west branch wired

Rigoberto González helps out with the latest installment of West Branch Wired.

Read his editor's note here.

devil's lake

have you read devil's lake? it's wicked! ha, ha, ha, ha.

ok, seriously: it's a fine online journal.

they've only published one issue, but it's a wonderful issue. i'm fond of this poem, and this poem, and this poem.

and the mini-interviews are full of stunning sentences: I think war is an erasure of personal experience. It is an erasure of the importance of the individual. I meant there to be a kind of terrible irony in that line. War does make the individual unimportant. It is a reduction of individual life to an absurdity.

and guess what? the devil is accepting submissions!

triquarterly online

three mini-reviews:
Catie Rosemurgy, Stephen Dobyns, and Nick Lantz

poems by:
Ted Mathys (he's freaking hot!)
D.A. Powell
Neil de la Flor & Maureen Seaton
and others!

fiction by:
Thisbe Nissen
Antonya Nelson
and others!

some goodies from the collagist

Wondering Home: Tamiko Beyer
Sleep Seeds: Denise Duhamel
Mind Over Matter: C. Dale Young

some good stuff from Cerise Press

Little by Little Psalm by Paul Otremba
On Race Road by Rick Barot
On the Occasion of Your Wedding by Sandra Beasley
effigy by Quan Barry
April Aubade by Tarfia Faizullah

another one bites the dust or another journal sees the light of day

This spring, Shenandoah: The Washington and Lee University Review, celebrates one milestone and prepares for another. First comes the 60th anniversary issue of the journal, a tribute to writer Flannery O'Connor. And then comes a change, when Shenandoah shifts from print to Web.

from Identity Theory Editors' Blog

This should be a golden age of literary journals. And it is, for some larger forward-looking publications. McSweeney's, the New Yorker, Tin House, and others have found compatibility between financial sustainability and what my old boss Henry Jenkins calls "spreadability", removing barriers to sharing content so that fans can build communities around that content.