a note from the editors

Welcome.

After more than thirty years GSU Review has become New South. Our role as Georgia State University’s journal of art and literature has not changed; however, it was time for a revision, a chance for a clearer mission.

In an interview with poetry editor, Jenny Sadre-Orafai, Jake Adam York speaks of the responsibility of being a “Southern” writer, of writing conditioned by place. While we work within the literary traditions of a geographic “Old South,” we are not exclusively a “Southern” journal, with its myriad implications. We are Southern by default, not by design. Evidenced by the pieces in this inaugural issue, we are dedicated to finding and publishing the best work by both visual and literary artists.

Inside: Keith Lee Morris mines his fever dreams, and Jon Sindell chronicles an aging hippie’s struggles with fatherhood. Billy Reynolds’s speaker loves his ducks, and Cody Lumpkin’s catastrophic wing shacks become and hover. Brian Ray discusses the rise of the “9/11 novel,” and Sarah Manguso’s Siste Viator gives reviewer Anis Shivani something to smile about.

Experience New South.