The Spring 2020 issue of the Georgia Review is available now. This year, the magazine focuses on the 2020 Census. Gerald Maa is editor and director of the publication.
"I've always thought that the Census is an especially illuminating practice that shows a gap between bureacratic expectations and lived experience. The government comes by and counts everyone and that's supposed to give a somewhat comprehensive picture of American citizenship but we all know that's impossible, but this is what we try to do."
Mas says a wide range of authors contributed to this edition.
"I just thought it would be a great way for poets, fiction writers, essayists, local activists, and scholars to think about what it means to live your life in a country and have that life be part of a larger, abstracted representation of what the collective life is."
The issue covers a variety of content, including: poems, short stories, nonfiction essays and art.
Maa is new to the Review, which has been in existence since 1947. Visit www.thegeorgiareview.com.
