The August issue of “Arkansas Review: A Journal of Delta Studies” has been published by the Department of English and Philosophy at Arkansas State University.

Issued three times a year, the periodical offers an interdisciplinary approach to understanding the Mississippi River Delta region through academic articles, fiction, poetry, visual art, interviews, and reviews.

The flood of 1927 is the subject of the August issue’s featured article. Author Russell Bearden, who teaches Arkansas history at Southeast Arkansas College argues that that event was the state’s worst natural disaster and that Arkansas was more profoundly affected by the flood than other states. Photographs, most never published previously, complement the article.

The issue also includes interviews with two Delta writers. Brady Banta, archivist at the Dean B. Ellis Library, talks with historian John Barry, and Tom Williams, creative materials editor for the “Review,” interviews novelist Beverly Lowry.

Fiction, creative nonfiction, and poetry — which evoke or respond to the Delta — also appear in the issue.

Besides Banta and Williams, members of the ASU community whose work appears in the issue, are book reviewers Norman Stafford, Michael Dougan, Angela Williams, and Shannon Kyle Beasley. Photographs by Richard Allen Burns, Jason Combs, Virginia Sturgeon, Angela Williams, and Peggy Wright illustrate the issue.

Single issues of Arkansas Review cost $7.50, and a year’s subscription is $20. Checks should be made payable to “ASU Foundation” with “Arkansas Review” on the memo line. Send to Arkansas Review, P.O. Box 1890, State University, AR 72467.

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