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Magazine Stand :: The Main Street Rag – Summer 2023

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The Summer 2023 print issue of The Main Street Rag is available for purchase and opens with “Abandoned Places,” an interview with photographer Lynn Black, whose work is featured on the cover. The issue also includes prose works by Frank X. Christmas, Jim Ray Daniels, Ed Davis, Dean Z. Douthat, Barbara Eckroad, Andy Fogle, and Robert Sachs, and poetry by James Breeden, Les Brown, Raymond Byrnes, Steve Cambron, Terri Brown-Davidson, Robert Cooperman, Douglas K. Currier, RC deWinter, Susan Donnelly, Jeffrey Dreiblatt, David Galloway, Alan Haider, Jay Klokker, Cordelia Hanemann, Zebulon Huset, Judith Janoo, Gary Lark, David Lawton, Mark Madigan, Gary Mesick, Nancy Carol Moody, Mary Hills Kuck, Madeleine Cohen Oakley, Brian J. Pilling, Deb Pfeiffer, Matthew J. Spireng, Timothy Robbins, T. Parker Sanborn, John J. Ronan, Richard Ryal, Landa wo, Neil Shepard, Kashiana Singh, Theodore Turner, Tom Wayman, Eric Weil, and Marie Gray Wise as well as several book reviews.

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Magazine Stand :: Cholla Needles – 80

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Hailing from Cholla Needles Arts & Literary Library in Joshua Tree, California, Cholla Needles is a monthly print literary magazine publishing both established and emerging writers and artists whose distinctive voices and perspectives draw readers in to enjoy experiencing art, photography, and poetry. The newest issue (80) features beautifully mesmerizing cover artwork by Douglas A. Blanc welcoming readers into the issue filled with contributions from Douglas A. Blanc, Rose Baldwin, Brian Harman, Bruno Talerico, Yuan Changming, Duane Anderson, James Marvelle, Roger G. Singer, Terry Firkins, Todd Shimoda, and Jonathan Ferrini.

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Lit Mag Covers :: Picks of the Week – August 7, 2023

Lit Mag Covers: Picks of the Week recognizes cover art and designs for literary magazines, whether in print or online. These are chosen solely at the discretion of the Editor. Enjoy!

Image Summer 2023 cover image

Image Summer 2023 cover features work by British artist Jake Lever, who installs his gilded “soul boats” in ancient churches. More of his work can be seen inside the publication as well as on Image‘s website.

The Georgia Review Summer 2023 issue cover image

The front and back cover of the Summer 2023 issue of The Georgia Review features detail from plumb and fathom (2022) by Las Hermana Iglesias, whose work is also featured in this issue.

The Massachusetts Review Summer 2023 cover image

The cover image of the Summer 2023 issue of The Massachusetts Review features this untitled detail photograph of James Baldwin “in and around Istanbul, Turkey, c. 1968, part of the exhibit God Made My Face: A Collective Portrait of James Baldwin curated by Hilton Als at the Mead Art Museum – selections of which are featured inside this issue as well.

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Magazine Stand :: Colorado Review – Summer 2023

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In the Summer 2023 issue of Colorado Review, readers encounter people watching and waiting, anticipating and missing signs of one kind or another, move uneasily through this issue. As when the narrator of Kelly Luce’s “The Ugliest Girl at Marcy’s Wedding Pavilion” says, “I liked scanning the sky, looking for signals. Even when nothing happened, there was still that heartbeat. It was a space—it was space—where I could process what was happening in my life.” And in Adam O’Fallon Price’s “The Famous Actress,” a man tries to recapture a time of possibility, of potential, as he flounders in a dream gig he’s unqualified for, the nearby ocean calling to “some deep, uneasy place in himself,” confirming his anxiety. After her baby is stillborn, a young woman in Dyanne Stempel’s “Crashing Shiva” attempts to process her grief by attending the shivas of strangers, looking for cues, hoping “to try on all the random pain of the room.” And in Analía Villagra’s “Need Her Badly,” two next-door neighbors communicate in a passive-aggressive code—thumps on the apartment wall, knocks, taps—to reach out in a strangely antagonistic friendship. “Wunderkammer,” Lesley Jenike’s lyric essay, contemplates our relationship with museums, the ways they speak to us, tell us who we are. Absent much information about her grandfather, Jo-Anne Berelowitz engages in the practice of midrash to create the narratives that give him a life in her essay “Looking for Joseph.” And in “Mirage,” Susanna Sonnenberg recounts the missed, and crossed, signals in her first marriage, the result of having “unconsciously agreed to Not Know things.”

Magazine Stand :: The Twin Bill – Issue Twelve

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The baseball-themed literary journal The Twin Bill celebrates the Major League Baseball All-Star Game with the release of Issue Twelve. The poems and fiction included in The Twin Bill cover an array of subjects that celebrate the rich history of baseball, including topics that recognize the sport’s vibrant present and its complex and captivating past. Issue Twelve readers can enjoy writing and artwork from Jack Albert, Frank J. Albert, Susie Aybar, Jeff Brain, James Callan, Jason David Cordova, Darel La Prade, Kenny Likis, Elliot Lin, Tommy McAree, Lawrence Miles, Mark Mosley, Edwin Romond, James Scruton, AJ Speier-Wallace, and Sam Williams. The Twin Bill welcomes writers of all levels and experience and publishes based on the MLB schedule: Opening Day, the All-Star Game, the World Series, and Jackie Robinson’s birthday.

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New Lit on the Block :: Twin Bird Review

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Seeing double can be a good thing, as Twin Bird Review can attest. This new open-access online biannual publishes poetry, creative nonfiction, art, comics, and graphic narratives. The name comes from legend, says Editor Amanda K Horn. “Sailors used to get a tattoo of a swallow after the first 5,000 nautical miles traveled, and then another after 10,000 – barn swallows to represent birds’ ability to travel very far abroad and yet still return home. These ‘twin birds’ can also be seen in the human imagination, through which we’re able to explore this world and others, ourselves, the past and the future, all without leaving home.”

