The Georgia Review

After God, Fear Women

By Eloghosa Osunde

Psittaciformes Forms, Self-Eating Forms

By Yaron Michael Hakim

Phenomenal Listening: The Art of Jason Moran

By Radiclani Clytus

In Memoriam, Barry Lopez

Psittaciformes Forms, Self-Eating Forms

By Yaron Michael Hakim

Phenomenal Listening: The Art of Jason Moran

By Radiclani Clytus

The Georgia Review’s Spring 2021 issue is now available, featuring new writing from T Cooper, Eloghosa Osunde, Kazim Ali, Heather Christle, Nikki Wallschlaeger, and many more, along with translations of work by Alain Mabanckou, Hiromi Itō, and Toshiko Hirata and a special section on Claudia Rankine’s Just Us: An American Conversation. This issue’s art portfolio presents Yaron Michael Hakim’s innovative anti-colonial artworks, as seen in two distinctive series.

EXPLORE THE ISSUE

Poetry

[the tree remembers]; [here the contours]; [don’t change your name]; [and so...

By Alain Mabanckou

Poetry

The Black Ugly Duckling & Love Letter to My First Car

By Nikki Wallschlaeger

Essays

In Paradise

By Susanne Antonetta

Fiction

After God, Fear Women

By Eloghosa Osunde

Fiction

First Aid

By T Cooper

Poetry

Love Poem with Parenthetical; Shift; & What It Means to Forget

By Dana Alsamsam

Poetry

Day (with an annotation by Blake Butler)

By Molly Brodak

Fiction

A Door Swings Open

By Maud Casey

Features

Poetry

[the tree remembers]; [here the contours]; [don’t change your name]; [and so...

By Alain Mabanckou

Poetry

The Black Ugly Duckling & Love Letter to My First Car

By Nikki Wallschlaeger

Essays

In Paradise

By Susanne Antonetta

Fiction

After God, Fear Women

By Eloghosa Osunde

Fiction

First Aid

By T Cooper

Poetry

Love Poem with Parenthetical; Shift; & What It Means to Forget

By Dana Alsamsam

Poetry

Day (with an annotation by Blake Butler)

By Molly Brodak

Fiction

A Door Swings Open

By Maud Casey

Art

Psittaciformes Forms, Self-Eating Forms

By Yaron Michael Hakim

Collaborations, Water and Light (with an interview by Douglas Carlson)

By Meghann Riepenhoff

Picture the Dream: The Story of the Civil Rights Movement through Children’s Books, 15 August–8 November 2020, The High Museum of Art, Atlanta (featuring an interview with Andrea Davis Pinkney)

By C. J. Bartunek

Kaleidoscopic Consciousness

By Doron Langberg

“Be Unpredictable, Be Real, Be Interesting, Tell a Good Story!” (with an interview by C.J. Bartunek)

By Eddie Arroyo

A Lower Deep

By Michi Meko

“What I Find Funny Is Too Dark to Say Out Loud” (with an interview by C. J. Bartunek)

By Dhruvi Acharya

“A Starting Point” (with an introduction by Katie Geha)

By Toyin Ojih Odutola

“As Complicated and Elusive as Reality”: María Berrio’s Many-Layered Collages (with an interview by C. J. Bartunek)

By María Berrio

Reviews

on The Journey by Miguel Collazo, translated by David Frye, with an introduction by...

By Diego Báez

on The Lying Life of Adults by Elena Ferrante, translated by Ann Goldstein

By Brianna Beehler

Inquiry and Imperative (on Johanna Skibsrud’s The Poetic Imperative: A Speculative Aesthetics and Alice...

By Julia Bloch

Harder and Better: The New Masculinity of Fatherhood Poetry (on Douglas Kearney’s Patter; Oliver...

By Emily Pérez

A Terror Felt Rather Than Seen

By Julie Iromuanya

“How Does It Feel to Be a Problem?”

By Virginia Jackson

on Suitor by Joshua Rivkin

By Hannah Baker Saltmarsh

on Cool Town: How Athens, Georgia, Launched Alternative Music and Changed American Culture by...

By Bradley Bazzle

on Afropessimism by Frank B. Wilderson III

By Selamawit D. Terrefe

Imaginary Maps (on Apsara Engine and Spellbound: A Graphic Memoir by Bishakh Som)

By Stephanie Burt

on Defacing the Monument by Susan Briante

By Sandra Simonds

on My Autobiography of Carson McCullers by Jenn Shapland

By Julie R. Enszer

Reviews

on The Journey by Miguel Collazo, translated by David Frye, with...

By Diego Báez

on The Lying Life of Adults by Elena Ferrante, translated by...

By Brianna Beehler

Inquiry and Imperative (on Johanna Skibsrud’s The Poetic Imperative: A Speculative...

By Julia Bloch

Harder and Better: The New Masculinity of Fatherhood Poetry (on Douglas...

By Emily Pérez

A Terror Felt Rather Than Seen

By Julie Iromuanya

“How Does It Feel to Be a Problem?”

