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 time I click “send” and cross my fingers for the submissions page to say “your work has been sent”, questions run through my mind. [...]
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 will be considered for our 2013 issue.
Issue 2 is shaping up to be a spectacular mix of established and emerging writers, and we’re receiving [...]
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 mind when I try to conjure up the town, three hundred miles distant. The first image I had approaching Braddock was of fog [...]
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 with compasses in our hands. ―W.S. Merwin2
The bath cabin where you used to leave your dress / has changed forever into [...]
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 you wrote about it. 1
The New York Times has published an extensive mapping of the United States’ population using data from the Census Bureau American Community Survey, based on samples from 2005 to 2009. What’s amazing about these maps is that users can zoom into any city, town, and neighborhood in the country and view the region based on [...]
by Sylvia Linsteadt
In the darkest part of the night, I woke up smiling because of the coyote tracks. I had seen them earlier that day: a side trot, crisp in the sand at Abbott’s Lagoon. Now at 3 a.m. in a dream-haze, they became magic to me. Something about that [...]
Snyder and Ferlinghetti Give a Reading in North Beach, November 7, 2011
by Kristi Moos
Club Fugazi’s sloping red walls and roman columns appear to be stuck between Art Deco and Antiquity. One can see in them the strained elegance of social dances held there in the 1930s and 40s the mixers [...]
What do you get when you combine one of the 20th century’s most distinguished ecological poets with one of the 20th century’s most revered San Francisco-based Beat poets? The fusion of two converging visions of poetry and place. Snyder’s poetic world is among mountain peaks and the solitude of back country wilderness. Ferlinghetti’s world is [...]
by Sylvia Linsteadt
I first discovered Gary Snyder’s poetry the day after I had my wisdom teeth pulled. With a plastic bag of frozen peas against each cheek, held in place by a black fleece neck-warmer, I reached for the book my younger brother had left on my bed while [...]