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Magazine Stand :: Redactions Poetry & Poetics – Issue 27

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Redactions Poetry & Poetics Issue 27 is “The Sitcom Issue” and has poems revolving around sitcoms, including M*A*S*H, Gilligan’s Island, Seinfeld, Hogan’s Heroes, Night Court, Leave It to Beaver, My Little Margie, The Facts of Life, Three’s Company, The Brady Bunch, The Simpsons, and more, as well as an essay about M*A*S*H. This is in addition to the regular content of poetry and poetics, including Kelli Russell Agodon’s interview with Jeannine Hall Gailey about her recently released book from BOA Editions, Flare, Corona.

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Magazine Stand :: Blue Collar Review – Spring 2023

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Blue Collar Review: Journal of Progressive Working Class Literature Spring 2023 has much to offer readers looking for both solace and inspiration during these tumultuous times. The editors introduce poems by Lyle Estill, John Zedolik, and Ada Negri, as translated by Thomas Feeney, which “describe workplace injuries” as well as “poems of resistance to the workplace threats of harm and to the unlivable pay and limits placed by government assistance that impact our health, our lives beyond the workplace, and our chances of being injured on the job [. . . ] a poem by Cathy Porter reminds us many are forced to choose between food and medicines, [. . . ] and Mary Franke’s poem ‘May Day 2023’ informs us, child labor is back.” Blue Collar Review offers several sample poems on its website, including “The Current Political Scene” by Marge Piercy. Blue Collar Review is a quarterly journal of poetry and prose published by Partisan Press with the mission “to expand and promote a progressive working class vision of culture that inspires us and that moves us forward as a class.”

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Lit Mag Covers :: Picks of the Week – July 31, 2023

Lit Mag Covers: Picks of the Week recognizes cover art and designs for literary magazines, whether in print or online. These are chosen solely at the discretion of the Editor. Enjoy!

Black Warrior Review Spring/Summer 2023 cover image

Cover artist Aris Moore won my imagination with this Spring/Summer 2023 cover image for Black Warrior Review: “Her work explores contradictions of strength and vulnerability, and attraction and repulsion, to create beings that are simultaneously awkward and unbelievable, yet familiar.”

Fourteen Hills Issue 29 2023 cover image

From the SFSU Dept. of Creative Writing, Fourteen Hills Issue 29 (2023) features “Lost in the Grandeur” by Jewel Rodriguez.

Room Issue 46.2 cover art

Room issue 46.2 features their 2022 contest winners for short forms, fiction, poetry, CNF, and cover art. This seemingly whimsical work by semillites hernández velasco, Ghost No More, is from a poignant series of self-portraits exploring the artist’s demand for visibility while not being “ready to be fully seen.”

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Magazine Stand :: Club Plum – 4.3

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In Volume 4, Issue 3 of Club Plum, unexpected small worlds light up before us. Maybe the light stings in the Whiskey a Go Go or throbs from the freight train up in the hills. Maybe it reflects off your wet paddleboard or dazzles from your Windex-blue gemstone on your finger. Maybe it nips our geese-girl ankles as we run in the garden or whistles in the ears of the university men who won’t let us speak. Or maybe the light shines from the eyes of a man who was once a little girl and who lays her to sleep forever with love, keeping her safe and remembered. Discover these and more in creative nonfiction by Sloane Gray and Amanda Seney, flash nonfiction by Heather Vaughan, flash fiction by Lisa Piazza, prose poetry by Amy DeBellis, Phoebe Houser, CiCi Logan, Iris Rosenberg, and art by Margaret Karmazin and Steven Ostrowski.

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Magazine Stand :: Sky Island Journal – Summer 2023

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Sky Island Journal’s stunning 25th issue features poetry, flash fiction, and creative nonfiction from contributors around the globe. Accomplished, well-established authors are published—side by side—with fresh, emerging voices. Readers are provided with a powerful, focused literary experience that transports them: one that challenges them intellectually and moves them emotionally. Always free to access, and always free from advertising, discover what over 125,000 readers in 145 countries and over 750 contributors already know; the finest new writing can be found where the desert meets the mountains.

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Magazine Stand :: South 85 – Spring/Summer 2023

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The Spring/Summer 2023 issue of South 85, the Converse College Low-Res MFA Program, features fiction, nonfiction, poetry, reviews, and art by new and established writers and artists. Readers can click over to find fresh fiction by Matt Izzi, Patrick Strickland, Christie Marra, Mike Herndon, Mark Brazaiti; creative nonfiction by Linda Briskin, Alice Lowe, Honey Rand, Harris Walker; and poetry by Dana Tenille Weekes, David Galloway, Susan Michele Coronel, Michelle Holland, Patrick Wilcox, Ellen Roberts Young, Nadine Ellsworth-Moran, Greg Nelson, Ellen Roberts Young, Ann Malaspina, Kevin Pilkington, Christina Baumis, Gordon W. Mennenga. “The Dollmaker: Why You Should Have Read This Book Long Before Now” is an essay by Jody Hobbs Hesler and the issue features photography by Linda Briskin.

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Lit Mag Review :: Ecotone – Spring/Summer 2023

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The Spring/Summer 2023 issue of Ecotone literary magazine includes four graphic literature pieces that drew me into the publication. Focusing on “Reminaging Place,” Ecotone’s mission is “to publish and promote the best place-based work being written today.” This includes graphic literature curated by invitation, with this issue offering four distinct works. The first is actually a tribute piece by Editor David Gessner for the feature Out of Place. “The Dead Writers’ Society: One Day I Hope to Join” is humorous, heartfelt, and historically informative using hand-drawn images and text as well as photos and photocopied ephemera. It is available to read on the Ecotone website. The three content pieces are offered in a full-color portfolio with an intro by each artist.

