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- Issue Number Number 25
- Published Date Summer 2018
- Publication Cycle Semiannual
- Review by Mitchell Jarosz
Anyone searching for a traditional approach and literary collection will be comfortable and entertained by the Summer 2018 edition of Able Muse. This edition of artwork, poetry, essays, fiction, and interviews provides both entertainment and insight in what can best be complimented by its traditional approach and content. The literary works and the featured art theme encourage the reader to look further into the associated online poetry workshop Eratosphere.
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- Issue Number Volume 76 Number 2
- Published Date Spring 2018
- Publication Cycle Quarterly
- Review by Jenny Mark
The Antioch Review is a literary magazine produced in Ohio since 1941 and is one of the oldest literary magazines still published in America. It contains essays, fiction, and poetry from a variety of authors and has played a role in literary history, having included pieces produced by some of the most well-known writers, like Ralph Ellison and Sylvia Plath. The Spring 2018 issue of The Antioch Review sticks to the theme of “Love & Kisses, Lust & Wishes.” It’s an issue about love, about lust, about what we could want, and about what we never got to keep.
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- Issue Number Volume 23 Issue 1
- Published Date Spring/Summer 2018
- Publication Cycle Biannual
- Review by Denise Hill
The Aurorean is a powerhouse of poetry. Published biannually out of Farmington, Maine, the Spring/Summer 2018 issue is sixty-one pages packed with works by seventy poets. For this reason, I would never recommend anyone read this full volume in one sitting. Doing so would leave any reader in a state akin to post-marathon exhaustion. Instead, this slim journal should be carried along your daily journey as a companion to life, to refresh your perspective, renew your vision, and deepen the experience of your existence.
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- Issue Number Issue 17
- Published Date June 2018
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Quarterly
- Review by Katy Haas
Looking back, one of my first introductions to poetry (and enjoying it) was a small set of children’s books, one filled with poetry dedicated to dogs, and the other dedicated to cats. I read them constantly, paging through them until the covers began to curl backward from my incessant touching. I couldn’t help thinking of this set of books when I received the new issue announcement for Allegro Poetry Magazine in my inbox, pleased to see the issue is dedicated to cats. Unable to currently live with any felines myself, the poetry is a nice substitute for a warm cat on the lap.
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- Published Date Spring 2018
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Biannual
- Review by Katy Haas
The American Literary Review has been publishing well-crafted creative writing for nearly thirty years. In 2013, the journal published its final print issue and moved to an online format where it continues the tradition of providing exceptional writing to readers with an even more accessible format.
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- Issue Number Number 86
- Published Date 2017
- Publication Cycle Biannual
- Review by Cheryl Wollner
Celebrating its 45th year in publication, AGNI, published out of Boston University, takes its name from the Vedic god of fire, the guardian of humankind. AGNI’s fiction, nonfiction, and poetry are a fire in the darkness, illuminating the corners of reality we do not see.
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- Issue Number Issue 15
- Published Date December 2017
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Biannual
- Review by Katy Haas
With 2017 over and two weeks into the new year, it kind of feels like getting through last year was surviving something. Reading the December 2017 issue of The American Poetry Journal, I found myself drawn to poems that consider different types of survival.
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- Issue Number Number 23
- Published Date Summer 2017
- Publication Cycle Biannual
- Review by Mitchell Jarosz
Where to start. The fans of Able Muse look forward to each issue’s featured poet and featured artist, and the Summer 2017 issue does not disappoint. The issue notably holds the attention with distinct content that varies from what one usually finds in a multi-genre journal.
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- Issue Number Volume 12 Number 2
- Published Date Fall 2017
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Biannual
- Review by Katy Haas
Looking at the cover of the Fall 2017 issue of Apple Valley Review, I had the chills. A photo by Nicholas A. Tonelli of a town corner in winter, sun setting, and ice lining the road greets readers at the Apple Valley Review website, foreshadowing the Michigan winter waiting for me around the corner.
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- Issue Number Issue 2
- Published Date Spring 2017
- Publication Cycle Biannual
- Review by Valerie Wieland
The second issue of The Arkansas International contains an impressive range of eclectic writing. But what caught my eye first was the collection of six-panel comics excerpt from the Notes Mésopotamiennes by French comic book writer François Ayroles, translated by Edward Gauvin.
