vision of Orpheus Descending; Eidólon (Poetry - page 41)
To My Sister, on the Matter of Trees (Poetry - page 44)
Portrait of an Ex-Lover as a Hillbilly Satyr; Remember the Meningitis Couch? (Poetry - page 62)
Inventory; Final Lesson on Love from My Mother and Father (Poetry - page 78)
Poem with Ice and Breakup; Three Versions (Poetry - page 81)
Almost Blue (Poetry - page 84)
Poem after Watching An Inconvenient Truth with My Students (Poetry - page 95)
Born Homesick (Poetry - page 96)
Circus; An Old Woman; Looking for Trouble (Poetry - page 113)
X & Death; X in the Tickseed; X at Seventy, a Walk in the Woods (Poetry - page 116)
The Word You’re Looking For; Nocturne; Layered Pigments (Poetry - page 124)
Bella (Poetry - page 129)
Long-Distance Call (Poetry - page 142)
Saint Francis of the Bird Feeder (Poetry - page 143)
I Watch a Documentary on Owl Theory and Become Convinced That Everyone I Love Will Be Killed by a Bird (Poetry - page 144)
Prove; Foal; After the Divorce, I Think of Something My Daughter Said about Mars; Talisman (Poetry - page 161)
The Simplest, Most Important Things (Fiction - page 4)
Earthenware (Fiction - page 28)
Harriet Point (Fiction - page 45)
It Whitened and Stretched into Vastnesses (Fiction - page 130)
Shelter in Place (Fiction - page 148)
In the Kingdom of Mice and Ants (Nonfiction - page 122)
Crossword: Celebrity Cryptids; Hink Pinks (Puzzles - page 74)