The Greensboro Review
Edited by Terry L. Kennedy, UNC Greensboro

Frequency: Spring and Fall
Latest Issue: Number 108: Fall 2020
Size: 6 x 9
Bibliographic Information: ISSN: 0017-4084
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For more than fifty years, the MFA Writing Program at UNC Greensboro has published The Greensboro Review. The journal began in 1966, when students in the first years of the MFA wanted a place to publish their creative work. With $500 from the Chancellor—“an amount that hardly covered the cost of printing 500 copies,” according to Robert Watson, poet and co-founder of the MFA program—students and faculty used the campus duplicating shop to print the debut issue, then collated it by hand. Greensboro painter Betty Watson designed the logo that is still in use today.
The mission of the journal quickly shifted from “a house organ for our MFA students,” and the Review began to publish writers like Ezra Pound and Joyce Carol Oates. But as longtime editor Jim Clark described, “the GR has always taken the most joy in publishing work by new writers at the beginning of their careers, and we are proud to include in this group such writers as Lewis Nordan, Yusef Komunyakaa, William Matthews, Alan Shapiro, Charles Simic, and Dave Smith.” In 1984, the GR established its Literary Awards thanks to an anonymous donor, and these prizes led to a more global following. Works from the journal are consistently included in the Pushcart Prize anthologies, Best American Short Stories, the O. Henry Awards, New Stories from the South, and other collections honoring the finest writing by both established and emerging voices.
Today, the GR continues to be faculty- and student-run, and our editors regularly showcase writers whose work may be risk-taking or overlooked. The Greensboro Review is a proud member of the Community of Literary Magazines and Presses.
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Editor
Terry L. Kennedy
Associate Editor
Jessie Van Rheenen
Managing Editor
Robin Hendricks
Fiction Editors
Evan Fackler & Patricia Patterson
Poetry Editors
Julia Edwards & Matthew Valades
Editorial Assistant
Cortney Esco
Editorial Intern
Kirby Knowlton
Editorial Board
Xhenet Aliu, Stuart Dischell, Julia Funderburk, Holly Goddard Jones, Craig Nova, Emilia Phillips
Consulting Senior Editors
Fred Chappell, Lee Zacharias
Table of Contents
Number 108, Fall 2020
Editor’s Note, Terry L. Kennedy
Fiction
The Spanish Crisis, Sarah Viren
Knowing, Andrew Joseph Kane
Smashed, Sierra Emily Stonebraker
Tiger Drill in Butterfly Class, Stephen Hundley
The Publication, Hyan Hyun-Ock Im
White Dog, Red Desert, Bridget Apfeld
Poetry
Auld Lang Syne, David Starkey
Earthbound, Heidi Seaborn
Voicemail From My Mother, Robert Lynn
The Self-Improvement Spiritual, Rick Bursky
Coffin Bell, Andrew Bode-Lang
The Watching Brief, G.C. Waldrep
Sounding, Kevin McLellan
Vending Machine Sutra, Owen McLeod
Turning 45, Kathleen Balma
Blood in the Air, Christopher Citro
Calan Gaeaf, John A. Nieves
An Imperfect Figure, Tegan Daly
The Busted Maraca, Katie Hartsock
The Dream Begins with a Dissappointing Menu, Michelle Turner
Autumn Wind, After the Funeral, Judith Harris
Between, Tyler Wagner
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Greensboro Review, 3302 MHRA Building, UNC Greensboro, Greensboro, NC 27402-6170
Phone (336) 334-5459
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