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The Georgia Review

Publisher’s Description: The Georgia Review, published by the University of Georgia since 1947, is an award-winning, internationally distributed literary quarterly that seeks to present the finest in contemporary thought and writing to a broad range of intellectually open and curious readers. A frequent finalist in the National Magazine Awards competition, The Georgia Review has won Essay and Fiction prizes. Its staff reviews over 13,000 submissions annually, publishing interdisciplinary essays, reviews, art, fiction, and poetry in four book-length issues per year. Through its commitment to excellence, The Georgia Review has earned an international reputation. Contributors range from Nobel laureates and Pulitzer Prize winners to emerging new voices, all of whose words invite and sustain repeated readings.

Recent issues:

This issue [Spring 2012] features “Two-fers / Twofers.” Two essays on Eudora Welty. Two essays on the Mount St. Helens eruption. Mary Clearman Blew’s versions—one fiction, one essay—of the same recollected incident. A two-genre look—via poems and an interview—at Robert Morgan. Two reverse-image poems by Neil Carpathios. A poem by Maxine Kumin that is essentially two poems presented in alternating stanzas. And more: Darrell Spencer’s story “Squeeze Me, I Sing,” about a couple’s determination to raise a disabled newborn; Kael Alford’s essay and photos of Louisiana landscapes and communities being washed away; poems by NatashaTrethewey, et al.; and reviews.

“We Are All of Us Passing Through,” a previously unpublished autobiographical essay by Harry Crews, heads a diverse lineup in the Winter 2011 issue. Others appearing are National Book Critics Circle Award-winning poets Albert Goldbarth and Sharon Olds, internationally known poet and Rumi translator Coleman Barks, and essayist Martha G. Wiseman, whose “In the Flesh” ponders the turns of her artistic and sexual life under the influence of her namesake godmother, choreographer Martha Graham. Ann Pancake returns with “Mouseskull,” a violence-haunted story of a girl ferreting out family secrets. First-time contributors are poets James Applewhite and Christine Robbins, reviewer Baynard Woods, and artist Eugenie Torgerson.

In this issue (Fall 2011), the boundaries between our interior and exterior lives are repeatedly called into question. Strikingly varied essays by David Bosworth, Albert Goldbarth, Kent Meyers, and Judith Kitchen set the tone. The intimate and the impersonal also intertwine in short stories by Mary Hood (“A Clear View of the Southern Sky”) and Don Waters (“Española”), and in the poems of Coleman Barks, Margaret Gibson, Richard Jackson, William Johnson, and others. Artists with the Combat Paper Project—whose unique creations are printed on paper handmade from shredded military uniforms—are featured on the covers and in a portfolio.