While flipping randomly through an older edition of the Greensboro Review, I came across Marlowe Moore’s “Shark Fishers.” Its prose is what first caught my eye. Simplistic but beautiful—the mark of any skilled writer—the language here shines with its clear and clean conveyance, with its truthful rendering of the narrative at hand. Like any great […]
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Editor’s Dive into the Archives: Cortney Esco on First Comes Love by Sean Bernard
“First Comes Love” by Sean Bernard is a story that completely surprised me with its careful mixture of aching questions and fresh humor. It follows the married life of Kevin and Kate, who have just found out that they are unable to have children. Kevin spontaneously surprises Kate with a kitten right before they take […]
Read More »Editor’s Dive into the Archives: Michael Springer on Brief Eden by Lois Beebe Hayna
“For part of one strange year we lived,” reads the opening line of Lois Beebe Hayna’s “Brief Eden.” The declaration, with its loaded qualifier, is intriguing. Perhaps I’m projecting too much of 2020 to this poem published in our Fall 2009 issue, but at the mention of such a year I can’t help but begin […]
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Editor’s Dive into the Archives: Cortney Esco on New Work in New China by Michael X. Wang
“New Work in New China” by Michael X. Wang, is a remarkable story that follows the difficult decision of Pei Pei, a poor man from the country, who is offered the chance to become a gong-gong, a manservant to the Chinese emperor, a position he must become a eunuch to accept. The vivid Chinese landscape […]
Read More »Editor’s Dive into the Archives: Matt Coz on Drunk At The Zoo by Brad Vice
You may be wondering how I stumbled upon Brad Vice’s story “Drunk At The Zoo,” first published in the 68th issue of The Greensboro Review in fall 2000, and I will tell you with complete honesty: About a week ago, I stood before one of the many, many bookcases in The Greensboro Review office, and […]
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Editor’s Dive into the Archives: Chris Swensen on Dixie Whistle by Neil Serven
If you are a reader like me, you may have a deep abiding skepticism of 1980s nostalgia and the well-worn tropes of coming-of-age stories. Yet despite this the Neil Serven story “Dixie Whistle” maddeningly blends these exact elements and masterfully makes a touching and funny portrait of adolescent loneliness. Sure, there’s your 10-year-old protagonist and […]
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Editor Emeritus Feature: Texas Review Press Q&A with James Jabar
Check out a conversation with former GR poetry editor, James Jabar, in the #TRPQA Interview Series. Jabar’s debut poetry collection, Whatever Happened to Black Boys, is available for pre-order now from Texas Review Press. Read more: TRP Q&A: An Interview with James Jabar
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Testaments To Still Being Alive: An Interview with Emily Nason
Emily Nason has poetry in, or forthcoming from, The Georgia Review, Indiana Review, the Kenyon Review, TriQuarterly, and elsewhere. Originally from Columbia, South Carolina, she is currently an MFA candidate in poetry at the University of Virginia. Nason’s poem, “Sertraline,” won the Robert Watson Literary Prize and appears in The Greensboro Review 107. JULIA EDWARDS: First, […]
Read More »Why We Chose It: “A Slow Poem” by Daniel Liebert
By Matt Valades, Poetry Editor Back in the pre-virus Fall of 2019, a seemingly distant past grown fond and yellow at the edges, when the coming year held only promise instead of plague, the poetry editors here at The Greensboro Review sat down less than six feet from editor-in-chief Terry Kennedy to discuss and select […]
Read More »“Sertaline” by Emily Nason featured at Verse Daily Poems
“Sertaline” by Emily Nason from Issue 107 of The Greensboro Review featured at Verse Daily Poems. Verse Daily is a poetry daily on the worldwide web. By republishing one new poem a day from fine literary magazines and books, Verse Daily promotes poets and their publishers while providing a wealth of excellent poetry to the […]
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