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Cutthroat (#4) features exciting new work by Joy Harjo, Luis Alberto Urrea, Michael Blumenthal, Melissa Kwasny, Michael Schiavone, James Hoggard, Bryce Milligan, Rusty Harris, Michael Rattee, and Patricia Smith, book reviews, plus translations from the Romanian poet, Mircea Ivanescu, by Adam Sorkin and Lidia Vianu. 180 pages/$15.

 

Willow Springs (Issue 61) features poetry by Ray Amorosi, John Hodgen, Jim Daniels, and Kathleen Flenniken, among many others, and prose by Derek White, Adrianne Harun, Blake Butler, and Diana Joseph. A conversation with Marvin Bell ranges from the politics of poems to the "ongoing arguments about the poetic line." And Stuart Dybek discusses the tyranny of chronology, the difference between fiction and memoir, and his interest in "all categories of the fantastical."

 

Glimmer Train (#66) includes stories by William Luvaas, Thomas O’Malley, Andrea Cohen (winner of the Very Short Fiction Award), Danielle Lavaque-Manty, Eric Tretheway, Al Sim, and Christopher Bundy. Interviews with Ruth Ozeki and Jay McInerney. Sara Whyatt’s article on silenced voices focuses on Vietnamese writer and activist Tran Khai Thanh Thuy.

 

Contemporary poetry in English from the U.S. and around the world in English translation fill the pages of Spoon River Poetry Review (Volume 32, Number 2). This issue includes winners of the Editors' Prize, judged by Philip Brady, and a "Poets on Teaching" essay by Ted Kooser. The featured poet is Angie Macri (interview included). Also in this issue: Jennifer K. Sweeney, M. A. Schaffner, and translations by Paul Sohar.

 

On January 22, 2008, the inaugural issue of memoir (and) went on sale in over 600 stores in U.S. and Canada. We think you'll love the featured pieces by media critic Norman Solomon, internationally-known poet, Ellen Bass, innovative graphic memoir by Bradley Littlejohn, as well as other poetry, prose, photography and art.

 

The current volume of Gettysburg Review (Spring 2008) contains essential poems by Alice Friman, Barbara Goldberg, and Tim Nolan, and stories by Victoria Lancelotta, Naomi J. Williams, and Kerry Neville Bakken, among others. For lovers of nonfiction, highlights include Norma Marder's “Strong Medicine,” Kathleen Rooney’s “Wit of the Staircase,” and an essay by our regular poetry reviewer Floyd Collins, who assesses Philip Schultz's latest book, Failure.

 

Posted April 1, 2008

  

Prairie Schooner Spring 2008 weights to the poets with Peggy Shutmaker, Jon Bensko, Todd Boss, C.B. Burgess, Ander Monson, Judith Slater, Christina Hutchens, and Brent Fisk. Stories include authors Paula W. Peterson, Colette Sartor, Marc Fitten, and Chris Gavaler. Light on the reviews, but include Maxine Kumin, Tess Gallagher, and David Foster Wallace. North Dakota Quarterly (v74n3) features works by Douglas Wisxom, H.R. Stoneback, Fred Arroyo, Wendy Mnookin, Natalie, Jolee Josephs, Fu-jen Chen, and Trudy Seagraves as well as numerous reviews of works by Updike, Robert Root, Kim Stafford, and Wangari Maathai, among several more. Volume 20 Number 1, Spring 2008 marks Thema’s 20th Anniversary: 1988-2008. This issues theme: Everybody Quit, with poetry and prose in which this premise is an integral part of the work. Editor/Publisher Jonathan K. Price calls Iodine Poetry Journal “this little magazine” only because of the pages, but not at all because of its impact. Tirelessly reading through growing submissions, Iodine still finds the cream of the crop – this issue (Spring/Summer 2008) over 50 poets hit the pages, including Brad Masfield, Shari O’Brien, Marisa Rosenfeld, Rick Campbell and Jackie Bartley. Caveat Lector takes an odd shelf space, with its 4¼x11” format, but fits its contents – poetry and prose – nicely in the margins: Ho Lin, Robert Ferrante, Doug Ramspeck and Carol Hamilton, among others. Online, CL makes a new space for itself, including full content of the publication as well as multimedia add-ons. Colorado Review (Spring 2008) is graced with many “new and new-to-these-pages writers: Leslie Johnson, Dan Thrapp, Edward Porter, Adrianne Harun and Peter Selgin. Donald Revell, poetry editor, comments that the poetry is “of pause, of indrawn breath and prayerful anxiety”: Amelia Klein, Katherine Factor, and Brenda Hillman among the contributors. “A journal of humanity and human experience,” Bellevue Literary Review features the 2008 BLR Prize Winners in addition to an “unusually large number of stories and essays from children’s perspectives. These writings give us a sense of illness, loss, and sexuality through youthful eyes.” And new to this issue, BLR book reviews!

