Spring is in the air, and in the pages of The Southern Review. Join two children as they try to sneak their way into a Thai festival in Duanwad Pimwana’s “Sandals” and relive an old con in Peter Orner’s “Fall River Wife.” You can also learn about lovers’ marks—the sometimes painted, sometimes carved dedications to love found in vandalism around the world—in Thomas Dai’s “Love on the Rocks.” This issue’s poetry includes Gregory Stapp’s “Love via a Rube Goldberg Diagram,” a charming puzzle of a couple’s relationship through the seasons, as well as two new poems from recent Agnes Starrett Lynch poetry prize winner Ryan Black, and work by David Wojahn, Kim Roberts, and Marilyn Nelson. The spring issue features the paintings of Eva Speer, who blends traditional and contemporary techniques to create hypnotic landscapes and textures.