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The Southern Review

Louisiana State University

Old President’s House

Baton Rouge LA 70808

Phone: (225) 578-5108

Fax: (225) 578-5098

E-mail: southernreview <at> lsu <dot> edu

ISSN: 0038-4534 Founded: 1935 Issues per year: 4
Distributors: Ingram Periodicals, Louisiana State University Press Average pages: 252 Copy price: $12 Sample price (postpaid): $12 Subscription (individuals): $40 Subscription (institutions): $75

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 whom we helped "discover."

In 2009 and 2010 the journal will showcase poetry from Wendy Barker, Victoria Chang, Oliver de la Paz, Piotr Florczyk, Ava Leavell Haymon, Bob Hicok, Tony Hoagland, Kascha Semonovitch, David Wojahn, and Jake Adam York and fiction by Gilbert Allen, Jane Delury, Kelly Luce, Peter Orner, and Fatima Rashid. New essays range from the topic of crossing-borders by journalist Peter Laufer and grappling with Asberger’s Syndrome by Traci Foust. You’ll continue to find in every issue an eight-page suite featuring striking images of contemporary art.

Recent issues:
45.4
The autumn 2009 issue features a bedtime story by Gilbert Allen and a story about acceptance by Betty Wahl, published posthumously; Sven Birkerts’ in-depth examination of Shirley Hazzard’s novel The Transit of Venus; an essay about border crossings by journalist Peter Laufer; and poetry by Victoria Chang, Bob Hicok, Tony Hoagland, Kascha Semonovitch, David Wojahn, and Jake Adam York, among many others. Art by Nate Ronniger of Scottsdale, AZ.

45.3
New nonfiction in the summer 2009 issue includes a fascinating translation from the memoir of Mutsuo Takahashi by Jeffrey Angles, a beautiful and moving photo-essay by Steve Featherstone about his recent time in Afghanistan, and a sweeping essay by Jay Rogoff about Philip Roth. New fiction includes work from Steve Almond, Wendy Rawlings, and Amina Gautier, and there is new poetry by Susan Blackwell Ramsey, Sandra Meek, Geri Doran, Sydney Lea, and David Kirby, among many other wonderful writers. Our featured artist is Betty Watson, of Greensboro, NC.

45.2
In the spring 2009 issue of The Southern Review, we have great new nonfiction by Rick Bass, new fiction by Melanie Rae Thon and Tony Earley, and poetry by Billy Collins, Bob Cording, and Fleda Brown, among many other wonderful writers. We're also very excited about our translations in this issue: poems translated from Polish by Piotr Florczyk, and a Jean Forton story translated from the French by Eric Freeze.