- Subtitle A Beast of a Literary Magazine
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- Published Date June 2017
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Monthly
- Review by Katy Haas
At the beginning of each month, Animal: A Beast of a Literary Magazine brings readers one piece each in the categories of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry, all with an animal theme. With only three pieces per issue, readers can fully enjoy each piece at their own pace, strengthening their appreciation for animal inspiration.
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- Issue Number Volume 33 Numbers 3 & 4
- Published Date Winter/Spring 2017
- Publication Cycle Biannual
- Review by Anne Graue
Regular readers of the Alaska Quarterly Review should already know that this journal rarely disappoints. This issue of the review meets the highest of expectations as it has set the bar in so many issues at an altitude that allows the inclusion of veteran writers as well as those writers only just setting out on their professional journeys. This issue contains works that may set the standards for contemporary literature even higher still.
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- Issue Number Issue 11
- Published Date December 2016
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Quarterly
- Review by Denise Hill
Travel. I can’t think of a lovelier thought as, here in the northeastern US, I look out the window to see snow blasting by with below-zero wind chills and FEMA storm warnings chirping through my phone. I can hunker down indoors, curl up with my iPod and a cup of hot tea, and travel the globe and the deepest inner reaches of emotion by reading Editor Sally Long’s selections in the December issue of Allegro.
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- Issue Number Volume 19 Issue 63
- Published Date Fall 2016
- Publication Cycle Biannual
- Review by Jenny Mark
As someone who truly enjoys reading short stories, American Short Fiction literary magazine provides a real treat. I could not put it down, too eager to read each new short story. This Fall 2016 issue celebrates 25 years and, as a commemoration, the front and back covers are covered with the names of every author that has been included in its 63 issues.
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- Issue Number Volume 74 Number 3
- Published Date Summer 2016
- Publication Cycle Quarterly
- Review by Tamara Miles
Let’s go back seventy-five years and meet ourselves again—because, as The Antioch Review has proven in its special anniversary edition, we did not hold the mirror closely enough back then, and we did not hear the message presented so clearly in the writings of people like Ralph Ellison, who laid before us in no uncertain terms our racial disparities and injustices, and in the poetry of that age. As Sidney Alexander explains in the poem “Prologue to Bolivar,” originally published in the autumn of 1944, we must “Roll back the dusty scroll, for no man lives / without his past: no man moves alone: / No man skates on time as if it were a film, but sees below him when the waters clear / the endless processionals of the dead.”
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- Issue Number Volume 21 Issue 1
- Published Date Spring/Summer 2016
- Publication Cycle Biannual
- Review by Katy Haas
Issues of The Aurorean give readers glimpses into the seasons, the Spring/Summer 2016 issue sporting a bold, bright cover photograph of magenta petals. The flyleaf is a light, complementary pink, bringing forth the fresh feelings of spring and new flowers.
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- Issue Number Issue 6
- Published Date 2015
- Publication Cycle Biannual
- Review by Kirsten McIlvenna
If you’re looking for something to read that departs from the literature written about white folk by white men, you need to pick up a copy of the latest issue of Apogee. Rife with culture and social commentary and a myriad of international authors both male and female, Apogee delivers a collection of fiction, poetry, nonfiction, and art that I simply did not want to end.
- Issue Number Volume 37 Number 3
- Published Date December 2006
- Publication Cycle Triannual
- Review by Donna Everhart
Peter McGehee’s “The Ballad of Hank McCaul” is a story whose setting begins in a hotel room, moves out to a pool hall, onto Claredon, a town an hour’s drive away from Little Rock, and then ends back in the hotel room. It begins with a problem that, by the end of the story, the narrator solves. Although it’s not as simple as all that, really, because the underlying conflict is deep and rooted and thick. The narrator, Sammy, having just visited the newly dug grave site of his lover, Hank, sums it up when he glimpses, as he is drinking beer, a sideways view of the Seventh Wheel’s clientele. “The whole world may change,” the story goes, “but the town you come from never will.”
- Issue Number Volume 62 Number 1
- Published Date Winter 2004
- Review by Jeannine Hall Gailey
Judith Hall, the influential poetry editor of this esteemed literary journal, should be congratulated for producing one of the best issues of “The Antioch Review” that I’ve read in a long time. This special all-poetry issue, subtitled “What to Read, What to Praise,” contains, contrary to what you might believe from the cover, more than just poetry.
