Volume 62, No. 1 of SHENANDOAH now online and free to all!

Readers can now open up our new issue and enjoy the art of Billy Renkl, as well as a whole book’s worth of good writing:

*Poems by Linda Pastan, Robert Wrigley, Lisa Russ Spaar, Margaret Gibson, David Huddle, Andrea Null

* the nine finalists for the 2012 Bevel Summers Prize in the Short Short Story, including the winning story “The Pointer” by Jim McDermott

* short stories on dealing with loss by Gilbert Allen, Marc Dickinson and others

*non-fiction, including a reminiscence of Bible camp by Jeanne Murray Walker and an essay on poet’s notebooks by David Wojahn

* reviews of Hilary Mantel, Yusef Komunyakaa, Claudia Emerson, Charles Frazier, Robert Olmstead and more

* a whimsical editor’s note about buckeyes, literal and metaphorical

In addition see our features, Poem of the Week and rotating quotations from the high and the low.


recent-meR. T. Smith has edited Shenandoah since 1995 and serves as Writer-in-Residence at Washington & Lee. His forthcoming books are Doves in Flight: 13 Fictions and Summoning Shades: New Poems, both due in 2017.