~ Delta Poetry Review ~


Volume: 8

Issue: 22

 WINTER 2026


Welcome to Volume 8— DELTA POETRY REVIEW

We’re sorry to let you know you that, due to many circumstances, June 2026 will be the final issue of Delta Poetry Review. We extend our gratitude and many thanks to all of our past poets and our readers for your beautiful words and your participation over the years. The website with all our issues will remain online until the “lease” runs out. Stay safe and keep writing! —The Editors

Remembrance of Dixon Hearne and Selections from his Poetic Work


Featured Poet: Andy Young

Featured Poet

Interview

Book Review

 

  • Bone Saw Villanelle

  • Family Portrait as the Golden Mummies of Bahareya

  • On Syrian Political Cartoonist Ali Farzat's Self Portrait, Drawn After His Hands Were Broken

  • Picasso's Kitchen

  • Self-Portrait as Ganoderma Mushrooms

  • I Water the Hell Tree


Greg Byrd

  • Roofing

Hugo Dos Santos

  • First Day

George Freek

  • The Waiting Sky

Stephen Furlong

  • Survivor Pantoum

Andy Gambell

  • Copperhead

Dianne Oberhansly

  • Cheap and Trembling

  • Family Dis Function #7:  Refusal to Disperse

Eivind Olsen

  • St. Pete’s Resurrections

Steven Searcy

  • Approaching Eighteen

Kristy Snedden

  • Conundrum

Lisa Seidenberg

  • My Wild West

Andrew Shields

  • Conspiracy Theory

Lisa Shulman

  •  New Orleans Tornado Forecast for Mardi Gras Day

Ronnie Sirmans

  • What’s Been Lost

Daniel Thompson

  • The Hurricane Before the Frost


Banner Photograph by Michael Harding

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