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Skidrow Penthouse
About Skidrow Penthouse: Skidrow Penthouse is an elegant 300+ page journal that contains the richest and widest possible range of poetry, fiction, and art.
Contact Information:
68 East Third Street Apt 16
New York, NY 10003
Phone: (212) 614-9505
Email: info[at]skidrowpenthouse[dot]com
Submission/Subscription Information:
Simultaneous submissions: yes Email submissions: yes Reading period: year-round Response time: 3 months Payment: copies Contests: yes (see website) Founded: 1998 Issues per year: 1 Copy price: $12(US), $16(Cdn) Average pages: 250 Sample price (postpaid): $12(USD), $16(CAD) Subscription (Ind) $12(US), $16(CAD)
Publisher’s description: Rain Mountain Press/Skidrow Penthouse takes its name from “When The Cicadas Return,” a poem by Bill Featherman, an obscure and homeless Minnesota poet and musician: “This is the night Andromeda crawled / down from your ceiling’s flatland / of shining crickets, // a night to check the leaves / and bring the scarecrows to bed // This is the night cicadas landed on Earth / and set out toward the half-fires // and rain mountains that the people left behind.”
We favor writers who speak the language of storms, the smell of fire after the smoke is gone, styles that are idiosyncratic and grounded, while at the same time suggesting realities far beyond themselves, whether those realities be political, cultural, or of some undefined nature. We want to spread the voice scrawled on the walls of an overpass during a cold Rocky Mountain night, the way Bill Featherman did until the night of his death in 1993.
We are now accepting poems and flash fictions within the body of the email at info@skidrowpenthouse.com. No attachments, please. Continue to mail us your lengthy short stories.
Recent issues:
This issue (14) features poetry from Gaspar Orozco, Anna Adams, Paul B. Roth, Andre Oerke, Stephen Campiglio, Jeffrey MacLachlan, Errol Miller, Anthony Seidman, Michael Weston, Chet Hart, Mercedes Lawry, Rebecca Lilly, Dennis Saleh, Leigh Herrick, Margaret Gilbert, W. Todd Kaneko, Susan H. Maurer, Chocolate Waters, Tony Gloeggler, Randi Ward, Jim Cory, Lynne Potts, and more; fiction from Kristiina Ehin, Nitzan Blouin, Jiří Klobouk, Rosalind Palermo Stevenson, Patrick McKinnon, and Patrick Sugrue; and nonfiction from Stephanie Dickinson.
Our new issue (13) includes writing by Jim Cory, Jody Azzouni, Christine Tierney, Catherine Sasanov, Leigh Herrick, Tod Thilleman, Dan Raphael, Sheila E. Murphy, Carolyn Stoloff, Paul Roth, Patrick Lawler, Chet Hart, Anthony Seidman, Tony Gloeggler, Kara Dorris and many others.
12 features writing by David Chorlton, John Goode, Anthony Seidman, Lawrence Applebaum, Jim Cory, Crow Billings, Tracy Thomas, James Grabill, Nava Renek, Heller Levinson, Leopoldo María Panero (translated by Arturo Mantecón).
last updated 02/26/2013