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 […]
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“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 […]
Read More »“Crocuses” by David Roderick featured at Verse Daily Poems
“Crocuses” by David Roderick 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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Why We Chose It: “The Fair” by Will Hearn
By Evan Fackler, Fiction Editor When Nic, the African-American narrator of Will Hearn’s story “The Fair,” travels to Neshoba County to meet his girlfriend’s all-white family for the first time, his interactions are shadowed by the general history of race in the American South, as well as the specific history of the murder of several […]
Read More »Happy Pub Day to Greensboro Review contributor Jesse Goolsby!
Happy Pub Day to Greensboro Review contributor Jesse Goolsby! Acceleration Hours launches today from the University of Nevada Press: https://unpress.nevada.edu/books/?isbn=9781948908627
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West of Other: An Interview with Brendan Egan
Brendan Egan’s fiction and poetry have appeared in Yemassee, Threepenny Review, Witness, and other places. A native Connecticuter, he has worked as a lobster shucker, ice cream truck driver, expert chino folder, and door-to-door knife salesman. He lives in west Texas, where he teaches at Midland College and attempts to keep a garden. Egan’s story […]
Read More »Announcing the annual Robert Watson Literary Awards
We’re very pleased to announce this year’s Robert Watson Literary Prize Winners: Brendan Egan, for his story, “War Rugs” Emily Nason, for her poem, “Sertraline” Congratulations! Read their work in full in the Spring 2020 issue , which also features new stories and poems from Helen Marie Casey, Janine Certo, Lee Anne Gallaway-Mitchell, Will Hearn, […]
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Happy pub day to Jennie Malboeuf
Congrats to Jennie Malboeuf, whose debut collection, God had a body, is out today from Indiana University Press! Malboeuf’s poem, “Animals in Captivity,” appeared in the GR 106 this past fall. “There is a fierce spirituality and mordant wit in God had a body, Jennie Malboeuf’s first book of poems. Here is a poet with a transformative vision […]
Read More »New flash fiction category
All of us at the GR are excited to announce a brand-new category for flash fiction! Send us your best pithy stories (up to 500 words). We look forward to reading your work–and accepted pieces will appear in our fall issue #108. https://greensbororeview.submittable.com/submit
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The GR featured on Verse Daily – Dingman, Albergotti, & Sexton!
We’re so pleased for three days’ worth of featured poems on Verse Daily! What better way to launch our new fall issue, #106? Today’s poem is Chelsea Dingman’s “No One Can Tell the Bones of the Dead from the Bones of the Living,” with more in the archives: December 2, 2019: “A Sort of Art” by […]
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