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Southern Humanities Review

Publisher’s Description: The Southern Humanities Review was founded in 1967 as the official organ of the Southern Humanities Council, with which it remains affiliated. National and international in scope, SHR publishes fiction, poetry, personal and critical essays, and book reviews on the arts, literature, philosophy, religion, cultural studies, and history. Translations in all genres have also appeared in the journal. Our pages feature both established veterans and promising new writers. Our aim is to rediscover and revisit our cultural heritage and to participate in charting the future course of the humanities by bringing that heritage sharply into question. Contributors have included Elfriede Jelinek, Vincent Descombes, Christopher Norris, Sheryl St. Germain, Lee Zacharias, Kent Nelson, Donald Hall, R. T. Smith, Bin Ramke, Andrew Hudgins, Nanci Kincaid, Walt McDonald, and David Citino. Selections from SHR have been anthologized or have received honorable mention in New Stories from the South and Best American Essays, and have been reprinted in numerous critical editions.

The Southern Humanities Review is published quarterly in association with the Auburn University English Department. The Editors’ Comment of each Winter issue announces the recipients of the Theodore Christian Hoepfner Awards for the best essay, story, and poem published in the previous year.

Recent issues:

45.4, Fall 2011 features essays by Gordon Thompson about mangoes and travel, by Josh McCall about an unexpected nostalgia for the past, and by Neil Mathison about a life-altering accident; stories by D. J. Thielke about two schoolgirls playing at death, by Richard Dokey about an elderly man forced to move in with his daughter, and by Mark Jacobs about a man who has lost himself in routine; poems by R. T. Smith, Renee Emerson, Horace (translated by David Macey), Emery George, Mary Morris, and G. C. Waldrep; and reviews discussing Romantic poets, modern poets, favorite books, religion in America, and happiness. See excerpts at our website.

45.3, Summer 2011 features essays by Paula Carter on solitude in the city, Michael Cohen on the physical and mental places in which we read, and Michael Reid Busk on the energetic cultural jumble in 1980s Olympics villages; stories by Greg Johnson about a nosy Cub Scout and his mysterious neighbors, and by Tyrone Jaeger about an Arkansas waitress’s love for her colorful grandmother; poems by John J. Ronan, M. C. Pennington, Antoinette Constable, Leslie Adrienne Miller, Slobodanka Strauss, and Alison Pelegrin; and reviews discussing, among other subjects, Anne Boleyn, Montaigne, William Blake, and God. See excerpts at our website.

45.2, Spring 2011 features essays by Elizabeth Dodd on the mythical and historical connections between the modern Orkney and Hebrides islands and the long-ago Norsemen who invaded them, and by Bob Kunzinger on the temporary severing of connections between his work life and his private life; a long, evocative story by Stephanie Coyne DeGhett about the gentle magic of a traveling dog act in the 1930s; poems by Ginny MacKenzie, Ricardo Pau-Llosa, William Miller, Travis Mossotti, Errol Miller, D. L. Stein, William Kelley Woolfitt, Jim Daniels, and Mabel Yu; and a variety of book reviews. See excerpts at our website.