In "Target with Wooden Cubbies for Miscellaneous Ceramics and a Pale-Green Molded Pulp Berry Basket," I'm taking a walk around a city, interacting with its alternating bands of joy and despair.

https://www.thesouthernreview.org/issues/detail/Winter-2025/271/

"Target with Wooden Cubbies for Miscellaneous Ceramics and a Pale-Green Molded Pulp Berry Basket" by Mike Carlson

"Balloons" by Til Punto

"Beauty" by Til Punto

"Burning Fingers" by Til Punto

"Marking Time" by Til Punto

"Order" by Til Punto

"Palace Guards" by Til Punto

"Ornithomancy" by Maureen Alsop

"Eromancy" by Maureen Alsop

"Necromancy" by Maureen Alsop

Rasaq Malik Gbolahan’s "Here, God" is an elegiac poem for every homeland wrestling with unrest and war. It's also a memorial, a way of remembering the victims of this unrest and war.

https://www.thesouthernreview.org/issues/detail/Spring-2025/272/

“Here, God” by Rasaq Malik Gbolahan

The Southern Review is one of the nation’s premiere literary journals. Hailed by Time as "superior to any other journal in the English language," we have made literary history since our founding in 1935. We publish a diverse array of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry by the country’s—and the world’s—most respected contemporary writers.

Established at Louisiana State University, The Southern Review immediately became a literary tastemaker. The launch of The Southern Review came about "On a bright Sunday afternoon in late February, 1935," when Louisiana State University’s president drove his black Cadillac to Robert Penn Warren’s house in Baton Rouge to invite him, his wife, and their friend Albert Erskine on a drive to discuss creating a magazine of "distinctive character and quality." Cleanth Brooks and Charles W. Pipkin were consulted; both joined the editorial staff. The Southern Review’s first series ran 1935 to 1942 before closing due to the war. In 1965, the journal was revived under the editorship of Lewis P. Simpson and Donald E. Stanford, who launched the second series to great acclaim. LSU Press became The Southern Review’s publisher in 2011, allowing the journal to undertake new initiatives, such as reaching readers through a digital version in addition to the print quarterly.

"Target with Wooden Cubbies for Miscellaneous Ceramics and a Pale-Green Molded Pulp Berry Basket" by Mike Carlson

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