Image from "Network of Want" by Angie Kang

“Network of Want” by Angie Kang is hands-down my favorite piece, mainly because it explores desire paths – those pathways made by people and animals following their desired route. Kang uses a limited palate of blue-greens to violet for each scene with the pathway rendered in hot pink. She examines the myriad mindsets and biologies driving these pathways, to take shortcuts, to avoid, to be nearer, and to survive. Her work is a desire path in itself, as I find myself returning to it again and again to meditate on the shared meanings a simple worn path can offer. The intro to this work is available to read on the Ecotone website, but the work can only be viewed with a subscription.

Image from "Whale Fall" by Mita Mahato

“Whale Fall: Sequences 1, 2, 3” by Mita Mahato sources the term “whale fall” to create a series of images that reflect a system of metamorphizing by combining grids, letterforms, and colors. Whale fall, Mahato writes, “is “the ecosystem that emerges when a whale carcass falls to the ocean floor” and describes how “enmeshed” this phenomenon is with both marine and terrestrial systems of existence. My appreciation for Mahato’s work increased exponentially after seeing her process, which she shares in several videos and images on her Instagram page @mita_mahato. There is an intense amount of cutting out the grid and letters with an Exacto knife that cannot be fully captured in the print images, and that factors into the interpretation as well. Mahato’s intro and work are available to read on the Ecotone website.

Image from "Becoming Water" by S. J. Ghaus

“Becoming Water” by S. J. Ghaus is a hauntingly dreamy sequence exploring their sense of identity through self-naming. Ghaus opens the intro, “Four years ago, I picked up a blue colored pencil on New Year’s Eve and began to draw. I’ve been drawing and writing in that specific shade of blue ever since, and I don’t know when I’ll stop.” Coincidentally, this piece is about water, being in water, and identifying as water. Its compelling strength is that singular color and the depth and complexity Ghaus can create with this self-imposed limitation. This work is also available to read on the Ecotone website.

Reviewer bio: Denise Hill is Editor of NewPages.com and reviews material based on her own personal interests.

Magazine Stand :: Split Rock Review – Issue 20

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The Spring 2023 online issue of Split Rock Review features poetry by Joy Arbor, Nisha Atalie, Kellam Ayres, Rebecca Brock, Angelina Oberdan Brooks, Bethany Cutkomp, Scott Davidson, Barbara Westwood Diehl, Monica Joy Fara, Daryl Farmer, Gail Hosking, Christine Jones, Brandon Kilbourne, Jennifer Loyd, Marjorie Maddox & Karen Elias, Monica Mankin, Nathan Manley, Kathleen Mctigue, Megan Moriarty, Nick Powell, Barbara Rockman, Patricia Rockwood, Erika Saunders, Heidi Seaborn, Nancy Squires, Gary Thomas, and Maggie Yang. There is also a comic by Nathan Holic; creative nonfiction by Rebecca Lee Clay, Emily Ford, Dana J. Graef, and Marin Smith; and art/photography by Harry Bauld, David A. Goodrum, Shara K. Johnson, Susan Soloman, and Luke Tan.

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New Lit on the Block :: The Howl

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An homage to Allen Ginsberg, The Howl is a new online venue for young creators (grades 9-12), fittingly borrowing for their tagline as well, “the best minds of your generation.” As the editors explain, “Much as Ginsberg’s poem details the complex lives of others, we amplify the content that whirls out of the unique storms that young people brave.” An open-access online journal for readers of all ages, The Howl publishes on a rolling basis and accepts poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, scripts, photography, traditional and digital art, music, videos, journalism/op-eds, and other genres ‘best minds’ want to explore.

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Magazine Stand :: Under the Gum Tree – Summer 2023

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Under the Gum Tree Summer 2023 issue opens with a Letter from the Editor titled “Unimaginable Resiliency” in which Janna Marlies Maron writes, “By the time you read this it will be nearly one year since I experienced a major relapse of MS in August 2022 that caused debilitating neuropathy throughout my body.” And further contemplates, “I continue to be committed to personal storytelling. If there is one thing I know for sure it’s that our stories always demonstrate an unimaginable resiliency—even what I’ve shared in this letter I never would have imagined that I’d be surviving, until I actually did.”

Contributor writers to this issue include Kristina Ryan Tate, Ali Saperstein, Kathryn Leehane, Suzanne Lewis, Tawnya Gibson, and Alex Noelke. Artwork from Ryan Taylor and Seth Pitt are also featured in this issue.

Under the Gum Tree is available for digital or print copy purchase.

Magazine Stand :: The Awakenings Review – Spring 2023

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The Awakenings Review Spring 2023 issue is available for readers to enjoy online and features works by writers and artists with mental illness as well as from family members and friends of people with mental illness, though the contributions themselves need not focus on mental illness. The Awakenings Review occasionally dedicates issues to specific topics or features authors who live with a particular illness. The newest issue features poetry, essay, and short stories by W. Barrett Munn, Benjamin Shalva, William LaPage, Carol Lee Saffioti-Hughes, Jesse White, Lloyd Jacobs, Hugh Anderson, Linda Logan, Hope Andersen, Alexander Perez, Richard Risemberg, Adrian Harte, Katherine Szpekman, Valerie Wardh, Brooke Lathe, Anna Adami, Kristina Morgan, Vitoria Perez, Mary Anna Scenga Kruch, Meg LeDuc, Brian Daldorph, Elizabeth Brulé Farrell, Christine Andersen, C.M. Mattison, Alan Sugar, Kate Falvey, Dave Fekete, Kristine Laco, Timothy Lindner, Emily Kay MacGriff, and Jane Marston.

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Magazine Stand :: Vita Poetica Journal – Summer 2023

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Vita Poetica Journal Summer 2023 issue of the online quarterly publication of creative work explored through a spiritual lens opens with the editorial “Forces of Endurance” by Caroline Langston and includes poetry by Hannah Hinsch, Paul Hostovsky, Phillip Aijian, Jack Stewart, Charles Haddox, Rachelle Scott, Sydney Hegele, Ginnie Goulet Gavrin, Joseph Byrd, Lane Falcon; fiction byd Emily Ver Steeg, James Roderick Burns; visual arts by Lucy Bell, Sarah Walko, Willy Conley. Cover art by Lucy Bell.

