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The Louisville Review

Publisher's Description: The Louisville Review, sponsored by the brief-residency MFA in Writing Program at Spalding University, was founded in 1976 at the University of Louisville by faculty editor Sena Jeter Naslund and two students. Known for excellence nationwide and abroad, The Louisville Review has recently published such well-known writers as David Ray, David Brendan Hopes, Frank X Walker, Jhumpa Lahiri, Greg Pape, Debra Kang Dean, Jeanie Thompson, Robin Lippincott, Garrett Hongo, Peter Cooley, Tony Hoagland, and Michael Burkhard. From its founding, TLR has fostered the development of new writers; a poem TLR published twenty years ago by Alberto Riós now appears in standard literature textbooks. TLR published the work of Louise Erdrich while she was still a student at Johns Hopkins.

The goal of the magazine continues to be to import the best writing to local readers, to juxtapose the work of established writers with new writers, and to export the best local writers to a national readership. Each poem and story submitted to TLR is judged entirely on its own merit whether the author is already nationally known or previously unpublished.

Recent issues:

This issue (70, Fall 2011) features poetry by Lisa Vinsant, Melva Sue Priddy, Chris Mattingly, Lynnell Edwards, Marcia Menter, Peter Cooley, Tori Sharpe, Allison Seay, R. T. Smith, Carrie Shipers, Brent Fisk, Billy Reynolds, Judith Harris, Leslee Rene Wright, Peter Makuck, Amy Eisner, Sarah Kennedy, Jeff Hardin, Ronald Wallace, David Eye, Gregory Crosby, Catherine MacDonald, Claire McQuerry; fiction by Kim Bradley, Liz Iversen, Angela Jackson-Brown, Tamar Jacobs; Nonfiction by Robert L. Kaiser, Lyz Lenz, Bridgett Jensen, Robert Finch; and drama by Joe Oestreich.

Number 69, Spring 2011, features poetry by Jack Ridl, Joe Survant, Stacy Kidd, Judy Bebelaar, Barbara Sabol, Melissa Morphew, Priscilla Atkins, Diane LeBlanc, Connie Abston, Jason Harmon, Richard Taylor, Barry George, Romayne Rubinas, Barbara Rockman, Sue Terry Driskell, Gail Carson Levine, Shelley Puhak, Cole A. Bellamy, Kimberly Long Cockroft, Adam Houle, Mary Makofske; fiction by Drema Drudge, Mary Clyde, Erin Reid, Billy Thompson, Kirstin Allio, Eric Mulder, Daly Walker, K. L. Cook; nonfiction by Kathleen Flenniken, Jennifer Ronsman, Ellen O’Connell, Rebecca Rine-Stone; and drama by Heather L. Jones.