About Beth Bretl and The Southern Review

Today's poem is "A Convincing Story"

from the Southern Review

Beth Bretl received her PhD in creative writing from the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee. Her writing appeared in Aufgabe, The North American Review, Porcupine Literary Arts Magazine, Calyx, and elsewhere.
Other poems on the web by Beth Bretl:
"Casualty"
About the Southern Review:
Poets in this issue: Colleen Abel, Idris Anderson, Talia Bloch, Beth Bretl, Fleda Brown, Olivia Clare, Claudia Emerson, Chanda Feldman, Alice Friman, Stephen Gibson, Jesse Lee Kercheval, David Kirby, Lynne Knight, Philip Levine, Frannie Lindsay, Jay Rogoff, Will Schutt, Evie Shockley, Floyd Skloot, Michael Spence, Robert Thomas, Joe Wilkins

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Editor: Jeanne M. Leiby

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August 28, 2008: "Siren Song for Late September" by Alice Friman
August 27, 2008: "Scavengers" by Fleda Brown
August 26, 2008: "Settle" by Chanda Feldman
May 11, 2008: "Midden" by Brendan Galvin
February 3, 2008: "Hordes of Indigent Psychologist" by Scott Coffel
January 29, 2008: "Runaway Bride" by Allison Seay
November 10, 2007: "Columba livia" by Sandra Meek
November 9, 2007: "Poltergeist" by Jennifer Metsker
November 6, 2007: "A celebration of lasting achievment" by Bob Hicok
August 5, 2007: "Be the Dog" by J. Allyn Rosser
August 2, 2007: "Haruspicy" by Sarah Hannah
June 6, 2007: "Not Mattering to the Earth" by Colette Inez
June 5, 2007: "Something in My Eye" by Allison Smythe
February 9, 2007: "Mysterious Ways" by Alison Pelegrin
September 15, 2006: "God of The" by Garrett Doherty
September 14, 2006: "One Morning a Rose Blooms" by Richard Tillinghast
September 13, 2006: "Aubade" by Rhoda Janzen
June 22, 2006: "Trouble." by Melissa Stein
June 19, 2006: "Love of Sport" by Bob Hicok
January 19, 2006: "Key to Pronunciation: /sälm/" by Rita Mae Reese
January 17, 2006: "Leaving the Land" by Stephen C. Behrendt
January 16, 2006: "The Clown's Mother" by Brent Pallas
November 25, 2004: "Founder's day" by Bob Hicok
November 24, 2004: "In Thrush Light" by Gyorgyi Voros
November 23, 2004: "To Acedia" by Daniel Tobin
November 22, 2004: "Close Quarters" by Cathryn Essinger
September 25, 2004: "Dry Brush Painting of Winter Crows" by Barry Sternlieb
September 23, 2004: "James McNeill Whistler at St. Ives, 1883" by Floyd Skloot
September 22, 2004: "Keep and Give Away" by Susan Meyers
September 21, 2004: "The Wife of Job" by Morri Creech
September 20, 2004: "Indian River Inlet" by Fleda Brown
March 10, 2004: "See! I Will Not Forget You. I Have Carved You on the Palm of My Hand." by Thomas Reiter
March 9, 2004: "Mary Rockwell Talks to Her Son in the Hospital after He's Been Stabbed During a Fencing Lesson" by Julianna Baggott
August 20, 2003: "Water Rising" by Fleda Brown
August 19, 2003: "Neither the Season, nor the Place" by Susan Meyers
August 18, 2003: "Revival" by Lynn Powell
June 7, 2003: "The Reliquary" by Ann Townsend
June 5, 2003: "Hieronymus and the Lion" by Maurya Simon
June 3, 2003: "Pink Salmon" by Cecily Parks
May 1, 2003: "Heron" by John Drury
April 29, 2003: "For the Fog Horn When There Is No Fog" by Sarah Hannah
December 30, 2002: "Brains" by Rodney Jones
December 16, 2002: Heaven by Natasha Saje
September 9, 2002: "My Emotions Are Like Fish" by John Brehm

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