As a writer who dutifully submits her work to literary magazines, I often wonder: how do the editors of literary magazines handle submissions? What really goes on behind the scenes?

Each…

Submissions for Issue 2 are quickly wrapping up! Send us your poetry, fiction, or nonfiction by May 15th, 2012-- just four weeks away. If you miss the deadline, your work…

by Brett Busang
 
There aren’t many genuinely dead places. Nor is Braddock, Pennsylvania – though a person with options is not likely to settle there. The word “miasma” comes to…

by Kristi Moos

 
Which was more painful, to be a refugee in someone else’s country or a refugee in your own? ―Mahmoud Darwish, Journal of an Ordinary Grief 1

We are asleep…

by Kristi Moos
 
 
Poet Diane Wakoski, in her poem “Walking Past Paul Blackburn’s Apt. On 7th St.”:

I wanted to take a walk
and think of the city
whose only remaining beauty
is that…