Features include the interview, “Art as Attention, Presence, Prayer: Visual Artist Scott Aasman” in conversation with Emily Chambers Sharpe and two reviews: “Spirit in the Dark Brings Religious Influence to Light: A Review of the Smithsonian Exhibit on Religion in Black Music, Activism and Popular Culture” by Mary Amendolia Gardner, and “To See Beyond Walls: A Review of Illuminations: A Novel of Hildegard von Bingen” by Cheryl Sadowski.

There are also two Contemplative Practices, which include guided practices with recorded as well as written instructions: “A Blessing for Your Breath” by Rebekah Vickery and “Drawing Praise: A Creative Reflection on Psalm 148” by Samir Knego.

Magazine Stand :: Apple in the Dark – Summer 2023

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Apple in the Dark online magazine’s Summer 2023 issue features entries from their Flash Fiction Contest judged by Chelsea T. Hicks: Winner Ashley Beresch and Honorable Mentions Brenda Yates and Xochi Cartland, as well as works by finalists Cemile Guldal, Liz DeGregorio, MaxieJane Frazier, Brandi Ocasio, Robert Warf, and Juliana Warta. Readers can also enjoy new fiction by Clara Roberts, Brendan Todt, Bibi Berki, Jan Allen, Kayla Wiltfong, Tyler Barlass, Brooks C. Mendell, Kathy Sherwood, Lea Murray, and nonfiction by Adrianna Sanchez-Lopez, Lorraine Hanlon Comanor, Katharyn Howd Machan.

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Lit Mag Covers :: Picks of the Week – July 24, 2023

Lit Mag Covers: Picks of the Week recognizes cover art and designs for literary magazines, whether in print or online. These are chosen solely at the discretion of the Editor. Enjoy!

Catamaran Summer 2023 cover image

Catamaran is the kind of publication that makes me say “gorgeous” out loud just by looking at it. Equally well-designed inside and out, the Summer 2023 cover features Orchid with Limes, oil on panel, 2023, by Pamela Carroll.

Arkansas Review April 2023 cover image

I’m mesmerized by the layers of light and depth of color captured in Sierra Tribbet-Collins’ photograph Little Rock Evening Sky on the April 2023 cover of Arkansas Review: A Journal of Delta Studies.

Seneca Review Spring 2023 cover image

From Hobart and William Smith Colleges, the Spring 2023 covert art of Seneca Review doesn’t pop with color but it mesmerizes with geometrical design and depth – Signs I by Nicholas H. Ruth.

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Magazine Stand :: Allium – Summer 2023

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Allium Summer 2023 online issue upholds its mission to publish “work that is provocative, evocative, and bold,” and that represents a range and diversity of wrters’ voices. In this issue, readers can enjoy several watercolor panels from featured artist Leela Corman, whose graphic novel Victory Parade is set during World War II in Brooklyn, New York, and is due out in April 2024. Other works in this issue include fiction by Gemini Wahhaj, Greg Golley, Shelley Ettinger, Miranda Dennis, Max Smothers, Zoe Hanlon, Mary Lewis, Charli Andrews, Katy Gathright, Jeiyanni Hollings, Anthony Koranda, Jay Bigboy; nonfiction, Lauren Hohle, Carmelinda Escuder, Laura Hodes, Alexandra Ernst, Becky A. Benson, Daphne Reed, Ethan Dulaca, Jeffrey Ihlenfeldt, Justine Feron, Cristina Benavides; and poetry by Susan M. Schultz, Jan Beatty, Samantha Johnson, Sarah Iqbal, Denise Miller, Lorraine Carey, Izzy Dimiceli, Josette Akresh-Gonzales, Mole Hart, Moira Barrett, Gretchen Shull, Alorah Welti, Mara Tillman, Stephen Jackson, W.J. Lofton, Jake Bailey.

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Magazine Stand :: The 2River View – Summer 2023

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The Summer 2023 issue of The 2River View features new poems by Ed Coletti, Trent Busch, Rupert Fike, Matthew Freeman, Jeff Friedman, Jane Ellen Glasser, Jane McKinley, Brent Pallas, Judith Skillman, Tonya Suther, and Ellen June Wright as well as artwork by Christian Quintin. 2River quarterly publishes The 2River View, occasionally publishes individual authors in the 2River Chapbook Series, and blogs from Muddy Bank. All publications, online and printed, are free.

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New & Noted Lit & Alt Mags – July 2023

NewPages receives many wonderful literary magazine and alternative magazine titles each month to share with our readers. You can read more about some of these titles by clicking on the “New Mag Issues” under NewPages Blog or Mags. Find out more about many of these titles with our Guide to Literary Magazines and our Big List of Literary Magazines and Big List of Alternative Magazines. If you are a publication looking to be listed here or featured on our blog and social media, please contact us. You can also subscribe to our weekly newsletter to stay the most up-to-date on all things literary!

American Indian Past & Present, 50.2, 336
American Poetry Review, July/August 2023
As You Were, Spring 2023
Bending Genres, June 2023
Clinch, 3
Colorado Review, Summer 2023
Copihue Poetry, 2
Cutleaf, 3.12
Ecotone, Spring/Summer 2023
Eggplant Tears, 2
Epiphany, Summer 2023
Epoch, Fall 2023
Erato, 2
Event, 52.1

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New Lit on the Block :: Compass Rose Literary Journal

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“A compass rose,” explains Kelly Easton, founding Editor-in-Chief and Publisher of the online quarterly Compass Rose Literary Journal, “is the visual representation of the cardinal directions on a map, nautical chart, or compass. CRLJ was founded in late 2022 as a home for all voices that seek direction. As our mission intersects the literary, the philosophical, and the spiritual, the compass rose speaks to our shared journeys as fellow searchers. Our tagline is ‘bushwhacking through art’; we are unafraid of tackling the wild, the unknown, the messy, the difficult, to find our way. We are particularly welcoming to traditionally underrepresented voices, including BIPOC, LGBTQ+, and the neurodivergent, along with survivors of addiction.”