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- Issue Number Volume 6 Issue 2
- Published Date Fall/Winter 2015
- Publication Cycle Biannual
- Review by Valerie Wieland
“(Re)Collecting the Vietnam War” is the theme of unrestrained poetry, prose, drama, and art in this special issue of The Asian American Literary Review. This hefty volume can be regarded as a history, much like survivor accounts of other wars. Its five sections are each prefaced by a curator, some offering more explanation than others to illuminate what follows. Contributors to this volume straightforwardly talk about the past, present and future, while not glossing over the conflicts in Southeast Asia four decades ago.
- Issue Number Volume 22 Numbers 3 & 4
- Published Date Fall/Winter 2005
- Publication Cycle Biannual
- Review by Anna Sidak
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- Issue Number Volume 20
- Published Date Winter 2015
- Publication Cycle Biannual
- Review by Valerie Wieland
- Issue Number Volume 37, Numbers 2-3
- Published Date Summer/Fall 2003
- Review by John Palen
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- Issue Number Issue 15
- Publication Cycle Biannual
- Review by Cheryl Wollner
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- Issue Number Issue 19
- Published Date 2015
- Publication Cycle Annual
- Review by Allyson Hoffman
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- Issue Number Number 77
- Published Date Summer 2015
- Publication Cycle Triannual
- Review by Valerie Wieland
- Issue Number Volume 44 Number 4
- Published Date July/August 2015
- Publication Cycle Bimonthly
- Review by Valerie Wieland
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- Issue Number Volume 9 Number 3
- Published Date Spring 2015
- Publication Cycle Quarterly
- Review by Melinda Ruth
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- Issue Number Volume 21 Issue 2
- Published Date Spring/Summer 2015
- Publication Cycle Biannual
- Review by Kayla Grose
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- Issue Number Volume 32 Numbers 1 & 2
- Published Date Spring & Summer 2015
- Publication Cycle Biannual
- Review by Robert Boucheron
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- Issue Number Issue 3
- Published Date December 2014
- Publication Cycle Biannual
- Review by Katy Haas
What initially drew me to The Austin Review was the delivery. A sucker for small-sized publications, the compact journal called out to me as soon as I saw it. Even putting biases aside, the beautiful cover art, “Iron Age” by John Mulvany, which features a serene night scene with a ghost lighting up the sky, would’ve been enough to draw me in.
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- Issue Number Number 179
- Published Date Autumn 2014
- Publication Cycle Quarterly
- Review by J. Thomas Minton
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- Issue Number Volume 72 Number 4
- Published Date Fall 2014
- Publication Cycle Quarterly
- Review by Melanie Tague
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- Issue Number Issue 2
- Published Date Spring/Summer 2014
- Publication Cycle Biannual
- Review by Laurie Jackson
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- Issue Number Volume 6
- Published Date Spring 2014
- Publication Cycle Annual
- Review by Amy J. E. MacKenzie
- Subtitle A Journal of Delta Studies
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- Issue Number Volume 45 Issue 2
- Published Date August 2014
- Publication Cycle Triannual
- Review by Elaine Fowler Palencia
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- Issue Number Volume 9 Number 1
- Published Date Spring 2014
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Biannual
- Review by Kirsten McIlvenna
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- Issue Number Number 79
- Published Date 2014
- Publication Cycle Biannual
- Review by Chip Livingston
- Issue Number Volume 63 Number 2
- Published Date Spring 2005
- Review by Anna Sidak
- Issue Number Volume 33 Number 1
- Published Date January/February 2004
- Review by JHG
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- Issue Number Issue 16
- Published Date Summer 2014
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Annual
- Review by Kirsten McIlvenna
Avatar Review, an online annual, “seeks to display the highest quality of writing,” as all do. And while I cannot claim that what is published in this issue is the cream of the crop, there is plenty worth consideration and worthy of merit, including poetry, prose, art, and reviews. Britt Melewski’s “On the Overnight” came with an audio recording of him reading his poem, which enhanced the feeling of the overall poem, especially his last few lines: “saying, ‘remember the absolute worst of times, / remember the fish, the fish, the fish.’”
