Welcome to Shenandoah

On the blog now: The film The Raven and Robert Penn Warren. Shenandoah is currently seeking submissions for a February 2013 feature on poetry from Aotearoa New Zealand. Please send up to five poems in a Word document to editors Lesley Wheeler and Drew Martin [MORE} Bevel Summers Short Short Story Winners Announced [MORE] Continue reading

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Announcements

Annual SHENANDOAH Prizes

Shenandoah is pleased to announce the winners of its annual prizes for Volume 61 (2011-2012).  All pieces published during the year were considered for the prizes in their given genre. This year’s recipient of the Shenandoah Prize for fiction is … Continue reading

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Gospel Villanelle by Andrew Hudgins

“Jesus will always be there.  He’s waiting.  It’s true.” He wiped his forehead, crooned, began to sway: “Softly and tenderly Jesus is calling you, O, sinner, come home.  Come start your life anew. I’ll stand here as the organ gently … Continue reading

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Special Feature

A Conversation with Ted Kooser

Four Civil War Paintings by Winslow Homer . . . if the painter shows that he observes more than he reflects, we will forget the limitation and take his work as we take nature, which, if it does not think, … Continue reading

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Eleanor Ross Taylor

Always Reclusive

Widowhood provided poet Eleanor Ross Taylor a welcome retreat, the renewed pleasure of staying close to home, writing and reading, a time of review and reflection. Eleanor, widowed in 1994 at the age of 74, was married to noted novelist… Continue reading