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Dorianne Laux/Heather Cousins reading this Friday!

2009-11-10T08:39:00.005-05:00

THE GEORGIA REVIEW AND THE GEORGIA POETRY CIRCUIT PROUDLY PRESENT A READING BY DORIANNE LAUX AND HEATHER COUSINSThe Georgia Review, the renowned literary quarterly published from the University of Georgia since 1947, and the Georgia Poetry Circuit, a consortium of colleges and universities across the state that cooperates in bringing nationally-recognized poets to Athens and elsewhere three times

Melanie McCabe and The Georgia Review featured on Poetry Daily

2009-11-06T15:23:00.002-05:00

Today's offering from the Poetry Daily website is Melanie McCabe's "His Wife," which first appeared in the current (Fall 2009) issue of The Georgia Review.Congratulations to Melanie, and a big thank you to the crew at Poetry Daily from all of us here at GR for choosing this fine piece -- and for being longtime readers and supporters of The Georgia Review.

Rita Dove video now available online!

2009-11-04T10:43:00.002-05:00

Over at the main website of The Georgia Review, we've just posted a video taken at Rita Dove's recent reading at the historic Morton Theater in downtown Athens, Georgia. Click here to view a portion of her fine performance!

Craig Morgan Teicher here and there

2009-10-27T09:19:00.002-04:00

Our pal Craig Morgan Teicher is this week's guest blogger at The Best American Poetry site. Let's all keep watch to see what he comes up with -- I guarantee it will be something interesting. He also has a nice piece on William Carlos Williams' book In the American Grain in the current issue of Tin House.

Lee K. Abbott anthologized

2009-10-26T16:45:00.003-04:00

Here at The Georgia Review we've just learned that Lee K. Abbott's short story "A Great Piece of Elephant," first published in our Spring 2007 issue, has been selected for inclusion in the annual anthology Best of the West: Stories from the Wide Side of the Missouri, available now from the University of Texas Press.Congratulations Lee, and thanks to the editors of the anthology, who showed

Happy birthday Ms. Friman!

2009-10-20T15:20:00.002-04:00

All of us here at The Georgia Review would like to wish a very happy birthday to one of our all-time favorite poets (and human beings, period), the divine Alice Friman. She's been in our pages many times over the years, but here's a sample of one of her recent poems -- from our Summer 2008 issue.

Big Turnout for Dove Reading

2009-10-09T14:58:00.008-04:00

I'm not sure which was more gratifying--the sheer number of folks who showed up to hear Rita Dove at the Morton Theatre Thursday night or the obvious pleasure on all those faces after an hour in her thrall. It was a diverse, all-ages crowd--375 people in all--and no doubt some of the little ones were hearing their first live poetry reading ever. What a first. Dove read from her new book, Sonata

Rita Dove, Bridgetower, and Beethoven on NPR

2009-09-29T16:13:00.005-04:00

Just in time for her series of appearances in Athens, GA next week, here's a link to an in-depth interview with Rita Dove in which she discusses her new book Sonata Mulattica and other subjects -- courtesy NPR's Performance Today. Scroll about halfway down the page to see the Dove material and listen to the interview.Performance Today says: "In her new book, Sonata Mulattica, former U.S. Poet

Congratulations to the GR poets included in The Best American Poetry 2009

2009-09-28T15:40:00.014-04:00

Congratulations to the following for 1) publishing their most excellent poems in The Georgia Review, and 2) having those same poems selected for inclusion in Best American Poets 2009, available now:Fleda Brown, "Roofers" (Spring 2008)Margaret Gibson, "Black Snake" (Summer 2008)Bob Hicok, "Mum's the Word" (Winter 2007)Philip Levine, "Words on the Wind" (Summer 2008)Also, Levine's new book News of

A New Literary History of America

2009-09-28T14:15:00.003-04:00

Check out this fun and functional website for Harvard University Press' just-released A New Literary History of America. The book looks useful and original -- I look forward to perusing a copy soon.

The Fall 2009 issue of The Georgia Review is available now!

2009-09-22T10:15:00.005-04:00

The latest -- and dare I say great(est) -- issue of The Georgia Review is just out. It's our Fall 2009 edition, and offers our readers (as usual) a strong assortment of the best short fiction, poetry, essays, visual art, and book reviews to be found anywhere. The contents include:Barry Lopez’s report from “On the Border,” Whitney Groves’s “O Taste and See” (her debut publication!), and Paul

Two Years in a Row

2009-09-08T14:05:00.004-04:00

We are always happy to learn of the valuable connections between work that we publish and that work’s life beyond our pages. Lori Ostlund, whose story, “Dr. Deneau’s Punishment,” appeared in the Spring 2009 issue of The Georgia Review, will receive a 2009 Rona Jaffe Foundation Writer’s Award. Ostlund joins 2008 Jaffe Award winner Jennifer Culkin, who published essays in our Summer 2006 and Winter

Raymond Carver, Uncut

2009-09-08T11:43:00.003-04:00

The short stories of once-upon-a-time GR contributor Raymond Carver (his essay "John Gardner: Writer and Teacher" first appeared in the Summer 1983 edition of The Georgia Review, and was later reprinted in our Winter 2001/Spring 2002 essay retrospective double-issue) have been re-released in their "original," not-edited-by-Gordon Lish form. People will come to blows over this, I predict:Uncut

Book review roundup

2009-08-31T10:32:00.018-04:00

Being as they are at the back of each issue of The Georgia Review, sometimes our book reviews escape notice. That's unfortunate, because I think for a variety of reasons we're able to offer the sort of thoughtful, in-depth reviews not generally available elsewhere. We try to give our reviewers the luxuries of time and space, and I think it shows.Here are some of the titles our reviewers have

Martone on Twitter

2009-08-21T13:25:00.008-04:00