Noble Gases When the last tank of helium arrived, Ben and I were the only people on the loading dock. We were on our lunch break in our...

See You Again When I return to the lab, the new tanks are the first thing I notice. My colleagues had no details about my daughter’s...

The College Guide for Secret Diabetics Blurb Diabetes will bankrupt you and it will kill you. While you have it, it’s time-consuming,...

Dispatches from the Cypress Cities Since the pandemic began, I’ve been looking for a canoe. The internet is a swamp of backorders,...

Dirt Roads Today, hiking along a river in another state, I’m thinking of the dirt roads between Belle Fourche and Spearfish, and how in...

Sans Souci I. He asks, “What brings you to the estate?” and you know that you and your boyfriend are going to say different things....

Of All the Metaphors for Being a Daughter I’m drawn to the strangler fig’s cosmic swirl of execution, aerial trapeze artist mining down...

Portrait of Woman as Coal Mine They abandoned you like the land. Your bones collapsed, your breath, the friction of shadows springing...

i think i’m finally ready to admit that i don’t know the first thing about forgiveness once i wandered in penance an oasis desolate...

Darrin Maier Portrait, 2020 ink, 5 x 7" Smile, 2018 charcoal and ink, 9 x 12" Loomer, 2020 collage, 10 x 14" Good Wife, 2020 ink, 10 x...

A Family History Is Sacred (Place the sky in glass too thick for me to bite through. Give me a void big enough to contain what I am about...

Four Snakes Makes Our Flag After Ashley M. Jones / After Mary Szbist Four Snakes Makes Our Flag silence so indigo it softens the end of...

My Mom Told Me Love is a way of returning home— after work, after war, after jail time, after traveling… I think that only love can put...

moving day I have to put all my pieces // into boxes and get out // of town what a tragedy // to go from one house // to the next what a...

Every Turn After the Appalachians, our flight mimics the river’s every turn, approximating its pulse as an earthen vein. My ears pop over...

The Blessing of the State “Wake up!” I shouted into our fourteen-year-old daughter Regina’s room. “Mom and I are going to get married!”...

Pink Noise Machine The ear knows the river— even the river made methodical, flumed and dammed— from an untuned radio. It knows white...

Reader, I Reader, I Reader, I COREY VAN LANDINGHAM is the author of Antidote (OSU, 2013) and Love Letter to Who Owns the Heavens (Tupelo,...

Masthead Southeast Review, Volume 40.1 EDITOR Laura Biagi (@LauraJBiagi) ASSISTANT EDITOR Amanda Hadlock (@AmandaHadlock2) ART EDITOR...

Readers Southeast Review, Volume 40.1 Gbenga Adesina Fatmire Ahmeti Tacey Atsitty Tanner Barnes Sierra Biggs Sriya Chakraborty Brett...