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For the cover of this ninety-seventh issue of TLR, we feature a work by Jaff Seijas, He walked fast, as if there was somewhere he needed to be, before he realized he was already there. You can read about the artist’s approach in his essay, titled “Simply to Begin,” in praise of artistic spontaneity.
In TLR 97 you’ll find works of both poetry and prose that engage narratives of parents and children, of aging and illness, and of the damaging impacts of a range of prejudices, as well as the power of language itself. You’ll also find not one but two pieces that feature Cave Hill Cemetery, a Louisville, Kentucky landmark, an essay by Sally M. Evans, and short fiction by Carla Carlton.
The Louisville Review has long cherished its local roots while at the same time looking to the world at large, and we proudly present poems by Meltem Ahıska, translated from the Turkish by the poet herself and Donny Smith, from Antoine Tshitungu Kongolo, translated from the French by Conor Bracken, and from Milena Marković, translated from the Serbian by Steven and Maja Teref.
We welcome new contributors Elana Churchill, Raluca Comanelea, Yahya Frederickson, Richard Hamilton, Sua Im, Lynette Lamp, Pamela Mandell, Lisa M. Miller, L. J. O’Neal, Cat de la Paz, and Ken Pisani, to name just a few, who join returning contributors Merle L. Bachman, Angela Jackson-Brown, Jae Newman, Lesléa Newman, Luke Wallin, and others in our pages this fall.
Founding Editor: Sena Jeter Naslund
Editor and Executive Director: Flora K. Schildknecht
Associate Editor: Robin Lippincott
Assistant Editor: Jonathan Weinert
Guest Poetry Editor: Debra Kang Dean
Guest Poetry Editor: Robert Eric Shoemaker
Guest Fiction Editor: Juyanne James
Cornerstone Editor: Betsy Woods
Director of Operations: Ron Schildknecht
Editor and Executive Director: Flora K. Schildknecht
Associate Editor: Robin Lippincott
Assistant Editor: Jonathan Weinert
Guest Poetry Editor: Debra Kang Dean
Guest Poetry Editor: Robert Eric Shoemaker
Guest Fiction Editor: Juyanne James
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.
