ZYZZYVA 93 / San Francisco, CA
New England Review 32.3 / Middlebury, VT
DIAGRAM 11.4 / Tucson, AZ
Camera Obscura 3 / Addison, TX
Fiddleblack 2 / Peninsula, OH
Barrelhouse 9 / Washington, DC
Antioch Review Fall 2011 / Yellow Springs, OH
Birkensnake 4 / Providence, RI
Gigantic Sequins 2.2 / Philadelphia, PA
Paris Review 199 / Manhattan, NY
Bateau 4.2 / Northhampton, MA
6x6 24 / Brooklyn, NY
Travis Kurowski began Luna Park in 2007: traviskurowski.com.
In the latest issue—May/Summer 2012—of AWP’s The Writer’s Chronicle, University of Iowa Nonfiction Writing Program director Robin Hemley makes a case for the gift economy of literary magazines in his essay “Writing for Free.” Of course this is an easy position for Hemley to take, as he recieves a regular salary from the university, and Hemley himself
Poet, editor, and scholar Reed Whittemore passed away last Friday at the age of 92. I only came upon Whittemore’s work a few years ago, when I stumbled upon a 1963 pamphlet by him on the literary magazine, published by University of Minnesota Press and titled, simply, Little Magazines. The book remains the most concise and
I worked at Mississippi Review for a year and a half in graduate school. Fiction writer Frederick Barthelme—Rick—was the editor of MR, and he was also my graduate school director down there in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. I am fairly certain the only reason Rick finally let me work on the magazine was because I pestered him
Facing Pages, an immense independent magazine event in Arnhem, The Netherlands, will be held the weekend of April 20 to the 22, 2012. From the website: A weekend full of exhibitions of unique magazines, lectures by renowned magazine makers and magazine lovers. So please join us for tons of inspiration, networking and fantastic parties. A
I hung out with Wayne Miller—co-editor (with Phong Nguyen) of Pleiades—for a few hours earlier this week, and he pointed me towards a symposium on sentimentality in the latest issue (vol. 32, no. 1). Edited by Joy Katz, the topic emerged out of what Katz describes as “a growing resistance to sentiment among poets,” and
Yesterday marked the four-year anniversary for Luna Park, beginning back in January 2008. (LP began as a Blogspot blog in July 2007.) There is now a lot of good content in the archives, thanks largely to the fantastic efforts of Marcelle Heath—wearing various editorial hats over the years with LP—and also thanks to everyone who helped
Best of lists are by definition failures. They are subjective and, in most cases, arbitrary. But they can be useful for the conversations they create (often born from disagreement) and their recognition of quality; they bring attention to things. Though the media is awash with similar lists for albums, books, film, restaurants, and much else, I
I am a big fan of the Pushcart Prize anthologies; I own the first 1976 anthology, the 25th anniversary edition, and each one from the past six years. Pushcart editor Bill Henderson is something of a hero of mine, a feeling probably held by much of the literary publishing world; I use his book The
Yesterday I received two copies of the first issue of OCCUPY!, an Occupy Wall Street inspired newspaper from the editors of n+1. More than many, perhaps, I tend to see literature in periodical form—by which I mean magazines, journals, newspapers, zines, etc—as an essential part of literary history and culture, in a tradition stretching back to
Luna Park will be posting its first Best Lit Mags of the Year list next month. I am both nervous and anxious to finish the list—nervous for obvious reasons, and anxious because I don’t remember seeing such a thing before for lit mags. If such a list existed in 1978, the first issue of New
