Conversations

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. […]