From the sandy pine hills and river bluffs of North Louisiana to the cypress swamps and reedy marshes of South Louisiana-from the Ozarks to the Gulf-David Middleton celebrates, in evocative descriptions and compelling stories, the flora and fauna, the history and prehistory, the geography and the people, of his native state. But like Robert ......
From the sandy pine hills and river bluffs of North Louisiana to the cypress swamps and reedy marshes of South Louisiana-from the Ozarks to the Gulf-David Middleton celebrates, in evocative descriptions and compelling stories, the flora and fauna, the history and prehistory, the geography and the people, of his native state. But like Robert ......
Divided into three sections, This Mellow World tells the complex story of a protagonist on a quest to feel at home with his Portuguese ethnic identity. Engaging with the work of a range of Portuguese writers and poets, principally Eca de Queiros, this cycle of twenty-three poems excavates Oliver's family history, moving from his grandparents' ......
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, ......
Crystal Simone Smith's new poetry collection, Runagate, reimagines the experiences of enslaved and formerly enslaved persons in a stark and chilling response to the archives of chattel slavery: bills of sale, interviews, narratives, and fugitive runaway ads. Embodying the aesthetics and Japanese poetic forms haiku and tanka, her poems bear witness ......
Crystal Simone Smith's new poetry collection, Runagate, reimagines the experiences of enslaved and formerly enslaved persons in a stark and chilling response to the archives of chattel slavery: bills of sale, interviews, narratives, and fugitive runaway ads. Embodying the aesthetics and Japanese poetic forms haiku and tanka, her poems bear witness ......
"The Southern Poetry Anthology, Volume III, second edition, edited with passion and precision, in collaboration with Texas Review Press, transcends the stereotypes surrounding Appalachia, revealing the true diversity and complexity of Appalachia's poetic voices. Commitment to showcasing the rich and rewarding literary landscape reflects the ......
Proprioception tastes of a feral urgency to time, to presence, a need. The poems move through ideas of race, of fear, of sexuality, of life already lived in low-level terror now amplified, of the weight of responsibility, of the burdens of age-trying to find a way to breathe every day in a now permanent upset of an already shaky imbalance, to find ......
