The Sundog Years
To conclude their experience interning for The Southeast Review, Diana Calderón, Arissa Cushnie, and Grant Wendt searched the archives...
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Nov 4, 20192 min read
"At their first meeting, my first boyfriend asks my father 'what was prison like?'"
At their first meeting, my first boyfriend asks my father "what was prison like?" When my boyfriend touches me, I feel the wings of my...
Oct 14, 20192 min read
"Aubade with Wind Chimes and Hesitation"
Aubade with Wind Chimes and Hesitation Head tucked between the pillow and its ragged blue case, the dog snores more softly now. We fell...
Sep 23, 20193 min read
"Flamingos"
Flamingos As the nurses pushed your bed into the OR, you extended your arms toward us, & we promised we’d take you to see the flamingos...
Sep 16, 20192 min read
Two Poems by Alycia Pirmohamed
A Dark Bird There is no right answer to how a young girl finds a home. Sometimes, she marvels at the swift larks or names the crows after...
Sep 9, 20191 min read
Two Poems by Ben Purkert
The Only Confession I did something wrong I carved a name into a tree and it wasn’t even mine the name belonged to someone I used to love...
Jul 29, 20192 min read
"The Sun, the Ship"
The Sun, the Ship the sun shone as it had to on the white legs disappearing into the green water, and the expensive delicate ship that...
Jul 15, 20194 min read
Two Poems by Alicia Elkort and Jennifer Givhan
Two Poets Email on a Sunday Afternoon I used to think what happened to me / massive creature & putrid / pinned to the floor, ripped open,...
Jul 1, 20192 min read
"Teething Borders"
Teething Borders “Borders are set up to define the places that are safe and unsafe, to distinguish us from them. A border is a dividing...
Mar 25, 20191 min read
"Sexting"
Sexting You say words work when hands can’t reach. So I try, send you messages that set a scene: the tool shed out back, windows steamed,...
Mar 11, 20192 min read
Two Poems by Derrick Austin
The Devil's Book There’s no fun in witchery these days. Sure, I shudder cops with invisible needles, but magic’s no calling. I simply...
Feb 18, 20191 min read
Fifty
Fifty He said if you keep punishing yourself like this you’ll be old by the time you’re fifty and right there in the instant of him...
Feb 11, 20192 min read
Hells Bells
Hells Bells Wasn’t allowed to listen to secular music. Mother said it was the devil’s music. Church said Satan was made of music, glory...
Feb 4, 20192 min read
The Tools We Used
The Tools We Used 1 My father gripping the lawnmower's handle on Saturdays to pummel twigs was how we measured time. His pulse beating in...
Jan 14, 20193 min read
Two Poems by Hai-Dang Phan
Ballistics In a ballistics lab in Maryland three artists known as The Propeller Group aimed assault rifles at each other and fired them...
Jan 7, 20192 min read
bloodnectar
Danez Smith's poem "bloodnectar" was originally published in The Southeast Review 34.2. bloodnectar brother our blood intersects in...
Dec 10, 20183 min read
Two Poems by Justin Phillip Reed
Considering My Disallowance I lived. An absurdity. My body rose to stir in response to starshine, so much of me requiring its fire....
Nov 19, 20181 min read
Ode to Desire
Quiñones's poem "Ode to Desire" was originally published in The Southeast Review 35.2. Ode to Desire Oh perfect engine you craft me into...
Nov 5, 20183 min read
Two Poems with Process Notes by Ching-In Chen
Infinity Plus One after Terry Boyd This day allotted red sun. Control background, a son borne the shivers. Remember I replaced the river...
Oct 15, 20183 min read
Three Poems by Sally Wen Mao
Parthenogenesis Envy these female hammerheads: how they swim in purified fields, pregnant by salt or ocean without contact with males....
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