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Cerise Press
E-mail: editors[at]cerisepress[dot]com
Web: www.cerisepress.com
Simultaneous submissions: yes, with notification upon acceptance elsewhere Email submissions: yes Reading period: year-round Response time: 2-3 Months Payment: no Contests: no ISSN: 1946-5262 Founded: 2009 Issues per year: 3
Publisher’s description : Cerise Press, an international online journal based in the United States and France, builds cross-cultural bridges by featuring artists and writers in English and translations, with an emphasis on French and Francophone works. Co-founded by Fiona Sze-Lorrain, Sally Molini, and Karen Rigby in 2009, Cerise Press hopes to serve as a gathering force where imagination, insight, and conversation express the evolving and shifting forms of human experience.
Published three times per year, each issue includes poetry, translations, prose, interviews, reviews, art, and photography.
Authors have included Tess Gallagher, Eleanor Wilner, Laura Kasischke, Ray Gonzalez, James Harms, Robert Kelly, Patricia Fargnoli, Karen An-Hwei Lee, Pura López-Colomé (translated by Forrest Gander), Anna Akhmatova, Osip Mandelshtam, Boris Pasternak, Marina Tsvetaeva (translated by Tony Brinkley with Raina Kostova), Hai Zi (translated by Ye Chun), and Abdelwahab Meddeb (translated by Charlotte Mandell), among others.
Recent issues:
Cerise Press (Fall/Winter 2011-12, Vol. 3 Issue 8) features a cover painting by Josh Dorman; poetry by Auxeméry, James Harms, Thomas Lux, Laura McKee, Sean Singer, Tobias Grüterich, Floyd Skloot, Lan Lan, Ko Un, Ed Skoog, Rachel Eliza Griffiths, Franz Wright, Elizabeth Oehlkers Wright, and others; interviews with Bai Hua, Stuart Dischell, Larry Louie, Pattie McCarthy, Edith Pearlman; fiction by Jim Daniels, David Harris Ebenbach, Dana Kroos, Alf Marks, Michael Allen Zell; essays, reviews, photography.
Cerise Press (Summer 2011, Vol. 3 Issue 7) features a cover photo by Tina Carr and Annemarie Schöne; poetry by Ray Gonzalez, Bob Hicok, Laura Mullen, Molly Peacock, Ravi Shankar, Lisa Russ Spaar, Judy Katz, Nance Van Winckel, Franz Wright, and others; fiction by Brendan Moore, James Reed, Richard Penna, Robert Vrbnjak; essays by Nina Cooper, Christine Hume, Ellen McGrath Smith, Mutsuo Takahashi; and interviews with Cara Benson, Carlota Caulfield, Chase Twichell, and Melissa Kwasny.
Cerise Press (Spring 2011, Vol. 2 Issue 6) features a cover photo by Steven Benson; poetry by Henri Michaux, Yang Jian, René Depestre, Aharon Shabtai, G.C. Waldrep, Susan Tichy, Jeannine Hall Gailey, Jennifer Barber, and many others; new fiction by Maura Stanton, Perle Besserman, Geoffrey Heptonstall and Jennifer Kelly-DeWitt; interviews with Susan Musgrave, Peter Cole, Will Barnet, Lynn Saville, and Marti Epstein; as well as essays ranging from Egypt to Croatia, and Canada to France.