~ Delta Poetry Review ~

Volume: 8

Issue: 23

 SUMMER 2026

Welcome to Volume 8— DELTA POETRY REVIEW

We’re sorry to let you know you that, due to many circumstances, this issue, 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: Barbara Hamby

Featured Poet

Interview

Book Review

  • Ode to My Unquiet Mind in the Bowling Alley of My Soul

  • Ode on Conversation

  • Ode to My Brother Who I Haven't Spoken to in Thirteen Years

  • Ode to the Radio

  • Ode on Junk

Pulkita Anand

  • Oh! You have somehow stolen 

Louis Bourgeois

  • Poetry

LC Gutierrez
  • Love Poem With Stars

Spencer Jewell
  • On Sundays, I Paint My Nails Purple to Summon My Mother

Philip C. Kolin

  • Crested Ducks in the Delta Flyway

Uma Menon

  • At Sixteen, I Swore I Would Never Cook

Joseph Mills

  • Word

Daniel Edward Moore

  • Dear Anticipation

Sean F. Munro

  • Hospitality

M. Nasorri Pavone

  • When Not the Early Bird

JL Pracki

  • Nesting

Larry D. Thomas

  •  The Picker

Xiang Xu

  • To My Friends in Mississippi

Matt Zambito

  • Poem at the Root of Necessary Evil

Jianqing Zheng
  • Night in the Woods

Catherine Zickgraf
  • Psalm for Safe Passage
Banner Photograph by Michael Harding

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