Spring is in the air, and in the pages of The Southern Review. Head to prom with Brenda Peynado’s headstrong protagonist in “The Dreamers” and case out some choice summer homes with the environmental activists in Nick Fuller Googin’s “Motivated Individuals.” You can also learn about the ancient Jewish ritual of the mivkeh and the very complicated situation of contemporary surrogacy in Courtney Zoffness’s essay, “Holy Body.” The issue’s poetry carries readers from the hills of Kentucky to the mountains of Japan, with new work by Ed Falco and Freeman Rogers, respectively, and also includes poems by Nancy Chen Long, Elisabeth Murawski, and Charles Rafferty. The spring issue features the paintings of Emily Cheng, who blends Chinese landscape traditions and Western influences in her dreamlike canvases.