By Virginia Jackson

on Suitor by Joshua Rivkin

By Hannah Baker Saltmarsh

on Cool Town: How Athens, Georgia, Launched Alternative Music and Changed...

By Bradley Bazzle

on Afropessimism by Frank B. Wilderson III

By Selamawit D. Terrefe

Imaginary Maps (on Apsara Engine and Spellbound: A Graphic Memoir by...

By Stephanie Burt

on Defacing the Monument by Susan Briante

By Sandra Simonds

on My Autobiography of Carson McCullers by Jenn Shapland

By Julie R. Enszer

Evidence

On My Therapist, Late in This Life

Picture the Dream: The Story of the Civil Rights Movement through Childr...

College (translated from the Hindi by Arvind Krishna Mehrotra and Sara Rai)

The Lonely Ruralist

Influenza 1918

Achilles; On Being Thrown from a Horse at 49; & Verge

Jerry’s Dirt (essay)

Psittaciformes Forms, Self-Eating Forms

Collaborations, Water and Light (with an interview by Douglas Carlson)

Picture the Dream: The Story of the Civil Rights Movement through Children’s Books...

Kaleidoscopic Consciousness

“Be Unpredictable, Be Real, Be Interesting, Tell a Good Story!” (with an interview...

A Lower Deep

on The Journey by Miguel Collazo, translated by David Frye, with an introduction by...

on The Lying Life of Adults by Elena Ferrante, translated by Ann Goldstein

Inquiry and Imperative (on Johanna Skibsrud’s The Poetic Imperative: A Speculative Aesthetics and Alice...

Harder and Better: The New Masculinity of Fatherhood Poetry (on Douglas Kearney’s Patter; Oliver...

A Terror Felt Rather Than Seen

“How Does It Feel to Be a Problem?”

on Suitor by Joshua Rivkin

on Cool Town: How Athens, Georgia, Launched Alternative Music and Changed American Culture by...

Evidence

On My Therapist, Late in This Life

Picture the Dream: The Story of the Civil Rights Movement through Childr...

College (translated from the Hindi by Arvind Krishna Mehrotra and Sara Rai)

The Lonely Ruralist

Influenza 1918

Achilles; On Being Thrown from a Horse at 49; & Verge

Jerry’s Dirt (essay)

Psittaciformes Forms, Self-Eating Forms

Collaborations, Water and Light (with an interview by Douglas Carlson)

Picture the Dream: The Story of the Civil Rights Movement through Children’s Books...

Kaleidoscopic Consciousness

“Be Unpredictable, Be Real, Be Interesting, Tell a Good Story!” (with an interview...

A Lower Deep

on The Journey by Miguel Collazo, translated by David Frye, with an introduction by...

on The Lying Life of Adults by Elena Ferrante, translated by Ann Goldstein

Inquiry and Imperative (on Johanna Skibsrud’s The Poetic Imperative: A Speculative Aesthetics and Alice...

Harder and Better: The New Masculinity of Fatherhood Poetry (on Douglas Kearney’s Patter; Oliver...

A Terror Felt Rather Than Seen

“How Does It Feel to Be a Problem?”

on Suitor by Joshua Rivkin

on Cool Town: How Athens, Georgia, Launched Alternative Music and Changed American Culture by...

After God, Fear Women

Psittaciformes Forms, Self-Eating Forms

Phenomenal Listening: The Art of Jason Moran

In Memoriam, Barry Lopez

After God, Fear Women

Psittaciformes Forms, Self-Eating Forms

Phenomenal Listening: The Art of Jason Moran

In Memoriam, Barry Lopez

[the tree remembers]; [here the contours]; [don’t change your name]; [and so...

The Black Ugly Duckling & Love Letter to My First Car

In Paradise

After God, Fear Women

First Aid

Love Poem with Parenthetical; Shift; & What It Means to Forget

Day (with an annotation by Blake Butler)

A Door Swings Open

Features

[the tree remembers]; [here the contours]; [don’t change your name]; [and so...

The Black Ugly Duckling & Love Letter to My First Car

In Paradise

After God, Fear Women

First Aid

Love Poem with Parenthetical; Shift; & What It Means to Forget

Day (with an annotation by Blake Butler)

A Door Swings Open

Art

Psittaciformes Forms, Self-Eating Forms

Collaborations, Water and Light (with an interview by Douglas Carlson)

Picture the Dream: The Story of the Civil Rights Movement through Children’s Books, 15 August–8 November 2020, The High Museum of Art, Atlanta (featuring an interview with Andrea Davis Pinkney)

Kaleidoscopic Consciousness

“Be Unpredictable, Be Real, Be Interesting, Tell a Good Story!” (with an interview by C.J. Bartunek)

A Lower Deep

“What I Find Funny Is Too Dark to Say Out Loud” (with an interview by C. J. Bartunek)

“A Starting Point” (with an introduction by Katie Geha)

“As Complicated and Elusive as Reality”: María Berrio’s Many-Layered Collages (with an interview by C. J. Bartunek)

Reviews