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Arkansas Review: A Journal of Delta Studies  (formerly Kansas Quarterly) Arkansas Review, Vol. 56, No. 3 (December 2025) Eldorado (poetry) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..... . . .. 163by Linda Parsons The ...

By Dana Chamblee Carpenter Piper sat high in the sycamore watching her house burn. She wasn’t sad about it. A half-mile west, the schoolhouse burned a brighter orange along the horizon like another setting sun. A thin, dark line of clouds pulled taut between t...

Arkansas Review: A Journal of Delta Studies  (formerly Kansas Quarterly) Arkansas Review, Vol. 56, No. 2 (August 2025) Video games, Blackness, and the South:The Procedural Antiracist Praxis of Mafia III...................................................... ...

By Katherine Kallas Off 8th Street Memory is a place shattered by wind Its pieces swept up into god’s dustpan and dumped in the Mississippi River The water is murky here, on the tilted shore off 8th street Frogs with full lungs, as bulbous as onions Cicadas s...

Arkansas Review: A Journal of Delta Studies  (formerly Kansas Quarterly) Arkansas Review, Vol. 56, No. 1 (April 2025) The Pear Orchard (fiction) ............................................................. 3by Cary Holladay Jail, No Bail (poetry) ...........

By Cary Holladay Twenty-eight years had passed since Elvis Presley died, but people could still point to his room at Baptist Memorial Hospital. The now-dilapidated building was scheduled for demolition on Sunday, November 6, 2005. Vince Johnson, interim direc...

By William Heath At Parchman, we’re stripped and searched, issued a towel, a bar of soap, a toothbrush, sheets and pillow cases, a striped prison outfit. Filthy cells are full of bugs. A jail is just another house, less comfortable than most, I admit,...

By Scott T. Hutchison Trust has altered herself with excess, she’s become engorged— a dark-legged tick, filled to bursting after long-feeding at the blood trough of steady-pumping veins. Her narrow mouth could release—but it loves the stabbing kiss, t...

By Jacqueline Guidry Even at four, I’d eavesdropped on enough conversations to know all Texans considered themselves superior to everyone else. Especially superior to everyone in Louisiana. Especially, according to my mother, superior to us. But those Texas re...

Arkansas Review: A Journal of Delta Studies  (formerly Kansas Quarterly) Arkansas Review, Vol. 55, No. 3 (December 2024) The California Story (fiction) ...................................................... 163by Mary Troy The Big Piney (poetry) .............

(Chapter one of a novel in progress) By Mary Troy In late August in the Midwest, the heat travels through flesh and bakes joints and bones; breathing would be easier with gills. At Joy’s house, the windows are nailed shut for safety, all of them that is but th...

By Michele Parker Randall What else can my eyes unsee? No signs, no tells, no warnings. What more can my ears unhear? Cries for mama. Your voice no longer peals *wake up*, and your pulse once iambic skip-stopped. All amiss, gone. A leaving, as i...

By Stephanie Vanderslice It’s challenging to talk about what happened to you casually, in normal conversation. Sudden Cardiac Arrest is a mysterious phrase, for one thing. Awkward and vague. That “time he collapsed in sudden death on the kitchen floor of our C...

By Floyd Collins I remember still the lakes of our eighteenth year. Each stream seemed a running aisle without altar, Teeming with blue channel cat and trout at an age When all mystery arises from the commonplace. A young man’s breath would catch in his bea...

By Mary McAlister Randlett When Carey got home from kindergarten, Mama was still in her bathrobe which could mean she had a headache. Carey gave her a little hug, but was careful not to keep touching her. She leaned over her mother’s shoulder so she could see ...

By Roscoe Barns III The Miss-Lou Military Museum and Veterans Welcome/Information Center 107 Jefferson Davis Boulevard Natchez, Mississippi, 39120 by Roscoe Barnes III, PhD Cultural Heritage Tourism Manager Visit Natchez The Miss-Lou Military Museum and Veter...