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
Our third issue of the magazine.
William Gass—fiction writer and philosopher—has always focused on the accumulation of acerbic, image-driven language. Gass’s preface to his 1968 collection, In the Heart of the Heart of the Country, includes his impetus for writing “The Pedersen Kid,” his breakneck novella: “And I began by telling a story to entertain a toothache. To entertain a toothache
Not long ago I emailed an editor to say I was disappointed in the quality of the essays for their failure to address issues that had some relevance beyond the writers’ own world. I said I’d been subscribing to the publication for two years. Instead of the writer drawing me in on an exotic travel
The following is from Cave Wall 4, featuring more poems by Sandra Beasley, along with poems by Emma Bolden, Kate Fetherston, Carrie Fountain, Norbert Hirschhorn, Richard Jackson, Sharon Kessler, Hailey Leithauser, Al Maginnes, Sebastian Matthews, Rebecca McClanahan, Diana Pinckney, CJ Sage, Michael Steffen, Elizabeth Volpe, Rebecca Warren, William Wenthe, and Terri Wolfe. Issue 4 will
Palms From Burnside Review 4.1 “The L.A. Issue” Click for PDF
The following is from Burnside Review 4.1, “The L.A. Issue.” Little Jesus a large statue of a baby jesus will make your house look small even if it’s christmas even if it’s not there are many missions in california in los angeles I still haven’t learned spanish like a prayer forgive me for taking the
If your brain were on fire, perhaps the first instinct would be to reach for a pitcher of water to douse the conflagration. But why, I ask, why not let it burn? Why not let that gray tissue pop and sizzle with blue flames? It is not everyday that such an experience as cerebrum-combustion occurs.
The following is a brief excerpt of an essay from West Branch 63, Fall/Winter 2008. Author James Harms is a contributing editor to West Branch. “Goodtime Jesus” and Other Sort-of Prose Poems I suspect the reason I can’t remember my first encounter with the prose poem has a great deal to do with when I
The following is from Versal 6, the literary annual out of Amsterdam, the Netherlands: http://versal.wordsinhere.com. Contributors include: Wiljan van den Akker, Marosa di Giorgio, Marilyn Hacker, Takashi Hiraide, Toshiya Kamei, Sándor Kányádi, Dawn Lonsinger, Emmanuel Moses, Sawako Nakayasu and Xiao Kaiyu. Order on website or pick up at select bookstore locations. Single copy: USD 15.
The following is from Hobart 9, the Games issue. Magic: The Essay There are some basics you need to understand. First, Magic: The Gathering isn’t anything like the Milton Bradley classics you grew up with. There’s no gameboard or spinners or little plastic cars you fill with pink and blue plastic children. No hotels to
The following is from Hobart 9, the Games issue. Ken Sent Me: Lost in the Land of the Lounge Lizards(1) I am not Leisure Suit Larry(2), except for when I am. For instance, when I was eleven, I was Leisure Suit Larry for several weeks while he taught me about sex and I helped him
