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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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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 »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 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 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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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! Acceleration Hours launches today from the University of Nevada Press: https://unpress.nevada.edu/books/?isbn=9781948908627
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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 »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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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 […]
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