 

Posted March 23, 2008

 

American Book Review (March/April 2008) features “In Focus: Jass & Lit” with a double feature celebrating National Poetry Month. Included are Christina Milletti on Sara Greenslit, J.D. Smith on Dagoberto Gilb, Joyelle McSweeney on Selah Saterstrom, Kostas Myrsiades on Titos Patrikios and Arias-Misson on the Venice Biennale. A personal favorite of mine, Open Minds Quarterly is “Your psychosocial literary journal.” This issue (Winter 2008) features Steven Lappen’s essay on recovery, Cailean Darkwater’s essay on “the senseless and the ignorant,” and “Life as a Long-Term Schizophrenic” by Mark Ellerby, along with load of poetry and fiction. The Christian quarterly of expression, relief (Volume 2 Issue 1) with “an angelic boxer, a severed hand, and a wheeled cross” includes Mario Susko, Helen W. Mallon, Linda MacKillop, David Borofka, Rick Mullin, Alison Smythe, J. Stephen Rhodes, and more. Don’t let the newsprint format fool you The Threepenny Review is a heavyweight. Only to name a few, the Spring 2008 issue offers “A Symposium on Editing” with Frederick Wismena, Walter Murch, Christopher Ricks, Zachary Leader, poetry by Frank Bidart, Henry Cole and Louise Gluck, fiction by Wendell Berry, and prints by Edward Hopper. The Laurel Review biannual winter ’08 issue is cover to cover poetry and prose from 50 contributors: Sarah Vap, G.C. Waldrep, Patrick Madden, Jennifer Grotz, Beckian Fritz Goldberg – can’t name enough. Definitely poetry heavy, with the inclusion of a Poetry Portfolio, selected by Contributing Editor Martha Rhodes. Published by Phi Beta Kapp, American Scholar transverses the border of literature and critical political thought. The Spring 2008 issues features “Global Burning: What we can do about a new ages of megafires,” by Stephen J. Pyne; “Frederick Douglass Forgives: Honoring the emotions that lead to liberal principles” by Nick Bromell; “Reading Scientifically” by Brian Boyd; and other essays contributed by Allan Gurganus and Janna Malamud Smith, fiction, poetry, and art. In its second year, from Pacific University in Oregon, Silk Road is an annual “journal of writings on place.” This issue is deep into poetry, but also includes nonfiction (2), fiction (1), an interview with John Remember, and color and B&W photography in a glossy center section. From Eastern Kentucky University, the 2007 annual edition of The Chaffin Journal is packed with works from 59 authors, alas only one from each. Poetry heavy, seven works are fiction, but the collection represents new as well as known voices: Simon Perchik, James Doyle, Sharon Doyle, Charlotte Innes, Ken Meisel, Julie Moore. Issue 53 of Whiskey Island Magazine features 2007 first place contest winners in poetry, Michael Colonnese, and fiction, Karen Kotrba, among others, as well as art/photography. Published by Cleveland State University. The simple elegance of Yale Review, April 2008, houses feature writers Peter Demetz, Paula Fox, fiction by Tess Wheelwright, poetry by Grover Amen Louise Gluck, Richard Kenney, Emily Moore, Car Phillips, Franz Werfel, and a handful of reviews.

 

Posted March 15, 2008

 

Beautiful Hayden’s Ferry Review 41 (Fall/Winter 2007-08) features loads of poetry, including Jericho Brown, Karen Kevorkian, and Arra Lynn Ross, fiction by Sarah Berkensmeyer and Phillip Gardner, and several side-by-side (the best kind) translation pieces. Art is generously afforded both a color section and B&W throughout, and Craig Blais is named “AWP Intro Award” winner for his poem “About Crows.” Focusing on “Faith in Literature in Art,” Ruminate explores the theme of Addiction with the fiction of Linda McCullough Moore, an essay by Christopher J. Gaumer, poetry by Jeffry Davis, and art by Deanne Moulten.  The writing is on the page when it comes to Cave Wall, whose poems and art in this issue "exemplify the blessings and trials of diversity." Michale Gaspeny, Gail Peck, Bill Blackley, William Greenway and Tracy Smith are here, just to name a few. Published by Southeastern Louisiana University, Louisiana Literature goes way poetry heavy with 30 poets, 2 fiction authors, and 1 reviewer. Interestingly enough, in the list of contributors, there is a serious lack of “publication listing” –  teachers, writers, editors, “lives in,” and even one "search-and-rescue dog handler" fill this issue. (Word is that LL will now be going on a one-year hiatus.) Say it, spell it – GUD – I’ll go with the full name, Greatest Uncommon Denominator (Issue 2 - Spring 2008) is fiction, art and poetry. Find inside Jeff Somers, Samantha Henderson, Hugh Fox, Mike Capp, Tina Connolly and newel anderson, among many others. The annual PMS, or break it down to Poem Memoir Story (number eight, 2008), with guest editor Honorée Fanonne Jeffers features an interview with Natasha Trethewey, poetry by Lucille Clifton, Patricia Spears Jones, Tara Betts, Nikki Giovanni, and Edwidge Danticat, memoir by Danticat again and others, and story by Ada Udechukwu, Jeffers, Jacinda Townsend and more. American Literary Review (Fall 2007) balances its pages with some big guns in fiction, poetry, and nonfiction, like Tom Chandler, Jeffrey Levine, Khaled Mattawa, Daneen Wardrop, and - I can't name them all! Filling a literary void, The Long Story (number 26) continues on with contributions included from Courtney Walsh, Marsha Lee Berkman, Darrin Doyle, Ben Brooks. Not only that, but they do publish poetry – from Jared Carter, Laurel Speer and Sonja Skarstedt. All the same, poetry takes the back seat in this ride in terms of numbers (page and author).

