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The cover of this issue features a drawing by Louisville artist Martin Rollins, East of Franck. Rollins’ drawing pulses with the green promise of new possibilities, and his essay on the artwork shares something of his artistic process—as well as the convergence of aesthetic appreciation of color and light with memory that inform the drawing. Also in Nonfiction, we feature Robin Lippincott’s lyric essay on art, loss, and connection, aptly titled, “A Confluence.”
This issue opens with poems from the finalists of The Louisville Review’s National Poetry Book Contest, judged by Jeanie Thompson. The winning selection, Deborah Schupack’s When We Were Gun, will be available in fall 2025, and will be the second title published by Fleur-de-Lis in 2025, the first is Daffodils in December, Poems from an Unexpected Life, by Alice Bingham Gorman, available now.
TLR 96 presents poems from two Kentucky Poet Laureates, Silas House and Richard Taylor, and poems from Lesyk Panasiuk, translated from the Ukrainian by Ilya Kaminsky and Katie Farris, from Aigerim Tazhi, translated from the Russian by J. Kates, from Elin Rahnev, translated from the Bulgarian by Katerina Stoykova, from Juan Carlos Mestre, translated from the Spanish by Jeremy Paden, and feature selected poems from Paden’s how to recognize god’s chosen, forthcoming from Accents Press.
We welcome new contributors Marilyn Abildskov, Yvette Adams, Katie Joy Blake, Joshua Bloom, Payton Howard, Bobbie Marquis, Ed Taylor, Bob Thompson, and Robert Weibezahl, who join returning contributors Roy Burkhead, Jill Barrie, Sarah Gorham, Jeff McLaughlin, and Jeffrey Skinner in our pages this spring.
This issue opens with poems from the finalists of The Louisville Review’s National Poetry Book Contest, judged by Jeanie Thompson. The winning selection, Deborah Schupack’s When We Were Gun, will be available in fall 2025, and will be the second title published by Fleur-de-Lis in 2025, the first is Daffodils in December, Poems from an Unexpected Life, by Alice Bingham Gorman, available now.
TLR 96 presents poems from two Kentucky Poet Laureates, Silas House and Richard Taylor, and poems from Lesyk Panasiuk, translated from the Ukrainian by Ilya Kaminsky and Katie Farris, from Aigerim Tazhi, translated from the Russian by J. Kates, from Elin Rahnev, translated from the Bulgarian by Katerina Stoykova, from Juan Carlos Mestre, translated from the Spanish by Jeremy Paden, and feature selected poems from Paden’s how to recognize god’s chosen, forthcoming from Accents Press.
We welcome new contributors Marilyn Abildskov, Yvette Adams, Katie Joy Blake, Joshua Bloom, Payton Howard, Bobbie Marquis, Ed Taylor, Bob Thompson, and Robert Weibezahl, who join returning contributors Roy Burkhead, Jill Barrie, Sarah Gorham, Jeff McLaughlin, and Jeffrey Skinner in our pages this spring.
Founding Editor: Sena Jeter Naslund
Editor and Executive Director: Flora K. Schildknecht
Assistant Editor: Jonathan Weinert
Guest Poetry Editor: Katerina Stoykova
Guest Fiction Editor: Patricia Foster
Cornerstone Editor: Betsy Woods
Director of Operations: Ron Schildknecht
Editor and Executive Director: Flora K. Schildknecht
Assistant Editor: Jonathan Weinert
Guest Poetry Editor: Katerina Stoykova
Guest Fiction Editor: Patricia Foster
Cornerstone Editor: Betsy Woods
Director of Operations: Ron Schildknecht
Limited time offer! The first 20 new and renewing subscribers will receive a copy of Alice Bingham Gorman's Daffodils in December: Poems for an Unexpected Life.
Gorman's beautifully crafted poems take readers from the poet's early childhood to her eighties. In the words of poet Richard Blanco, this is "a book for anyone who has ever asked the proverbial question of life's meaning." Ships with The Louisville Review #96. Subscribe here.