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Magazine Stand :: Kaleidoscope – Summer/Fall 2023

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A pioneer in its field, Kaleidoscope magazine publishes work that creatively explores the experience of disability. With the theme of “The Ties that Bind,” there are two prominent threads woven into Issue 87: family and deafness. Our featured essay, by Paul Hostovsky, contains elements of both. The featured artist is Kelly Simpson. Kaleidoscope hopes readers will enjoy the work by these contributors: Roly Andrews, Caitlin C. Baker, Shanan Ballam, Rebecca Brothers, Connie Buckmaster, S. Leigh Ann Cowan, Benjamin Decter, Ellis Elliott, Robert Douglas Friedman, N.J. Haus, Shelly Jones, Susan Whiting Kemp, Lori Lindstrom, Claire McMurray, Gloria g. Murray, Wendy Nikel, Rachel Papirmeister, Ujjvala Bagal Rahn, Melanie Reitzel, Kate Robinson, Seth Schindler, Nancy Scott, Margaret D. Stetz, Marya Summers and Lee Ann Wilson.

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Magazine Stand :: EVENT – 52.1

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EVENT 52.1 features the 2022 Non-Fiction Contest winners introduced by Judge Jenny Heijun Wills who selected Carolyn Chung’s “Black Pill” for 1st Place, Shane Neilson’s “Differential” for 2nd Place, and Eun Yoon’s “Real Magic” for 3rd Place. The issue also include new poetry by Shannon Barry, Michael Onsando, Laura Zacharin, Tanis MacDonald, Ruth E. Walker, Richard Brait, Deepa Rajagopalan, Joelle Barron, Nancy Huggett, Wendy Weseen, Rhona McAdam, Nancy Jo Cullen, Susan Glickman, Karin Hedetniemi, Y.S. Lee, Kagan Goh, Natasha Sanders-Kay, Louise Carson, Samantha Jones, Angela Long, Courtney Bates-Hardy, J Tate Barlow, fiction by Nadja Lubiw-Hazard, and illustrations by Nora Kelly. Cover art: “Yves Tanguay Skies” by Wade Comer.

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Magazine Stand :: As You Were – Volume 18

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As You Were: The Military Review, Volume 18 from Military Experience & the Arts contains over thirty works in literary fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, and artwork representative of the full spectrum of those impacted by military service – combat veterans, war orphans, or citizens who’ve felt the pull of history. They are all important additions to the literary and artistic canon surrounding military service. The issue features fiction by Jack R. Johnson, Phil Carson, Lucas Randolph, Ginger Dehlinger, Craig Gridelli, Ben Weise, Jillian Danback-McGhan, Erik Cederblom; nonfiction by Stanley Ross, William Gritzbaugh, Bettina Hindes, Larry Moss, Michael Dedrick, Richard Bramley, Art Foster, Erik E. Gize, Aliza Dube, Travis Harman; poetry by Carlin Corsino, Michelle DeRose, Christian Aldana, Katharina Breide, Nancy Austin, Michael Ball, Chad Corrigan, Deborah Baxter, Nelson Randall, Connie Kinsey, Cathleen Lundy Daniel, Patrick Dennis Riley, Andrew Lafleche, Michael Foran, Jerry L. Staub, Blake Ringer; and artwork by Wayne David Hubbard, Jennifer McKeen Rodrigues, Erik E. Gize, Dmitry Borshch.

Lit Mag Covers :: Picks of the Week – July 17, 2023

Lit Mag Covers: Picks of the Week recognizes cover art and designs for literary magazines, whether in print or online. These are chosen solely at the discretion of the Editor. Enjoy!

The Cincinnati Review Spring 2023 cover image

The Spring 2023 issue of The Cincinnati Review features cover art by Tina Williams Brewer, detail from I Come from a Long Line of Big Boned Black Women, 2002, fabric with mixed media. Inside includes a portfolio of her work as well as an artist statement. Writers might like to know about the special section of “Craft review of ‘unreasonably good’ writing.” Lots to enjoy in this issue.

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“Ways of Water” is the theme for issue 80 of Conjunctions biannual print journal, with hypnotizing cover art, Consortium, 2021, oil on linen by Elliott Green.

Southern Poetry Review 60.2 cover image

Founded in 1958, Southern Poetry Review is the “second oldest poetry journal in the region,” and remains fresh and relevant with each new issue. “Night Heron” (2021) is the cover image by filmmaker, writer, and photographer Kayla Bell.

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Magazine Stand :: About Place Journal – July 2023

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About Place Journal is published by the Black Earth Institute with each issue having a specific theme and edited by one of their BEI Fellows. The July 2023 issue is themed ‘On Rivers.’ Rivers are deep sources of connection and memory, holding very different meanings for different communities, and this issue seeks to honor the many types of relationships we have with rivers. Coeditors Teresa Dzieglewicz and Laura-Gray Street, with consulting editors Lucien Darjeun Meadows and Irene Vázquez, have curated a wide range of prose, poetry, visual art, and hybrid and multi-modal work, creating a collective view on rivers that is expansive and surprising.

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Magazine Stand :: The Keeping Room – July 2023

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The Keeping Room is an online magazine from Minerva Rising Press that publishes short stories, essays, free writing, and photo essays that touch on topics related to Women’s Wisdom, Lessons Learned, Self-care, Bodies, Relationships, and Community. Writers selected for publication will be paid $25 via PayPal. Recent works include “DOGGED” by Marty Kingsbury, “Jesus Is Delicious” by Monica J. Casper, “Lipstick” by Norma Schafer, “Dinner for Two Lovely People” by Tracy Harris, and “Glimpses” by Anne E. Beall.

