• Blurry Finally in Too Soon Each of Us

    Carl Phillips

    Spring 2019

    A water-meadow is not a flood-meadow.

    A working meadow’s not a fallow field.

    Carl Phillips is the author, most recently, of Scattered Snows, to the North. His first book, In the Blood, will be reissued by Farrar, Straus & Giroux in 2025. His 2023 book, Then the War, received the Pulitzer Prize.

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    The Sewanee Review is pleased to announce that Jericho Brown is the recipient of the 2024 Aiken Taylor Award for Modern American Poetry.

    Long Days

    Dan O'Brien

    Dan:      Thank you for these pages, Paul. Normally pitching is prose. Conversation, really. But yeah, it sure is fun to imagine. I had hoped to finish our pitch before going under. Aware that surgery carries with it the possibility of not waking up. Uncontrollable bleeding. Heart failure, stroke. Clots.

    From La Ribera

    John R. Sesgo

    Campoamor and Santiago de la Ribera lie an hour’s bicycle ride from each other. On Antonio’s mental map each town is enclosed by a red circle, and a line of the same color weaves in and out of dirt roads and bramble patches and cornfields to connect both places. The sea spreads a mile or two in the east, its blue edge unmixing with the coast.

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