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Our autumn 2024 issue features fiction by Grazia Deledda, Alejandro Puyana, and Woo Dayoung; poetry by Dominique Ahkong, Alice Friman, and Danusha Laméris; nonfiction by Gustavo Perez; artwork by Victoria Manganiello; and much more!

TSR Autumn 2024 Audio Gallery

Remember who you used to be? "It's Easy to Forget Where You've Been" asks us to consider where we come from, and where we're headed.

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“It's Easy to Forget Where You've Been” by Danusha Laméris

In Dominique Ahkong’s poem “Fifteen,” the speaker revisits the inner world of adolescence.

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“Fifteen’” by Dominique Ahkong

Meet the shadow beneath the body of pleasure in "Even Pleasure Isn't."

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“Even Pleasure Isn't” by Danusha Laméris

This is simply a portrait of Charlie, a man I hardly knew except for his kindness and bravery in the face of an early death. There really was a gala, a sendoff. The man was loved.

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"Elegy for Charlie" by Alice Friman

Consider the animal origins of music in Bruce Snider's poem, "About the Calfskin Head on Earl Scruggs's Banjo"

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“About the Calfskin Head on Earl Scruggs’s Banjo” by Bruce Snider

A little dark and a little light offer themselves as fall arrives in Charlie Glick's poem "Hope."

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“Hope” by Charlie Glick

For the past two months, I’ve been stealing dryer sheets from the supermarket and selling them door to door… from Ala Fox’s “Aloe & Oud”.

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“Aloe & Oud” by Ala Fox

Read about the regrets and the personal consequences of immigration in Lucia Cherciu's poem "Practicing the New Way."

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"Practicing the New Way" by Lucia Cherciu

Two daughters cut their mother’s hair after she begins chemotherapy in Dominique Ahkong’s poem “Ritual for Familiar Women.”

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“Ritual for Familiar Women” by Dominique Ahkong

How are you holding up? Consider the skeleton, aging, and the geriatric dog in Suzanne Matson's "Bone Songs."

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"Bone Songs" by Suzanne Matson

I was fifteen, and looking back from the high hill of my age, that moment is the only clear and meaningful thing I can recall from my four years of high school.

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"On First Hearing Gray’s ‘Elegy’" by Alice Friman

Here is an ode, a love song, to the West African city that is this speaker's past, present, and eternity. 

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“Lagos” by D.M. Aderibigbe

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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.

TSR Autumn 2024 Audio Gallery

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