~ Delta Poetry Review ~


Volume: 7

Issue: 21

 AUTUMN 2025


Welcome to Volume 7— DELTA POETRY REVIEW

Delta Poetry Review publishes three issues annually. Our February and June issues are “Open Topic” — we welcome poetry with or without a Delta or Southern focus. The October issue focuses primarily but not solely on work about the American South and the Delta region.
          A heartfelt thanks to all of our contributors and readers! We hope you will enjoy the content. —The Editors

Remembrance of Dixon Hearne and Selections from his Poetic Work


Featured Poet: Nicole Cooley

Featured Poet

Interview

Book Review

 

  • Mother Water Ash

  • Once the coastline spoke: I plan to disappear and tell you nothing

  • Sixteen Years to the day Another Hurricane Reverses

  • Trash Definition

  • Trashscape Girlhood

  • River Trash


A. Benét

  • Summer In Virginia Meant

Alyx Chandler

  • Midwesterners Ask Where I’m From

Elayne Diane Dees

  • Weather Report

Terri Kirby Erickson

  • Granny’s Royal Ruby Red Vases

Elizabeth Garcia

  • Meditations on a Burn Pile

Austin Allen James

  • The Road to Pensacola

Spencer Jewell

  • Hurricane Season

Maisie Kirn

  • At the Super Walmart in Slidell, LA

Justin Lacour

  • Metairie

Al Maginnes

  • Bright and Shining

Dave Malone

  • Arkansas Travelers

Gerry Sloan

  • Strange Angels

Maisie Smith

  • Lazarus in the Delta

  • Two Sides of a Highway

Larry Thomas

  • Chinese Tallow

  • Still Life with Gulf, July and Louisiana

Dylan Francis Waguespack

  • Inheritance (a communal will from the last dry-born)

Kelly Whiddon

  • Guide to the Southern Magnolia
    Haunted Pub Crawl

Lola Willis

  • Jalou

John Zheng

  • Seeing the Unseen


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