The Sewanee Conglomerate
Named for the uppermost rock formation in Sewanee's corner of the Cumberland Plateau, the Sewanee Conglomerate is the magazine's blog. Check here for short pieces about books and current events written by SR staff and guest contributors.
Another Country might be slotted into the category of social realism, but here, a rupture of genre occurs.
Who among us is still learning the language of erotica? Its palpitations and cadences?
Perhaps in this stanza, we begin to experience more fully the poet’s true feelings about the qualities of being human, which are seasoned with disgust and wonder alike.
Work hard, read deeply. Three Labor Day picks from the staff of the Review.
The Sewanee Review is pleased to announce that Jericho Brown is the recipient of the 2024 Aiken Taylor Award for Modern American Poetry.
I think this is what the best novels do: they reflect the movements of our interior worlds back to us, and thus make us more willing participants in our own lives.
Lately I’ve been thinking about the metaphorical mind and what it means for a poet to experience it deeply or shallowly. Ruth Stone has such a mind for sure.
The incremental silencing of Eliza’s life at once estranges her from herself and transforms her sensorial perceptions of the world.
This is dialogue at its most subtly aphoristic—when the words that come out of a character’s mouth feel both lived and fabled.