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Magazine Stand :: Bomb – Summer 2023

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In BOMB’s Summer 2023 issue, painters Merlin James and Victoria Morton prepare for their upcoming joint show, poet Paisley Rekdal and visual artist Kenneth Tam visit the union of the transcontinental railroad, filmmaker Khalik Allah becomes one with the universe by a fireside, and Sophie Narrett talks to novelist Colm Tóibín about breaking free of societal expectations through embroidery. Plus, short stories from Vauhini Vara and Emily Nemens, an essay from poet Jenny Johnson on shadow bodies and the “oh so many ways to feel continuous,” poetry from Álvaro de Campos (a.k.a Fernando Pessoa), the conclusion of our Poetry of the Northern Triangle Diaspora series, and much more for readers to enjoy as summer courses on. Visit the BOMB website for information on subscriptions, single-issue orders, and to read select online content.

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New Lit on the Block :: The Palisades Review

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The Palisades Review was named in tribute to Founder and Editor-in-Chief Mea Cohen’s hometown, Palisades, New York. “Given that so much of what I have personally written takes place in this town, and that the magazine is all about featuring the personal experience, I felt the name was fitting!”

The Palisades Review offers a new short-form nonfiction quarterly that favors “compressed stories that reverberate and deepen our collective sense of self, stories that are charged within by the extraordinary capacity of language to create community from individuals.”

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Magazine Stand :: The Gay & Lesbian Review – July/August 2023

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The Gay & Lesbian Review Editor Richard Schneider opens the July-August 2023 issue by exploring the theme “Fantasy Lands”: “Today’s digital technologies have created possibilities for whole new worlds of immersion and experience, and with them a panoply of subcultures organized around these sites. Under the rubric of ‘Fantasy Lands,’ let us visit a few of these milieux with relevance to LGBT life and culture. This is somewhat new territory for this magazine, which is usually concerned with historical themes and the arts, and it’s worth noting that all four theme articles were written by first-time contributors.” Those articles include “We’re Heroes, We’re Queeros…” by Andrew White; “Romancing the Avatar” by Ashton Corsetti; “Fanfiction and the Omegaverse” by Hannah Matthews; and “Grindr Leaves the City Behind” by Aislin Neufeldt. Visit the G&LR website for more information about his issue as well as past issues and subscriptions.

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Magazine Stand :: Collateral – Spring 2023

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Collateral, which just released its 14th issue Spring 2023 online, publishes literary and visual art concerned with the impact of violent conflict and military service beyond the combat zone. There are many platforms sharing perspectives from the combat experience, and since 2016, Collateral has felt a need to amplify voices from the reverberations and lasting effects of conflict. These voices include stories from military families, environmentalists, active duty service members and veterans, civilians, immigrants, survivors, teachers, activists, journalists, and more. Collateral is run by women who are impacted by military service, either their own or from within their families, and the journal is completely online, free to read, and charges no fee to submit. They publish twice a year and often include work by long-established writers and artists alongside the newly published.

Contributors to the Spring 2023 issue include Lisa Wujnovich, Peter Schmitt, Andrew Shattuck McBride, Susanna Lang, Sonia Greenfield, C.C. Garrett, Paula Friedman, Ben Corvo, Layle Keane Chambers, Kevin Carollo, S.Y. Ball, Gale Acuff, Diane Lefer, Andria Williams, Jason Arment, Brecht De Poortere, Andy Flaherty, Mitzi Weems, Christina M. Wells, with a special feature on Eric J. García, an artist, cartoonist, veteran, and mentor from New Mexico.

Magazine Stand :: Cholla Needles – 79

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Issue 79 of Cholla Needles from Joshua Tree, California, features an exciting cover by young artist Lily M. Capra. The magical words within are by Bonnie Bostrom, Ron Riekki, Joy Gaines-Friedler, Christien Gholson, Miriam Sagan, David Chorlton, lalo kikiriki, J. David Rawn, James Marvelle, Johnny Kovatch, and Bobby Norman. Cholla Needles publishes monthly and therefore has rolling submission deadlines with editors who favor established and emerging writers with distinctive voices that communicate well with readers.

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Lit Mag Covers :: Picks of the Week – July 10, 2023

Lit Mag Covers: Picks of the Week recognizes cover art and designs for literary magazines, whether in print or online. These are chosen solely at the discretion of the Editor. Enjoy!

Your Impossible Voice Spring 2023 cover image

Your Impossible Voice nonprofit online lit mag takes its name from “Phrases” by Arthur Rimbaud, “Bind yourself to us with your impossible voice, your voice! sole soother of this vile despair.” Issue 28 (Spring 2023) cover art is “A Different Recollection Than Yours” by Edward Lee.

86 Logic Issue 9 cover image

86 Logic Issue 9 is a print publication with sleek graphic design for both text and art throughout. The cover was commissioned from artist Tom Liesegang, whose work and an interview are included inside as well.

Yolk Literary Magazine Summer 2023 cover image

Montreal-based Yolk Literary Magazine publishes Canadian artists in print as well as offers unique online content. The cover art for their Summer 2023 issue is by Sophie Edell and captures a quintessential image of summer.

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Magazine Stand :: The Writing Disorder – Summer 2023

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The Summer 2023 issue of The Writing Disorder offers readers all new fiction, poetry, nonfiction, and art to keep the season going. Featured contributors include fiction by Jennifer Blake, Rozanne Charbonneau, amy g dahla, Jonas David, Brad Gottschalk, Tina Dolly Ilangoven, Paul Perilli, Ellis Shuman; poetry by George Capaccio, Beatrice Feng, Sydney Fisher, Ron Riekki, Mykyta Ryzhykh, Scott Taylor; nonfiction by Sydney Hollins-Holloway, Eric Lee, Jonathan Kruyer, Steve Schecter, Rita Stevens; and art by Maja Lindberg.

