
This summer, join The Southern Review with stories from across the globe. You can relive your past with a walk through the East Village in New York in Don Hogle’s poem, “‘Finally, Someone Made a Fashion Week Video That Feels Like a Ketamine Trip on a Farm!’” or by revisiting your childhood home as Lee Harvey Oswald’s assassination was reported in “Musée des Beaux Arts.” Navigate the politics of Soviet Union–era medical practices in Catherine Kim’s “Valdai,” or test the boundaries of romantic relationships while traveling abroad in a newly translated story by María Luisa Puga. Denise Duhamel explores loss with two poems filled with vivid images of love and joy in “When You Tell Me You’re Terminal” and “The Womb Where It Happened”; while the speaker in Dara Yen Elerath’s poem, “The Summer of Blackbirds,” recalls the day her father left. Along with new prose from Ernie Wang, Kristina Gorcheva-Newberry, and Olivia Clare Friedman, this issue features sculptures by Calder Kamin, who uses the medium to depict animals from recycled materials, reimagining and diverting our daily waste.