Literary Matters

LM 18.1 is now LIVE! literarymatters.org/issue-18-1/

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New issue (18.2) dropping on April 6th! Tell all your friends!

LM 18.1 includes a 2015 interview with the “lost giant of American literature,” William Melvin Kelley. This interview, which is believed to be the last one Kelley ever gave, has never been published before now. literarymatters.org/18-1-a-conserv…

Editors: @JMSteinhafel (EIC), Matthew Buckley Smith (Poetry), @CaitlinCDoyle1 (Interviews), @ChrisChildersoO (Translations), Cameron Clark (Associate Poetry), @alexissearspoet (Contributing), Ryan Wilson (Emeritus), Jeffrey Peters (Production)

Contributors (cont.): R. Nemo Hill, David Lehner, Julie Steiner, Shane McCrae, Niall Campbell (@NiallCPoetry), Judith Harris, Julie Danho (@DanhoJulie), Forester McClatchey (@fhmcclatchey), David Lehman (@DavidLehman), Pedro Poitevin (@poitevin)... (3/3)

LM 18.1 is now LIVE! literarymatters.org/issue-18-1/

New issue (18.1) coming soon, August 12th!

Literary Imagination's parent organization, the Association of Literary Scholars, Critics, and Writers (alscw.org), is holding a call for papers for its annual conference, deadline June 10. Propose something! alscw.org/wp-content/upl…

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Issue 27.1 of Literary Imagination, the first under its new editorship, will be going into the mail very soon. If you are a member of the press interested in obtaining a copy for review, please be in touch! @TheTLS @LRB @BooksandtheArts @ChronicleReview @clereviewbooks

New pome, with thanks to LRB: lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v47/…

You won't want to miss this month's newsletter link round-up, curated by Ethan McGuire (@AHeavyMetalPen). Tang poetry, Pindar, Horace, metal poetry, fear, and more! Featuring @AmitMajmudar @Poochigian @Zina_GomezLiss @victoriamoul @JMWSPT @AlexRettie @SallyThomasNC

A.E. Stallings. "Resurrection's in the air / Like the whiff of vinegar."

The 28th Annual Conference of the ALSCW will take place November 6-9, 2025, at The Ohio State University. Sessions range from “Anton Chekhov’s Stories” to “The Weary Blues at 100” to “Shakespeare in the Theatre.” Full CFP at link. alscw.org/wp-content/upl…

Coming soon!

Featuring poems previously published in @AgapeReview, @Heroin_Chic_Mag, @betterthanstar2, @ihatemattwall, @TheCrank11, The Creativity Webzine, @wstfllitfed, @FeversOf, Flashes of Brilliance, @LM_ALSCW, @LothlorienJ, MW, @newversereview, @PoemsforPOI, @poetrycove, @poetry_pub…

“From Life” by Shane McCrae @parisreview