Issues - The Greensboro Review

Spring 2024

115

Dedicated to Fred Chappell (1936 – 2024), with a special tribute essay from Angela Davis-Gardner, and featuring the Robert Watson Literary Prize winners, Mark Spero’s “Pig Therapist” (poetry) and Daniel S.C. Sutter’s “Mantis” (fiction), as well as new work by Josh Bell, Elizabeth Fergason, Susan Finch, Jared Green, Benjamin S. Grossberg, Caitlyn Klum, Julia Kolchinsky Dasbach, Nik Moore, Ugochukwu Damian Okpara, Weijia Pan, Suphil Lee Park, Martha Paz-Soldan, Edmund Sandoval, Jacob Schepers, Max Seifert, Michael Waters, Leah Yacknin-Dawson, and C. Dale Young.

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The Robert Watson Literary Prize Story MANTIS

Daniel S.C. Sutter

Shaken as an infant, abandoned by my father, and squeezed through time and circumstance, I find myself some thirty-odd years later, here, retching onto a frosty hedgerow outside the town house I rent with my mother. I pull myself into focus, and my stomach feels stretched and snapped like a surgeon’s glove. This is coastal Florida. Our row of homes sits along the Gulf shore, but it’s freezing, so I pretend there’s snow and tilt my head to catch an imaginary flake on the tongue…

The Robert Watson Literary Prize Poem PIG THERAPIST

Mark Spero

I find myself with a wide prospect of Iowa.
Everything here is easy
to say, difficult to imagine. A horizon
of corn that tastes like yellow
wallpaper, and such are the reeds
around lakes of excrement. I’m crying…

Featuring the winner of the Amon Liner Poetry Prize, Madeleine Poole’s “Pile of Maggots,” an Editor’s Note by Terry L. Kennedy, and new fiction, flash, and poetry from Allison Field Bell, Robert Carr, Stacie Cassarino, Jackie Chicalese, James Ciano, Sasha Debevec-McKenney, Corinne Dekkers, Chard deNiord, Gardner Dorton, Robert Evory, Arielle Hebert, John Hoppenthaler, Amanda K Horn, Nalea J. Ko, Beth Konkoski, AG Latham, Jeffrey H. MacLachlan, Michael Meyerhofer, Ania Mroczek, Mike Nees, John A. Nieves, Bruce Parsons, Chelsea Querner, Rachel Richardson, Robert Stone, Elizabeth Sylvia, Lloyd Wallace, Alice White, and Mimi Yang.

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Featuring the Robert Watson Literary Prize winners, Luciana Arbus-Scandiffio’s “Have You Been to the Palisades” for poetry and Jordan Brown’s “Jenny Lynn & Buddy” for fiction, as well as work from Ian Cappelli, Justin Jude Carroll, Camille Carter, Mark Cox, Hannah Craig, Emma DePanise, David Dixon, Gregory Fraser, Mike Good, Bill Hollands, James Jabar, Mimi Manyin, Rose McLarney, Nicholas Molbert, J.S. Nunn, Phoebe Peter Oathout, Dan O’Brien, Lucas Daniel Peters, Ian Power-Luetscher, Dustin Lee Rutledge, Cameron Sanders, M.E. Silverman, Gabriel Spera, and Candace Walsh.

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Featuring the Amon Liner Poetry Prize winner, Dom Witten’s “Broken Showerhead,” and an Editor’s Note by Terry L. Kennedy, as well as new work from Todd Davis, Chris Edmonds, Larry Flynn, Cynthia Gunadi, Matt Hart, AE Hines, A. Van Jordan, Sarah MacKenzie, Louise Marburg, Chris Mattingly, Aidan O’Brien, Skyler Osborne, Suphil Lee Park, Carol M. Quinn, Madison Rahner, Sarah Elaine Smith, Caitlin Rae Taylor, Abby Wolpert, and Dean Young, with a folio of Kelly Cherry’s work. This issue is dedicated to Kelly Cherry (1940-2022), Jeff Towne (1929-2022), and Dean Young (1955-2022).

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May 1966

Volume 1, Number 1

The journal’s inaugural issue featured work from students in the first years of the MFA Writing Program at Greensboro, including Kelly Cherry, Harry Humes, Thomas W. Molyneux, and Angela Davis. Students and faculty members printed the issue in the campus duplicating shop, then collated it by hand. Greensboro painter Betty Watson designed the logo that is still in use today.

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