 

 

Posted March 8, 2008

 

The Literary Review: An International Journal of Contemporary Writing (Winter 2008) editor Walter Cummins claims "No authors were violated in the creation of this issue." Good thing for our friends Laura van den Berg and Gerry LaFemina. Includes an interview with Chris Arthur. Big Muddy: A Journal of the Mississippi River Valley (Volume 7.2) features the 2007 Mighty River and Wilda Hearne Fiction Contest Winners Pat Landreth Keller and Lauren Savit. The bimonthly Poetry Foundation Poetry Magazine features Terrance Hayes, Ange Mlinko. and H. L. Hix and letters to the editor that comment on previous issues. The Fall 2007 issue of Iron Horse Literary Review was the last of the "old"  biannual format - but don't miss its interview with Alan Shapiro and "discovered voice" of Luke Rolfes. Iron Horse now begins publishing six slim chapbooks a year, the first is the Valentine Issue 2008. The phoenix American Short Fiction celebrates its 40th issue with a reunion of former contributing authors: Kate Braverman, Dagoberto Gilb, Michael Guista, Don Lee, and Joyce Carol Oates. Some are included in "A Retrospective - Former contributors speak for themselves about their memories, their work, and where their work has led them" since publication in ASF. Greenprints "The Weeder's Digest" (Spring 2008) looks at real rose fanatics, love & butterflies, and spouse spats. Contemporary Verse 2: The Canadian Journal of Poetry and Critical Writing touts the theme Poetry as Mirror: Reflections on the Body. Interviews with Jim Nason and Jan Conn and a "marvelous essay" by Tanis MacDonald bring some reprieve from the cold Canadian winter. Spencer Reece graces the cover of The American Poetry Review for March/April 2008, and is joined inside by the likes of Joyelle McSweeney, Kazim Ali, Grace Paley, Thomas Lux, Reb Livingston, Clayton Eshleman and Kevin Prufer. Keyhole has hit issue two (Winter 2008) with a mix of well-knowns like Eric Spitznagel, Michael Kimball, Myfawnwy Collins, and Jason Cook with some newbies. Slim, but pow-packed. A Magazine of Personal Expression, The Rambler (Mar/Apr 2008) mixes it up with short fiction, poetry, photos, personal stories and an interview with cartoonist Tom Batiuk (Funky Winkerbean). Just in time for the upcoming sports void, Issue 59 of Oxford American is the Sports Issue, with Kane Webb on horseracing, and a poem by John Updike on baseball. New fiction by Mark Edmundson, Mary Miller and M.O. Walsh and "Sports in the South" by various writers is also included. George Singleton's Speaking on Writing will no doubt speak to many with his "How to Write Stories...And lose weight, clean up the environment, and make a million dollars."

 

 

Online Lit Mags

 

Posted March 23, 2008

 

Boxcar #13 features poetry by Jeffrey Alfier, J. Mae Barizo, Margaret Bashaar, Steven Brown, Kit Frick, Christina Kallery, Dana Guthrie Martin, Matthew Olzmann, Julie Marie Wade, Joe Wilkins. Photography by An Xiao. Conversation Between Ivy Alvarez & Lee Herrick - Part 2, and an interview with F. Daniel Rzicznek. For paying subscribers only, the March issue of The Vocabula Review is for English language lovers, with Edwin Battistella (“The Folk Art of Error”), Will Hamlin (“Academic Diction: An Avoidable Poverty”), Richard Lederer, Susan Elkin, and more. Prick of the Spindle Volume 2.1 includes an interview with Jennifer Barber of Salamander, poetry by Jamie Jones, John Anderson, Mg Roberts, fiction by CS Eric, Dan Lopez, Jessie Aufiery, nonfiction by Michael Kerr, Jennifer Ann Janisch and Will George, drama by Jordan Sanderson, and much more.

 

 

Alternative Magazines

 

Posted April 12, 2008

 

The April 2008 issue of Humor Times monthly marks 17 years of being "on the scene to help balance out the gloom and doom with hilarious political humor, including the finest in editorial cartoons, humor columns and even 'fake news' better than Fox's!" This month's cover features Mikee Keefe's disco-funk dancer and the headline: "Don't Need No Jive Inflation!"

 

Other Alternative Magazines Received: 

 

Z Magazine (April 2008)

Free Inquiry (April/May 2008)

RFD (Spring 2008)

Alternatives (Jan-Mar 2008)

Voices from the Earth (Spring 2008)

Our Times (February/March 2008)

Art Doll Quarterly (Spring 2008)

Somerset Digital Studio (Volume 1, 2008)

Artful Blogging (2007)

Science and Society (April 2008) 

LILIPOH (Spring 2008)

Kyoto Journal (69)