In 1989, an Ohio radio station called WOXY launched a sonic disruption to both corporate rock and to its conservative home region, programming an omnivorous range of genres and artists while being staunchly committed to local independent art and media. In the 1990s, as alternative rock went mainstream and radio grew increasingly homogeneous, WOXY ......
The 117th issue of The Greensboro Review features our annual Robert Watson Literary Prize winners: Jeni O'Neal for "Loving a Man and His Kids and His House" in poetry and Emily Harper Ellis for "The Fairy Swap" in fiction. This spring 2025 edition also includes new work by Miriam Akervall, Megan Blankenship, Alex Bullock, Flora Field, Abigail Ham, ......
The Greensboro Review 116 includes the winner of the Amon Liner Poetry Prize, James Daniels's "We Are All Starved for Touch." This fall 2024 issue features new poetry, stories, and flash from Sean Cho A., Jake Bauer, Nathaniel Bellows, Mark Brazaitis, Sebastien Luc Butler, Lucas Cardona, Adrienne Celt, K.S. Dyal, Jason Gray, Mickie Kennedy, Sally ......
The spring 2024 Greensboro Review features our annual Robert Watson Literary Prize winners, Mark Spero's "Pig Therapist" for poetry and Daniel S.C. Sutter's "Mantis" for fiction. This 115th issue is dedicated to Fred Chappell (1936 - 2024), with a special tribute essay from Angela Davis-Gardner, as well as new work by Josh Bell, Elizabeth ......
The 114th Greensboro Review features the winner of the Amon Liner Poetry Prize, Madeleine Poole's "Pile of Maggots," flash fiction by Sasha Debevec-McKenney and Beth Konkoski, and an Editor's Note by Terry L. Kennedy. This Fall 2023 issue includes new work from Allison Field Bell, Robert Carr, Stacie Cassarino, Jackie Chicalese, James Ciano, ......
The Greensboro Review 113 features the Robert Watson Literary Prize winners, Luciana Arbus-Scandiffio's "Have You Been to the Palisades" for poetry and Jordan Brown's "Jenny Lynn & Buddy" for fiction. This spring 2023 issue also includes new work from Ian Cappelli, Justin Jude Carroll, Camille Carter, Mark Cox, Hannah Craig, Emma DePanise, David ......
The fall 2022 Greensboro Review features the Amon Liner Poetry Prize winner, "Broken Showerhead" by Dom Witten, flash fiction by Chris Edmonds, and an Editor's Note by Terry L. Kennedy. This 112th issue includes work from Kelly Cherry, Todd Davis, Larry Flynn, Cynthia Gunadi, Matt Hart, AE Hines, A. Van Jordan, Sarah MacKenzie, Louise Marburg, ......
The Greensboro Review 111 features the Robert Watson Literary Prize-winning story, Molly Guinn Bradley's "The Mystic Marriage of Saint Catherine of Siena," and the Prize-winning poem, L.A. Johnson's "Theory When a Western Light Goes Out." This spring 2022 issue includes an Editor's Note from Terry L. Kennedy and new work by Nicole Adabunu, Alyx ......
Sophia Turner's Poems from the North Carolina Asylum for the Insane, 1878-1880
What was it like to be morphine addicted woman who was committed to an insane asylum in North Carolina in the late 1800s? Sylvia Hoffert has transcribed and edited the poems of Sophia Turner, a Hillsborough housewife, whose husband Josiah Turner, Jr., placed her in the North Carolina Asylum for the Insane in 1878 hoping that the doctors there ......
