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Burnside Review
P.O. Box 1782
Portland, OR 97207
Phone: 503-750-6396
E-mail: sid <at> burnsidereview <dot> org
Simultaneous submissions: yes Email submissions: yes Reading period: All Year Response time: 2-4 months Payment: copies Contests: yes (see website) ISSN: 1555-0931 Founded: 2004 Issues per year: Every 9 months Copy price: $8 Sample price (postpaid): $6 Average pages: 80 Subscription: $12 (2 issues)
Publisher’s description: Burnside Review, a truly independent literary journal from Portland, Oregon, gets its name from the street that runs the length of the city and divides it in two. Each issue is filled with poetry, an interview, book reviews, and one featured short story. Editor Sid Miller says, "we love poetry that surprises, finds beauty in truly unexpected places and that breaks your heart."
Past contributors include, Norman Dubie, Larissa Szporluk, Martha Ronk, Alan Shapiro, Linda Bierds, Ben Lerner, Paul Guest, Brenda Hillman, Ralph Angel and Alberto Rios.
“Burnside Review, finally, signifies a new kind of light. It’s a brittle sort of light, for sure. No grand gestures are made and a wry sense of human failing twinkles through, rather than a garish sense of wickedness. Patterns gather but are not imposed with an iron nib. The reach is not wide, but it knows what is has got. In fact, it resembles nothing ever seem, quite.” -Douglas Spangle
Recent issues:
5.2, 2009 - Made possible by the winner of the Literary Art's 2008 Publishing Fellowship, Burnside Review's special edition, All-Oregon issue, features 33 poets and fiction writers from across the state. Contributors include: Mary Syzbist, Kevin Sampsell, Willy Vlautin, Michele Glazer, Vern Rutsala and Henry Carlile.
5.1, 2009 features new poems from Alan Shapiro, Norman Dubie, Heather McHugh, Brenda Hillman, and many more. There are new translations from Poland, Brazil and Italy, along with a new story from Pauls Toutonghi and reviews of Robyn Art's and Matthew Dickman's new books.