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The Southern Review

Publisher’s description: Since 1935, The Southern Review has been committed to finding the next new voices in literature. In our pages were published the early works of Eudora Welty, John Berryman, Delmore Schwartz, Peter Taylor, Randall Jarrell, Mary McCarthy, and Nelson Algren, to name only a few. More recently, we can claim Anne Tyler, Robert Pinsky, Michael S. Harper, John Gardner, Rick Bass, and Bonnie Jo Campbell as being among those who we helped discover.

Recent issues:

The Southern Review’s spring 2012 issue is now available! Featuring a talk piece by David Antin, a play excerpt from Tommy Nohilly’s “Blood from a Stone,” and new fiction set in Greece, Montréal, and post-revolution Iran. Essays include Susan McCallum-Smith’s “Tartar,” a masterful essay on Muriel Spark that blends the personal and the scholarly, and Joe Wilkins’s “All Apologies.” New poems by Christine Garren, Sarah Kain Gutowski, Ron De Maris, Jay Rogoff, Chelsea Rathburn, and others.

Ring in the New Year in style with The Southern Review’s jewel-studded winter 2012 issue. Featured poets include Charles Simic, Mary Ruefle, Stephen Dunn, Bob Hicok, Wendy Barker, Elana Bell, Daniel Johnson, and Anna Journey. A snow-dusted Copenhagen at Christmas is the site of Thomas E. Kennedy’s surprising and movingly human account of what it means to face death and emerge grateful to the world. Jason Brown brings us “Wintering Over,” a chilling story about an artist couple isolated in a neglected Maine house over a winter that may be prove too long for them to endure. New fiction by Stuart Dybek, Christie Hodgen, Christine Sneed, Ted Sanders, and Reese Okyong Kwon joins nonfiction by Rachel Ida Buff and paintings by Gwyneth Scally.