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In case you missed it, our eLitPak for May was released last week with flyers from Our Lady of the Lake University, Wilson College, Winning Writers, Apple in the Dark, author Terry Tierney, and more. If you missed out, you can view it online here.
With a long weekend ahead, the NewPages Newsletter will be coming out on Tuesday next week instead of Monday. If you will be traveling, don’t forget to check out our Guide to Indie Bookstores to see if you can find one at your destination.
And with the long weekend ahead, if you don’t have plans to travel, it may be a good time to write, edit, and catch up on upcoming deadlines. Flying South’s annual writing contest closes May 31 as does Kallisto Gaia Press’ inaugural Joshua Tree Novel Prize. Salamander’s 2023 Fiction Prize closes June 1 and The MacGuffin’s hunt for the best poem ends June 15. Learn more about these and more opportunities below.
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Find some good reads for the long weekend on our Magazine Stand which is full of new issues of literary magazines. The Winter 2022 issue of SRPR (Spoon River Poetry Review) is ow available with much to offer readers including an interview of poet Rebecca Morgan Frank by Jenna Goldsmith and Meghan Malachi’s prize-winning poem. AGNI 97 features work by Garielle Lutz, Via Bleidner, Anna Badkhen, Kai Maristed, and more.
The Spring 2023 issue of Valley Voices is themed “Goodbye” which the writers in this issue have explored from many different viewpoints such as departure, detachment, death, divorce, change for new life, promising career, or bright future. Catherine Esposito Prescott, Etheridge Knight, and Caridad Moro-Gronlier all had one poem reviewed from their newly published collections in The Lake’s May 2023 issue.
Plume #141 sees the online journal close to celebrating its 12th anniversary and talking about how they remain true to their initial mission statement. Included with the twelve poems published in this issue, find essays, reviews, and longer featured sections, like a portfolio of poems from Mariella Nigro’s Memory Rewritten and an interview by Mihaela Moscaliuc with translators Jesse Lee Kercheval and Jeannine Marie Pitas.
The Iowa Review’s double issue, 52.2/52.3, is chock full of excellent poetry, nonfiction, fiction, and translation by both emerging and established writers such as Kwame Dawes, Kimiko Hahn, Teresa Veiga (translated by Jeremy Klemin). Plus, enjoy the work of the winners of the 2022 Iowa Review Awards. Issue 92 of The Louisville Review features a cover that has received more compliments than ever before. The design is by Jonathan Weinert with artwork by Ying Kit Chan. Besides great cover art, you can enjoy a moving tribute to Kentucky Poet Laureate and Bellarmine professor Fredrick Smock who passed away unexpectedly last year.
Colorado Review’s Spring 2023 offers up some sage, yet ominous, advice from Brendan McKennedy’s “Deep River”: “Whatever plans you think you got, you better get some others.” Rings especially true with the craziness of the past few years. Also in this issue, enjoy Joanna Pearson, Deepa Varadarajan, Emily Winakur, Jonathan Gleason, Erica Goss, and more. Besides publishing their annual print issue, The Society of Classical Poets first features that work online at their website. Recent contributors include Paul A. Freeman, Chery Corey, Brian Yapko, Mary Gardner, and Monika Cooper to name just a few.
RockPaperPoem is a triannual journal recently featured in our New Lit on the Block series. They seek to publish “today’s finest poetry” from writers residing anywhere in the world. Their goal is to expand “boundaries of contemporary poetry, without sacrificing accessibility for experimentation.” Stop by the Magazine Stand tomorrow to discover The Stirling Review. Plus, throughout the week you’ll find more new issues from The Main Street Rag, The Midwest Quarterly, The Baltimore Review, Chestnut Review, Arc Poetry, The Missouri Review, and The MacGuffin.
Looking for your next beach read or books for a summer reading challenge? Dive into our Book Stand featuring new and forthcoming titles from indie and university presses. A great place to start? Our entire list of Books Received for May 2023.
Michael Earl Craig’s poetry collection Iggy Horse was released last month from Wave Books and features work that “resonates with an inscrutable logic that feels excitedly otherworldly and unsettlingly familiar.” Outer Sunset: A Novel by Mark Ernest Pothier follows a recently retired English teacher living alone on the shifting edge of San Francisco. Published during the pandemic years, discover Kimberly Ann Priest’s The Optimist Shelters in Place which has each poem in the collection playing with the title.
In celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of White Pines Press, they have reissued the classic Windows That Open Inward: Images of Chile featuring poems by Pablo Neruda and photography by Milton Rogovin. Lambda Award-winning poet Ana Božičević’s latest collection New Life features poems that “are by turns cheeky and heartfelt, grounded and wistful, and above all—surprising.”
Julia Wertz’s graphic memoir Impossible People: A Completely Average Recovery Story opens at the culmination of a disastrous trip to Puerto Rico and flashes back to the beginning of Wertz’s five-year journey towards sobriety. If you like visual poetry, you’ll want to circle September in your calendar. David Alpaugh’s Seeing the There There: Visual Poems is releasing that month. In this collection, Alpaugh intermixes his poetry with his visual artwork. Fred Moten’s latest collection perennial fashion presence falling features poems presenting Moten’s “shaped prose” on the page.
Don’t forget to check out the Book Stand throughout the week to find even more new titles by Claire Millikin, J. R. Solonche, Timothy Donnelly, Susan Atefat-Peckham, and an anthology edited by Nomi Stone and Luke Hankins.
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Get even more reading recommendations from our reviewers. Kevin Brown tackles the anthology In Wanting: Women Writing About Desire edited by Margot Kahn and Kelly McMasters which features essays that have “a wider range than that narrow reading of the word” desire. Plus, Editor Denise Hill reviews Will Betke-Brunswick’s graphic memoir A Pros and Cons List for Strong Feelings which “offers brief but deeply intimate and sometimes discomfortingly honest glimpses into someone’s life.”
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