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- Issue Number Volume 17 Issue 57
- Published Date Spring 2014
- Publication Cycle Quarterly
- Review by Justin Brouckaert
Though this issue of American Short Fiction isn’t overtly themed, Editors Rebecca Markovits and Adeena Reitberger note that they had already selected the stories when they realized “four of the five were about work, the daily grind or the vocation, the answer to what William Carlos Williams called ‘the typical American question’: What do you do?” This does indeed serve as a nice framework for the five pieces of short fiction that make up the issue, work by Tia Clark, Karl Taro Greenfeld, Antonya Nelson, Matthew Neill Null, and Rob Roensch.
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- Issue Number Volume 1
- Published Date January 2014
- Publication Cycle Biannual
- Review by Anne Graue
- Issue Number Issue 7
- Published Date Winter 2009
- Publication Cycle Biannual
- Review by Sima Rabinowitz
- Issue Number Number 68
- Published Date 2008
- Publication Cycle Biannual
- Review by Kenneth Nichols
- Issue Number Volume 14 Number 3
- Published Date August 2012
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Bimonthly
- Review by Kirsten McIlvenna
- Issue Number Volume 28 Numbers 3 & 4
- Published Date Fall & Winter 2011
- Publication Cycle Biannual
- Review by Julie J. Nichols
- Issue Number Issue 17
- Published Date Summer 2008
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Triannual
- Review by Micah Zevin
- Issue Number Issue 27
- Published Date 2008
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Quarterly
- Review by Micah Zevin
- Issue Number Volume 65 Number 1
- Published Date Winter 2007
- Publication Cycle Quarterly
- Review by Anna Sidak
- Issue Number Volume 64 Number 3
- Published Date Summer 2006
- Publication Cycle Quarterly
- Review by Jim Scott
- Issue Number Volume 31 Number 2
- Published Date Spring 2003
- Review by /faq/reviewer-bios
- Issue Number Number 58
- Published Date 2003
- Review by Jeannine Hall Gailey
- Issue Number Number 146
- Published Date Summer 2006
- Review by Sheheryar B. Sheikh
- Issue Number Number 159
- Published Date Fall 2009
- Publication Cycle Quarterly
- Review by Angela Lewis
- Issue Number Volume 62 Number 2
- Published Date Spring 2004
- Review by Sima Rabinowitz
- Issue Number Number 139
- Published Date Autumn 2004
- Review by Christopher Mote
- Issue Number Issue 13
- Published Date 2008
- Publication Cycle Annual
- Review by Sima Rabinowitz
- Issue Number Volume 4
- Published Date Spring 2012
- Publication Cycle Annual
- Review by Sarah Gorman
- Issue Number Issue 1
- Published Date 2011
- Publication Cycle Annual
- Review by Bethany Zohner
- Issue Number Volume 12 Issue 43
- Published Date Spring 2009
- Publication Cycle Quarterly
- Review by Kenneth Nichols
- Issue Number Volume 38 Number 3
- Published Date May/June 2009
- Publication Cycle Bimonthly
- Review by Rachel S. King
- Issue Number Volume 26 Numbers 1 & 2
- Published Date Spring & Summer 2009
- Publication Cycle Biannual
- Review by Sima Rabinowitz
- Issue Number Number 21
- Published Date 2010
- Publication Cycle Annual
- Review by Sima Rabinowitz
- Issue Number Number 13
- Published Date 2010
- Publication Cycle Biannual
- Review by Sima Rabinowitz
- Issue Number Number 6
- Published Date Spring 2007
- Publication Cycle Annual
- Review by Anne Wolfe
- Issue Number Number 11
- Published Date 2012
- Publication Cycle Annual
- Review by Sherra Wong
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- Issue Number Volume 70
- Published Date Winter 2013
- Publication Cycle Triannual
- Review by Karen Rigby
- Subtitle New European Writing
- Issue Number Number 18
- Published Date 2012
- Publication Cycle Biannual
- Review by Sarah Gorman
- Issue Number Volume 1 Number 1
- Published Date 2010
- Publication Cycle Annual
- Review by Sima Rabinowitz
- Subtitle Endurance
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- Issue Number Issue 7
- Published Date 2010
- Publication Cycle Biannual
- Review by Tanya Angell Allen
The “Endurance” issue of Annalemma should be abysmally depressing, as all of the stories and essays in it are sad. The great care put into its design, however, gives one answer to the editor’s question of “what gives a person forward momentum when every sign around them says give up.” Editor/publisher Chris Heavener says that “to endure means having a purpose.” His publication shows that one can find purpose though literature and art.
