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The cover of this issue of The Louisville Review features #416, a painting by Tiffany Calvert. Past, present, and future collide in this work created in collaboration with Artificial Intelligence, and Calvert describes the ways in which historic Dutch and Flemish still life, machine learning, and original painterly gesture converge in her unique process in her statement on the work in our Nonfiction section.
The poetry and prose in this issue demonstrate the necessity of the arts, and the power of the written word—to reveal injustice and suffering, but also to make visible efforts to protect and to nurture, to embolden us to hope that our gestures of goodwill might “be of some consequence after all,” as Julie Marie Wade writes in her lyric essay featured in this issue.
New poems by Jeanie Thompson that address the brutalities of the U.S. immigration system and the aftermath of trauma, while also illuminating the redemptive qualities of poetry and art. Likewise, new poems by Wille Carver Jr. engage the scourges of opioid addiction and homophobia, while also testifying to the enduring love and agency of our animal companions.
Short fiction from Gregory Byrd envisions the aftermath of the massacre of an African American town in Jim Crow Florida, while short fiction from E. Reid celebrates two women’s joyful creation of a new family in Tennessee. Looking beyond the United States, readers will encounter something of family life in Guatemala, and of life in the long shadow of war in Bosnia, in short fiction by Emilio Gomez and Katya Cengel, respectively.
In this issue, TLR welcomes returning contributors Lennie Hay, Marcia L. Hurlow, Pat Owen, and Robert Sachs, as well as new contributors Stephen D. Abney, Thomas Dukes, Arva Elliot, Ilan Mochari, Jesse Mountjoy, Dana Murphy, Madari Pendas, Lizzy Ke Polishan, Margaret Rozga, Caris Uşoară, Whitney Vale, and S.E. Wilson, to name just a few.
Founding Editor: Sena Jeter Naslund
Editor: Flora K. Schildknecht
Managing Editor: Amy Foos Kapoor
Guest Poetry Editor: Maureen Morehead
Guest Fiction Editor: Robin Lippincott
Cornerstone Editor: Betsy Woods
Editor: Flora K. Schildknecht
Managing Editor: Amy Foos Kapoor
Guest Poetry Editor: Maureen Morehead
Guest Fiction Editor: Robin Lippincott
Cornerstone Editor: Betsy Woods
