Latest Issue: Autumn - 2025

This fall, get a serving of world-class literature with The Southern Review. You can visit the Rocky Mountains with Analía Villagra, attend a Christmas service in China with Mister Slow of Joondalup, or stumble through the streets of Seoul with Sena Moon. Relive memories of Uganda in Arao Ameny’s new poem, “Away,” or simply find a new strategy for navigating road construction in New Orleans with Christopher Shipman. Along with new poetry by David Hernandez, Bonnie Jo Campbell, and Kwame Dawes, this issue features the origami of Hoàng Tiến Quyết, a Vietnamese artist who specializes in the technique of wet paper folding to create striking, lifelike animals. 

Hoàng Tiến Quyết

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Late for the Geese (Poetry - page 509)
A Vacation; Her Misfortune Is Still Beginning and Has Not Yet Reached Its Peak; Young Minds Should Not Dwell on Grief (Poetry - page 510)
The Next Galaxy (Poetry - page 530)
Six Glasses of Water (Poetry - page 532)
Just Put a Cone on It (Poetry - page 534)
Anniversary, Newburyport (Poetry - page 546)
Pre- K (Poetry - page 547)
The Childless Aunt’s End Times; I Fed My Girls; My Father Is Not a Farmer (Poetry - page 548)
Self- Portrait at Twelve (Poetry - page 552)
The Meaning: A Triptych (Poetry - page 564)
Contact Details (Poetry - page 567)
Snapshots; Grief (Poetry - page 568)
Organ of the Cathedral; The Cathedral Stairs (Poetry - page 576)
October (Poetry - page 587)
Leaving; A Different Kind of Tenderness (Poetry - page 588)
Christmas Party (Poetry - page 596)
Game Theory (Poetry - page 609)
Door Softly Closing (Poetry - page 610)
In Which You Draw My Portrait and the Restaurant Closes around Us; First (Poetry - page 626)
Fowler’s Position (Poetry - page 628)
Starry Night (Poetry - page 630)
Away (Poetry - page 638)
Bare- Root Roses; Invitation (Poetry - page 640)
Solo (Poetry - page 655)
Rereading Madame Bovary (Poetry - page 656)
Elderberry Time (Poetry - page 660)
Killing Six Birds; Inheritance (Poetry - page 660)
Frank Across Time (Fiction - page 513)
Scaffolding for the Strays (Fiction - page 536)
Where Are Your Daughters? (Fiction - page 553)
Renaissance (Fiction - page 571)
A Chinese Clergyman’s Christmas Eve (Fiction - page 598)
The Base Camp (Fiction - page 612)
The Agronomist (Fiction - page 631)
Harbinger (Fiction - page 642)
What Became of Them (Fiction - page 663)
Crossword; Hink Pinks (Puzzles - page 592)
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