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Magazine Stand :: Bending Genres – Issue 33

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Bending Genres online literary magazine’s submissions guidelines say they seek “thrilling, fanciful, oddball, unusual, stunning fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction pieces. Think Olympics on a case of Red Bull. Think October in April. Think Deep Thoughts by Jack Handey.” Issue 33 contributors who made the cut include Catherine O’Brien, Jess Richardson, Erin Mizrahi, Pat Foran, Kathryn de Lancellotti, Kristin Idaszak, Samuel Edwards, Shannon Frost Greenstein, Theodora Ziolkowski, Sam Rasnake, Glen Pourciau, James Miller, Anna Mantzaris, Lisa Alletson, David Yourdon, Brendan Constantine, Nwabuisi Kenneth, Andrew Cusick, Amy Marques, Megan Jones, Laurel Benjamin, MaxieJane Frazier, Stephen Delaney, George Ryan, Claudia Monpere, Sean Ennis, Catherine Buck, Michaela Mayer, Tyler Dillow, Karen Arnold, Reece Gritzmacher, and Lee Chilcote.

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Magazine Stand :: Salamander – 56

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Issue #56 of Salamander features more fiction and creative nonfiction than ever before, with short stories and flash fiction by: Leanne Ma, Alyson Mosquera Dutemple, John William McConnell, Benjamin Van Voorhis, William Woolfitt, and Lindsay Starck; and creative nonfiction by Martha K. Petersen, Zach Semel, Kathy Davis, and Joseph Dante. Salamander Issue 56 features poetry by Aaron Caycedo-Kimura, Chelsea Dingman, Suphil Lee Park, Jose Hernandez Diaz, Remi Recchia, Sihle Ntuli, Terena Elizabeth Bell, Ricardo Pau-Llosa, Brent Ameneyro, Martha Silano, Angie Macri, Adam J. Gellings, Sebastian Merrill, and many more poets, and reviews of work by Gabrielle Octavia Rucker, Jinwoo Chong, and Jose Antonio Villarán.

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Magazine Stand :: Paterson Literary Review – Number 51

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Paterson Literary Review Number 51 (2023 annual) includes work by Martin Espada, Joe Weil, Marge Piercy, Dante DiStefano, Kevin Carey, Tony Gloeggler, Bob Hicok, Vivien Shipley, Barbara Crooker, and January Gill O’Neil, as well as the winning poems from the Allen Ginsberg Award and many others in its 335 pages. Edited by Maria Mazziotti Gillan since 1979, Paterson Literary Review is “an anthology of writers both famous and unknown,” and The Poetry Center at Passaic County Community College has received international recognition for many of its activities, including the Paterson Literary Review.

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Magazine Stand :: Superpresent – Summer 2023

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Superpresent is a unique magazine in that it puts equal emphasis on the written word and visual arts, publishing work from a diverse set of talented writers, artists, and filmmakers. “When we chose the theme for this, our tenth issue,” explains Editor Kevin Clement, “we didn’t do an inquiry on the term ‘inquiries.’ Perhaps we should have. We didn’t expand on the theme as we sometimes do. Perhaps we should have. We did make the word plural, hoping for multiplicity. We weren’t disappointed. The writers and artists who contributed to this issue put forth questions across disciplines.” Providing some commentary on select pieces, Clements adds, “frequent contributor Duncan Forbes sent three poems that pose some fascinating questions and an essay on the brain which includes an analysis of one of our favorite Dickinson poems on the same subject. Her poem questions as it proposes. Our arts editor proposed questions to artist Aimée Beaubien whose work graces the cover. We know readers will enjoy her thoughtful responses which, like her art, have layers upon layers, questions upon questions.” Visit the Superpresent website today to read the entire issue.

Lit Mag Covers :: Picks of the Week – July 3, 2023

Lit Mag Covers: Picks of the Week recognizes cover art and designs for literary magazines, whether in print or online. These are chosen solely at the discretion of the Editor. Enjoy!

45th Parallel Summer 2023

Managed and edited by MFA student volunteers from the Oregon State University’s School of Writing, Literature, and Film in Corvallis, the Summer 2023 issue of 45th Parallel features the compelling collage work of belle dorcas.

Louisiana Literature 40.1 cover image

Birds are a favorite subject, especially when captured so candidly in their natural environment, as on this latest issue of Louisiana Literature. Photo credit: Norman German.

Zeniada Summer 2023 cover image

Zeniada online magazine publishes “poetry that TALKS HARD and art that CURLS the floorboards like smoke billowing from the mouth of a small god,” which includes this cover art Feast of Eden by Cheo Kojima.

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Magazine Stand :: The Shore – Issue 18

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The Shore Issue 18 brings the heat of distance and language and parenthood into haunting haze and burning light of the new season. It features scintillating poetry by Haley Winans, Sara Femenella, Dorsey Craft, Lisa Lewis, William Littlejohn-Oram, Laura Apol, Matthew Gustafson, Tracey Knapp, Sandra Fees, Roman Bobek, Jordan Walker, Emily A Benton, Jeff Newberry, Christopher McCormick, Katie Mora, Ashish Kumar Singh, Allison Thung, Fathia Quadri Eniola, Saba Husain, Matthew McDonald, Austin Segrest, Matthew Murrey, Amy DeBellis, Helena Mesa, Inkyoo Lee, Phoebe Gilmore, Alexander Duringer, Dan Schall, Jamie Tews, Peggy Hammond, Andrew Vogel, Laurel Benjamin, Annette Sisson, Phil Goldstein, Lisa Low, Barbara Daniels, Adam D Weeks, David Eileen Winn and Sarah B Cahalan. It also features art that interrogates ideas of space and distance by Andrew Spitzer.

