Another Year

The American Scholar

Article

Ways of Being

Sep 1, 2022

In 2019, Forrest Gander won the Pulitzer Prize for his collection of poems Be With. The title was a quotation from his wife, the poet C. D. Wright, who died suddenly in 2016. Wright’s final book, ShallCross, which was published posthumously that same

Writing Magazine

Article

Getting Festive

Mar 5, 2020

Part of the pleasure of judging a competition is the thrill of anticipation when the parcel arrives. How many entries will there be? (Never possible to know.) Will they all be clamouring to be the winner, or will they be a lacklustre set? The good ne

Writer's Digest

Article

Poetic Asides

Jun 13, 2022

The chanso is a French form that offers poets a great deal of freedom—even as it sticks to some very defined rules. Here are the guidelines: • Five to six stanzas of the same length followed by an envoy (a brief stanza that ends French poetic forms s

New Zealand Listener

Article

Points Of Order

Jan 19, 2020

Three years ago, reading Lynley Edmeades’ debut collection, As the Verb Tenses, I decided that the three things of most interest to her were time, memory and, especially, language. Listening In confirms this view. Often witty, sometimes satirical, bu

Writing Magazine

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International zine Scene

Aug 4, 2022

LETTER REVIEW From Australia comes a new zine, Letter Review, which is an online literary journal with an editorial team ‘dedicated to assisting writers to get published, performed, and produced’. The zine ‘features interviews with professional write

Orion Magazine

Article

Out Here

Nov 27, 2023

You cross in front of me speakingto the sun. Then you turn away south,saying rain snow. Miles until we see north,blue and less blue, changingwhere silver evolves: mountain, clouds. I slip in the silt and land on my handswhere a glacier had been, no m

Reader's Digest UK

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In This Issue…

May 18, 2021

As you’re reading this magazine, Britain is preparing for the final step in the easing of COVID lockdown restrictions. Finally, family can be embraced and friends can be reunited—love can resume uninterupted. It’s fitting then, that so many of our st

Poets & Writers

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Literary MagNet

Feb 12, 2020

The formally playful, register-mixing sensibility of Eric Tran’s debut, The Gutter Spread Guide to Prayer (Autumn House Press, February 2020), animates even the titles of such poems as “Regrets, in the Style of Clue,” “Portrait as Captain America Hol

Writing Magazine

Article

Get It Together

Jul 7, 2022

The editorial team at Five Points are part of the Georgia State University Department of English. They publish three times a year and each issue features poetry, fiction, essays and interviews with writers. The journal title is a metaphor for their g

Writing Magazine

Article

Get It Together

Jul 7, 2022

The editorial team at Five Points are part of the Georgia State University Department of English. They publish three times a year and each issue features poetry, fiction, essays and interviews with writers. The journal title is a metaphor for their g