The South Carolina Review

SCR Volume 56.2 Spring 2024

 

Contents

Poetry

NATALIE GIARRATANO Farmer’s Almanac: Wildfire Outlook

LAURA VOGT Folklore of Past Lives

MARÍA ESQUINCA Dream In Which I Return Home; Dream in Which My Father Ask For Forgiveness; My Mother Crawls Out of The Ocean

DANIEL OOI My Christian Grandfather’s Taoist Funeral 

ELLEN JUNE WRIGHT The Secret Life of Wisteria; I Carry Wisteria In My Chest

JENNIFER GIVHAN Order of Operations ((or the Viral Equation that “Broke” the Internet) or Mothering Through Chronic/Mental Illness); My Daughter & My Daughter & I Test Positive for Covid

JAVIER SANDOVAL The Last Dozen Drizzled-City Nights

CHARLES BYRNE Everything happens for a reason

ZACHARIAH CLAYPOLE WHITE Medical History as Creation Myth

SHAUN TURNER The Bull Moose Bluff Charges

KENIA CANO Stone;Fiesta

MEGAN J. ARLETT Alhambra Incantation; August Afternoon in the Olive Orchards

JOHN T. HOWARD Our Father

JULIE FUNDERBURK Shoes

MEGHAN STERLING Love Poem for My Husband at 4 AM

JOSH LEFKOWITZ Forty-One Years

EMILY LAKE HANSEN Baby Got Back But It Won’t Fit In The Seat

ROBBIE Q. TELFER Pachyderm

AMORAK HUEY Everything I Know About Love I Learned from Indiana Jones

SARAH BROCKHAUS To the Cockroach

ANGIE MACRI Findings

JEFF NEWBERRY Word Problem

DOUG RAMSPECK River Birch

Fiction

BRADLEY BAZZLE Each Unique Specimen 

LESLIE PIETRZYK Girls Like That End Up Fine

MATT LUMBARD Big River, little river

M.O. WALSH The Staggered

WILLIAM WALKER Chemin de Dieu

ROBERTO ABAD If You Think About It, It’s Not So Bad SCR Series in Latin American Translation 

BHAVIKA SICKA Mooring

VASILIOS MOSCHOURIS The Impact

CLAYTON BRADSHAW-MITTAL Carolina Demon Story

DENNIS MCFADDEN Territorial Imperatives

S.J. LAURO Snake Luck 

Book Reviews

SCOTT GOULD One Foot Here, One Foot There: Khem K. Aryal’s The In-Betweeners 

JON SEALY Implacably Real: Ron Rash’s The Caretaker