The South Carolina Review

SCR Volume 58.2 Spring 2026

CONTENTS

POETRY

JANE ZWART Valentines

JOHN A. NIEVES Breachway

HA KIET CHAU 215 Missed Calls

SHANA ROSS Virginia Woolf said the wordless women are the happiest

MCKINLEY JOHNSON Diptych after Friendship by Agnes Martin

URSUS SARTORIS Graffiti to Tear Down the Wall – SCR Series in Latin American Translation

HOMA MOJADIDI Broken Ghazal; Neighbor

DOUG RAMSPECK Crow Eulogy; Love in the Apiary

RACHEL PITTMAN Eve After Exile

WILL SUMMAY On Translation

HARRY GORDON “Shooting leaves…”

WILLIAM JAMES keystone & thread; i have to go back to winter 1987

KEN HOLLAND Terminal Velocity

ADELAIDE SENDLENSKI Self-Portrait at Prospect Lake

BRIANNA RAU family reunion

CHELSEA ZHU Lowcountry Haibun

DAWN ANGELICCA BARCELONA After the Novena

DAN LEACH To the Previous Owner of this House, Whose Mail I Have Been Reading Since Last Fall

DANIEL LURIE On the Eve of My Birthday, I Split Wood Alone in the Shop and Consider Endings

MARJORIE MADDOX Again, Chicken Little Screams,

COLEY GIBSON Misattribution

CANDICE M. KELSEY IEP

MATTHEW J. SPIRENG The Book

SARAH GANE BURTON What an Archaeologist Knows About Dirt

DEBMALYA BANDYOPADHYAY First Discovery

FICTION

ROBERT LONG FOREMAN Slipper

SHAH TAZRIAN ASHRAFI Monument

EMILY ALICE KATZ Molly and Mimi in the Southland

DANA BELL Bear

JARED HANSON Porch Light

IRVIN HUNT Mr. Super

STEVEN FROMM Paging Dr. Santos

CHOLE HOLLOWELL HOOKS Corkscrewed

FRANZ JØRGEN NEUMANN Heat Dome

KATE LISTER CAMPBELL The Run

CREATIVE NON-FICTION

LUCY MCBEE Afterwardsness

BOOK REVIEWS

MAGGIE MITCHELL Dancing for Her Life: A Review of Lauren Morrow’s Little Movements

JOHN RICHARD SAYLOR Lives on the Edge: A Review of Doug Ramspeck’s Dancing in Their Dead Mother’s Dresses