Attacking the Pietà

Stephen Corey has published nine collections of poems, most recently There Is No Finished World (White Pine Press, 2003). He has co-edited four books in three genres, and he has been with The Georgia Review since 1983, where he is currently serving as editor—and, as of 2014, editor of the new Georgia Review book series under the auspices of the University of Georgia Press. His poems, essays, and reviews have appeared in many periodicals, among them Shenandoah, The American Poetry Review, Poets & Writers, and the Kenyon Review. Corey has taught at the University of Florida, where he also earned his PhD in English, and at the University of South Carolina, and he has served as poet-in-residence or visiting poet/editor for a number of conferences and writing programs across the United States.