Latest Issue: Spring - 2025

Blossoms are beginning to drift across the wind, along with the new pages of The Southern Review. Join us for a trek to warmer temperatures in the desert with Mesha Maren’s “Tonopah,” contemplating the night sky and grief and light, or reminisce about the eighties with Marilyn Abildskov’s “Fur.” Ponder the sinister politics of a neighbor committee with Arnoldo Gálvez Suárez’s “The New Neighbor,” or endure the trappings of a disappointing after-wedding chain restaurant in Chelsea Rathburn’s “Love Poem with Bottled Steak Sauce.” You can also watch the Final Four with Bobby C. Rogers’s mother, or join Jane Hirshfield to consider the future, and also the wonders of the turnip. Philip Schultz, Mairead Small Staid, and El Williams III are also featured. This issue highlights the artwork of Keren Kroul, whose large-scale painting and watercolor installations evoke memory as landscape through fragmentation and white space.

Keren Kroul

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So Many Ways to Augment the Legs, the Feet; Turnip; Another Peculiar Sandwich (Poetry - page 169)
Concert (Poetry - page 173)
Photographic (Poetry - page 181)
Love Poem with Bottled Steak Sauce (Poetry - page 182)
To My Child, on Driving; Driving into the Mountains (Poetry - page 184)
Deadbeat Gods (Poetry - page 202)
Here, God (Poetry - page 204)
Other Animals (Poetry - page 207)
Snow Wine; from “Dear Shipwreck”; from “Found Letters in Translation” (Poetry - page 215)
Dreamland (Poetry - page 232)
Hua Qing
Piano (Poetry - page 247)
Marriage with a Purpose; Anna Magdalena and the Linnet; Anna Magdalena Bach to Herr Simon von Meyer of Halle on Receiving His Gift of Six Carnation Plants (Poetry - page 248)
Tuition Ledger: Slaughter, 1859–1863; Financial Record May 13, 1849 (Poetry - page 254)
We Kept a Room for Him (Poetry - page 256)
Who Would Destroy Me; Yellow Tanagers (Poetry - page 270)
Good News; The Art of Wailing; Spoiled Prayers (Poetry - page 272)
Someone Else’s Story (Poetry - page 286)
Amnesia Sounds Like a Kind of Flower (Poetry - page 288)
Deer Fleeing a Forest Fire (Poetry - page 298)
Floppy Cap; Slow Drive at Evening (Poetry - page 300)
Just the Whole Ocean (Poetry - page 304)
I Worry These Are the Good Times (Poetry - page 322)
Chance; Taking My Nostalgia for a Walk (Poetry - page 323)
Tonopah (Fiction - page 174)
Grand Pas: A Performance in Four Parts (Fiction - page 187)
The Ballad of Jesús Malverde (Fiction - page 220)
The New Neighbor (Fiction - page 258)
Yellow Dust (Fiction - page 290)
My Dying Process (Fiction - page 306)
B2M (Fiction - page 325)
Fur (Nonfiction - page 208)
The Certainty Engine (Nonfiction - page 277)
Crossword; Acrostic (Puzzles - page 234)
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