- Issue Number Volume 33
- Published Date 2003
- Review by Jeannine Hall Gailey
- Issue Number Issue 15
- Published Date Spring 2006
- Publication Cycle Biannual
- Review by Sima Rabinowitz
- Published Date 2005
- Publication Cycle Annual
- Review by Erin M. Bertram
truth(s) from a lens fitting their particular frame. Often, these truths relate in some way to current U.S. politics, as the issue's special section, "Wedding the World and the Word," asserts.
- Issue Number Volume 23
- Published Date 2005
- Publication Cycle Annual
- Review by Christopher Mote
Before they have the craft mastered, most undergraduate students high on talent have to settle for publishing their work in a magazine that never makes it off campus, if even outside the dorm hall. The Allegheny Review remains the lasting outlet committed to giving them the better opportunity for wide circulation. However much its selections may be arbitrary, however abundant the sloppy typos are, the magazine still packs potential. The students write about what they know: meditation on the seasons; failure to communicate in relationships; a moment of doubt while in church. "Attempting Vipassana" by Kristel Bastian is a standout, using the slightly-less-familiar theme of experimenting with Eastern meditation, but still impressive:
- Subtitle Circuses and Art Museums
- Issue Number Volume 61 Number 4
- Published Date Fall 2003
- Review by Terri Denton
- Issue Number Volume 3
- Published Date 2009
- Publication Cycle Quarterly
- Review by Sima Rabinowitz
- Issue Number Issue 14
- Published Date 2009
- Publication Cycle Annual
- Review by Sima Rabinowitz
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- Issue Number Issue 14
- Published Date 2005
- Publication Cycle Annual
- Review by /faq/reviewer-bios
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- Published Date 2005
- Publication Cycle Annual
- Review by /faq/reviewer-bios
- Issue Number Volume 68 Number 1
- Published Date Winter 2010
- Publication Cycle Quarterly
- Review by Sima Rabinowitz
- Issue Number Volume 38 Number 3
- Published Date Summer 2010
- Publication Cycle Quarterly
- Review by Renee Emerson
- Issue Number Volume 73 Number 2
- Published Date Spring 2004
- Review by Kathe Lison
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- Issue Number Number 59
- Published Date 2004
- Publication Cycle Biannual
- Review by Weston Cutter
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- Issue Number Issue 15
- Published Date April 2014
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Quarterly
- Review by Kirsten McIlvenna
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- Issue Number Volume 43 Number 2
- Published Date March/April 2014
- Publication Cycle Bimonthly
- Review by Michael Caylo-Baradi
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- Issue Number Volume 31 Numbers 1 & 2
- Published Date Spring & Summer 2014
- Publication Cycle Biannual
- Review by Brian McKenna
- Issue Number Volume 19 Number 1
- Published Date Spring 2008
- Publication Cycle Biannual
- Review by Sima Rabinowitz
- Issue Number Issue 29
- Published Date Summer 2012
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Triannual
- Review by Kirsten McIlvenna
- Issue Number Volume 1
- Published Date Summer 2011
- Publication Cycle Biannual
- Review by Sean Stewart
- Issue Number Volume 8 Number 1
- Published Date Summer 2007
- Publication Cycle Quarterly
- Review by Mary Winsor
- Issue Number Number 150
- Published Date Summer 2007
- Publication Cycle Quarterly
- Review by Kenneth Nichols
- Issue Number Issue 11
- Published Date Winter 2011
- Publication Cycle Biannual
- Review by Sima Rabinowitz
- Issue Number Number 61
- Published Date 2011
- Publication Cycle Biannual
- Review by John Palen
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- Issue Number Recent Posts
- Published Date January and April, 2013
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Updated Regularly
- Review by Kirsten McIlvenna
- Published Date Winter 2012-2013
- Publication Cycle Biannual
- Review by David R. Matteri
- Issue Number Volume 2 Issue 1
- Published Date 2011
- Publication Cycle Annual
- Review by Jennifer Vande Zande
- Issue Number Volume 40 Number 3
- Published Date May/June 2011
- Publication Cycle monthly
- Review by Bracha Goykadosh
- Issue Number Issue 12
- Published Date Summer 2011
- Publication Cycle Biannual
- Review by Jennifer Vande Zande
- Issue Number Issue 11
- Published Date 2006
- Publication Cycle Annual
- Review by Jeanne M. Lesinski