Magazine Stand :: The Lake – July 2023

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Just in time for the heat (and smoke?) of summer reading, the July 2023 issue of The Lake online poetry journal is ready for reading. Contributors include Catherine Arra, Ace Boggess, L. J. Carber, Eva Eliav, George Franklyn, Ann Malaspina, Liz McPherson, Debarshi Mitra, Stephen Page, Michael Salcman, Claire Scott, Richard Slottow. Reviews of David Giannini’s Already Long Ago and Matt Mauch’s A Northern Spring. One Poem Reviews, a feature that offers readers a one-poem sample from a new collection, spotlights Pauline Rowe/A. J. Wilkinson. In addition, J. R. Solonche reviews David Giannini’s, Already Long Ago, and Charles Rammelkamp reviews Matt Mauch’s A Northern Spring. All free online!

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Magazine Stand :: Radar Poetry – Issue 36

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Radar Poetry is an electronic journal of poetry and artwork from established and emerging writers from around the globe. Radar Poetry is interested in the interplay between poetry and visual media with each issue pairing works of poetry and art selected by the editors. The newest issue feature poetry by Jacqueline Berger, Alecia Beymer, Luke Eldredge, Josh Exoo, Stephen Lackaye, Lisa Lewis, Carlos A. Pittella, Phoebe Reeves, Liz Robbins, Lindsay Rockwell, Molly Tenenbaum, and Theodora Ziolkowski, and artwork by David Boyle, Kiley Brockway, Adam Dahlstrom, Armando Jaramillo Garcia, and Jim Ross.

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Magazine Stand :: Glassworks – Spring 2023

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Issue 26 (Spring 2023) of Glassworks features artwork by E. O. Connors, Catherine Edgerton, Gerberg Garmann, and Carella Keil; fiction by Faith McNaughton and Kathryn Reese; nonfiction by Joanna Acevedo, Chelsea M. Carney, and Ted McLoof; and poetry by Devon Brock, Amber Lee Carpenter, Rachael Inciarte, Karina Jha, Sean Madden, Mary Makofske, Claire Hamner Matturro, Reese Menefee, Kathleen McGookey, Sam Moe, Judith H. Montgomery, Annette Sisson, and Jacob Stratman. Glassworks is a publication of Rowan University’s Master of Arts in Writing program and also publishes Flash Glass – a monthly of flash fiction, prose poetry, and micro-essays, and lookingglass – a space for contributors to share reflections on their work.

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Magazine Stand :: The Barcelona Review – Issue 107

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Started in 1997, The Barcelona Review is an online multi-lingual review of contemporary international fiction. The newest issue (107) includes their regular quiz feature, this time on “A.I. in Literature.” Readers can test their knowledge of cyberpunk – 21st-century AI that has appeared in literature and compete for an Amazon gift card. The issue also includes “Pandemonium” by Bandi, the pseudonym of an anonymous North Korean dissident, who managed to smuggle seven short stories into South Korea; “Sink Rate” by English writer David Frankel, which begins with a horrific event, then moves inward as the protagonist tries to absorb what has happened. Offering some humor is Diggory Dunn’s “Nosedive on Eagle’s Nest Ridge,” a dispute concerning an incident on the slopes with a deluded “defendant’” brashly attempting to argue his case, and from Scotland comes a debut story by Garry Vass, “The Pig Was Finally Dead,” recounting the time of year for slaughter. Jim Daniel’s personal essay “Drought” collects the random thoughts of an American as he pedals through the countryside of France. The Barcelona Review also includes some “Picks from Back Issues,” a nice way to catch something you might have missed, as well as a book review, this time Cinema Speculation by Quentin Tarantino, reviewed by editor Jill Adams, who notes, “I had the pleasure to see [Tarantino] speak in Barcelona last April where he was welcomed like a rock star.”

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Magazine Stand :: Plant-Human Quarterly – Issue 9

Plant Human Quaterly Issue 9

Following the rhythm of the planet, Plant-Human Quarterly publishes four issues each year: one on each solstice and equinox. Plant-Human Quarterly Issue 9 explores the myriad ways writers manifest their relationship to the botanical world, attempting to communicate across boundaries and possibly approach a plant’s-eye-view of the world. Poems and essays are paired with botanical images, merging verbal and visual mediums. In this issue, Candela Murillo’s artwork is paired with writing from Robert Bensen, Margaret Chula, Deborah Doolittle, Camille Dungy, Leonore Hildebrandt, Andrea Hollander, Susan Jefts, Kelly Madigan, Davis McCombs, Mark McKain, Bertha Rogers, Jean Ryan, Eleni Sikelianos, and Barry Wallenstein. Plant-Human Quarterly is produced in collaboration with the Otherwise Collective, based in Amsterdam, NL.

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Magazine Stand :: World Literature Today – July/August 2023

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For its July/August 2023 issue, World Literature Today’s editors took to the road to explore “The Bookstores of Middle America” and chose favorite destinations in nine states. Other highlights include Veronica Esposito’s new “Untranslatable” column, Andrew Lam’s moving homage to his mother, Shahd Alshammari’s favorite books on disability and illness, and a visit to literary Los Angeles with Ming Di and Dana Gioia. The book review section rounds up the best new books from around the world, while additional interviews, poetry, essays—and a recipe for peach galette—make the July issue your latest passport to great reading, whether in “flyover country” or some far-flung literary destination.

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Magazine Stand :: Good River Review – Issue 5

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Good River Review is the literary journal of the School of Creative and Professional Writing at Spalding University publishing two issues per year. Between issues, readers can enjoy book reviews, interviews, essays on the practice of writing, and other literary news on the publication’s website. Issue 5 features poetry and prose by Adeleke Adeyemi, makalani bandele, DeMisty Bellinger, Kris Bigalk, Bea Bolongaita, Terri Brown-Davidson, Ndidi Chiazor-Enenmor, Cindy Corpier, Tony Crunk, Debra Kang Dean,  Jane Donohue, Mitchell L. H. Douglas, Monic Ductan, Devin Kelly, Iris A. Law, Jeremy Paden, Claudia Putnam, Jack Ridl, Mervyn Seivwright, Jason Tandon, and Melanie Weldon-Soiset.

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