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Happy Pub Day to GR Editor Emeritus Maggie Cooper

Happy Pub Day to former Greensboro Review fiction editor Maggie Cooper! We’re excited to celebrate Cooper’s new chapbook, The Theme Park of Women’s Bodies, out today from Bull City Press.

“Intricate, unsettling parables of womanhood. These stories function like tiny jewel-bright dioramas, creating whole worlds and lives in miniature—down to the hum of the electricity, the dampness of the caves, the smell of the blood. The Theme Park of Women’s Bodies is beautiful, razor-sharp, haunting, and true.”

—Clare Beams, author of The Garden

Order your copy today from Durham’s Bull City Press or from your local independent bookstore.

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Happy Pub Day to GR Contributor Stephen Hundley

Happy Pub Day to Greensboro Review contributor Stephen Hundley! We’re so excited that Hundley’s debut novel, Bomb Island, is out today from Hub City Press.

From the publisher:

“Part coming-of-age summer romance, part thriller, Bomb Island is a funny and fast-paced Southern novel exploring subculture communities, survival, and found family set on an island near an unexploded atomic bomb.”

“Stephen Hundley has summoned forth a world that achieves a sense of strangeness and wonder while creating characters who are unrelentingly human in their flaws and strengths. A remarkable novel by an immensely talented young writer.”—Ron Rash, author of The Caretaker

Order your copy today from Greensboro’s Scuppernong Books or from your local independent bookstore.

And while you wait for your copy to arrive, check out Stephen Hundley’s flash piece, “Tiger Drill in Butterfly Class” (Issue 108, Fall 2020).

Bomb Island by Stephen Hundley

Happy Pub Day to Greensboro Review contributor A. Van Jordan

Happy Pub Day to Greensboro Review contributor A. Van Jordan! When I Waked, I Cried To Dream Again launches today from W.W. Norton.

from the Publisher:

A dynamic, moving hybrid work that celebrates Black youth, often too fleeting, and examines Black lives lost to police violence.

In this astonishing volume of poems and lyric prose, Whiting Award–winner A. Van Jordan draws comparisons to Black characters in Shakespearean plays—Caliban and Sycorax from?The Tempest, Aaron the Moor from?Titus Andronicus, and the eponymous antihero of?Othello—to mourn the deaths of Black people, particularly Black children, at the hands of police officers. What do these characters, and the ways they are defined by the white figures who surround them, have in common with Tamir Rice, Trayvon Martin, and other Black people killed in the twenty-first century?

Balancing anger and grief with celebration, Jordan employs an elastic variety of poetic forms, including ekphrastic sestinas inspired by the photography of Malick Sidibé, fictional dialogues, and his signature definition poems that break down the insidious power of words like “fair,” “suspect,” and “juvenile.” He invents a new form of window poems, based on a characterization exercise, to see Shakespeare’s Black characters in three dimensions, and finds contemporary parallels in the way these characters are othered, rendered at once undesirable and hypersexualized, a threat and a joke.

At once a stunning inquiry into the roots of racist violence and a moving recognition of the joy of Black youth before the world takes hold, When I Waked, I Cried to Dream Again expresses the preciousness and precarity of life.

When I Waked, I Cried To Dream Again by A. Van Jordan

“It Would Only Be a Picture Book” by Hannah Craig featured at Verse Daily Poems

“It Would Only Be a Picture Book” by Hannah Craig from Issue 113 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 public free of charge. Find out how you can support Verse Daily here.

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“Focal Point” by Emma DePanis featured at Verse Daily Poems

“Focal Point” by Emma DePanis from Issue 113 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 public free of charge. Find out how you can support Verse Daily here.

Greensboro Review - Issue 113

The Greensboro Review Issue 113 is now available!

Our editorial staff is very pleased to present the 113th edition of The Greensboro Review.

In the Editor’s Note for The Greensboro Review’s 113th issue, Terry L. Kennedy describes the importance of community and our shared literary future, writing “It is a testament to the gift of literature that words put down on a blank page can actually change our experience of the world, and can carry us back to a time, place, or significant moment in our lives…It’s a conversation carried on in many places and many times, past and present. One that should never stop—how can we afford to let it?” 

We invite you into that conversation with this spring 2023 issue, 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. This GR issue also includes new 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.

Read excerpts online and subscribe to the print journal!

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“April Prayer” by Todd Davis featured at Verse Daily Poems

“April Prayer” by Todd Davis from Issue 112 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 public free of charge. Find out how you can support Verse Daily here.

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