Conversations

Over the last couple of weeks in June, I had the pleasure of conversing with writer and translator Paige Aniyah Morris over email on the occasion of the publication of her translation of Kim Sehee’s “Words and Kisses.” Our conversation began by focusing on “Words and Kisses,” providing fascinating insight into Morris’s choices in translating […]

The lush, carefully catalogued worlds of Shangyang Fang’s poems abound with objects, real and imagined, that are always on the cusp of pushing beyond their own properties: a “cloud of hydrangeas” is a “hydrogen bomb”; the “carcass of a pickup” returns from the grocery “with carnivals.” Fang lashes images to his lines, pulling objects out […]

Anne Goldman’s new essay collection, Stargazing in the Atomic Age, is now out from Georgia Review Books, an imprint of the University of Georgia Press. In a starred review, Kirkus Reviews calls Goldman’s book “A beguiling meditation on Jewish achievements that shine brightly against a dark background.” Earlier versions of three of its pieces, including […]

A literary editor, a prose writer, and a poet, Sun Tzu-ping (b. 1976) is an important voice in contemporary Taiwanese gay writing. His poems often depart from his perception of the mundane in an urban setting and lure readers with a lyric sense of abandonment and loneliness. The narrative, if present, is absurd and should […]

Anne Goldman’s new essay collection, Stargazing in the Atomic Age, is now out from Georgia Review Books, an imprint of the University of Georgia Press. In a starred review, Kirkus Reviews calls Goldman’s book “A beguiling meditation on Jewish achievements that shine brightly against a dark background.” Earlier versions of three of its pieces, including […]

Cultivating the Wild: William Bartram’s Travels, a collaboration among director Eric Breitenbach, director of photography Scott Auerbach, and writer Dorinda G. Dallmeyer, is a film that contains both despair and hope, telling environmental truths while remaining relentlessly beautiful. Illustrations and excerpts from the writing of Bartram, the eighteenth-century naturalist and artist who explored the American […]

Tobias Wray and Soham Patel discuss, among other things, his poem in the Fall 2020 issue of The Georgia Review, “Each of Us Chimera”; the role of queerness in nature; the nature of truth; the influence of women on gay men’s lit; and his forthcoming collection, No Doubt I Will Return a Different Man, selected […]

INTRODUCTION Spiritual Exercises (Penguin, 2019) is the latest collection of poetry from Mark Yakich, author of The Dangerous Book of Poetry for Planes (Eyewear Publishing, 2017), A Meaning for Wife (Ig Publishing, 2011), The Importance of Peeling Potatoes in Ukraine (Penguin, 2008), Green Zone New Orleans (Press Street, 2008), The Making of Collateral Beauty (Tupelo […]

Georgia Review editor Gerald Maa spoke with A. E. Stallings on 16 November 2019 at Hendershot’s, in Athens, Georgia. Three poems by Stallings appear in our Summer 2020 issue.  *  *  * Gerald Maa (GM): I’m sitting here with Alicia Stallings; this is the weekend during which she’s inducted into the Georgia Writers Hall of […]

Georgia Review editor Gerald Maa spoke with artist Michi Meko in his Atlanta studio on 23 September 2019. A portfolio of Meko’s recent work appears in the Winter 2019 issue of The Georgia Review.   Gerald Maa (GM): Let’s start by giving our readers a sense of where you came from, how you got here. […]