Genre: To Our Readers

5 August 2026 I’m thrilled to announce that our inaugural Emerging Poetry Critics Program is live, as of the beginning of this month. All the way in pre-Covid times, Ilya […]

12 May 2026 I still have Beverly Buchanan on my mind. The closing symposium, on 21 March, for the exhibition Beverly’s Athens, the subject of our art feature for the […]

19 February 2026 Happy Lunar New Year. Happy year of the Fire Horse. This issue starts the eightieth number of The Georgia Review. We have run uninterrupted since our founding […]

12 November 2025 My new home state, Georgia, and I continue to grow into each other. The first lasting impression came early, on the shuttle from Atlanta’s Hartsfield-Jackson airport to […]

14 July 2025 July we’ve been on the road. We, my home family, spent the entirety of the July Fourth week in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. On Thursday we will drive down […]

14 May 2025 We’re back and rested from the AWP whirlwind. About AWP what can I say? It tickles me to think the provenance for AWP is Walt Whitman’s barbaric […]

29 January 2025 Happy lunar new year. Happy year of the snake. “He understands the power of books, but doesn’t appreciate literature!” my friend Fish exclaimed. This was some summer […]

22 November 2024 For my editing and publishing students, I am always seeking accounts of what it means to build a life and career in publications. In an interview last […]

18 July 2024 I’m starting this at the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, in my hotel room, at five am, having already been up for over an hour. Apparently, 1) I get […]