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Flarf. A serious art form?Shell Fischer, a member of TLR's editorial team, recently had her article "Can Flarf Ever Be Taken Seriously?" published in Poets & Writers.Forthcoming from Renée Ashley, Basic HeartRenée Ashley ". . . offers us new kinds of songs for our broken-down age. . . ." —Jack Myers, series judgeBasic Heart is a primer on the emotional topography of the human heart, its complexities and fluctuations, its nuances and metaphors. From tropes grounded in the fantastic landscapes of awareness, of desire and despair, Ashley draws us a map of a world and shows us just how that "world is turned like a pig on a spit." She brings us back to the recognition that we are all ordinary, that sometimes we need saving, and that "what is saved just might turn beautiful." Due out July 28, 2009, pre-order now. Check out a sneak peak of Basic Heart on TLR's Chapbook page. AFRICA CALLING: New Stories. New Perspectives. New African Writers.The Winter 2009 issue of Africa Calling, guest edited by Jeffery Renard Allen, features work by African writers writing in English. Amongst this diverse selection, there are influences to trace. You can see, perhaps, Ben Okri in Stanley Gazemba’s “Pema peponi,” or Ayi Kwei Armah in moments of Christopher Mlalazi’s “King of Bums.” Larabanga.”10th Annual Celebration of Literary MagazinesJoin the CLMP in celebrating literary magazines, from 6x6 to Fence and St. Petersburg Review, among others. Events take place on May 30th & 31st. Find out more.5th Annual Hudson Valley Literary FestivalOn Saturday, May 23, the CLMP is hosting a daylong celebration of literary journals and publishing. All events are free and open to the public. Find out more.Chris Arthur's essay "(En)trance" selected for Best American EssaysCongratulations to Chris Arthur, whose piece "(En)trance," which appeared in TLR's Winter 2008 issue, has been selected for The Best American Essays, edited by Mary Oliver.The U.S. has no great writing?Members of the Nobel panel for literature have said that "the United States is too insular and ignorant to compete with Europe when it comes to great writing." The Literary Review feels differently. Feel free to check out the work in our most recent issues.We're Looking For New Work!Beginning with our Spring 2009 issue, The Literary Review will be debuting a new themed-issue format. Forthcoming themes include: Manifest Destiny (Spring 2009), Invisible Cities (Summer 2009) with a special Indian Poetry Portfolio to be guest-edited by Sudeep Sen, Therapy (Fall 2009), and Machismo: a Field Guide (Winter 2010).Our submissions office is open again for business, and we are looking for your ideas and contributions to our forthcoming issues. more Minna Proctor Named New TLR EditorMinna Proctor will become Editor-in-Chief of TLR at the end of August 2008. She has been an editor and consultant in publishing for over ten years. She was editor of Colors, managing editor of Bomb, and recently a consultant on the launch of Good.. Her book on the idea of religious calling in America more . . .Initial issue of Sphere: An International Journal of Student Writing Now OnlineThe new issue contains stories by Louise Aronson, Laurance Klavan, and Daniela Tordi; poems by more . .
TLR ON THE WEB TLR on MySpace and Facebook NEW ISSUES Fall 2008 Issue Available Summer 2008 Issue NEWS, READINGS AND WORKSHOPS 2007 Pushcart NominationsCopenhagen Readings for Spring 2008 New Danish Writing Issue Advisory Editor Thomas E. Kennedy honored with Best Essay awardRECENT CONTRIBUTORS' PUBLICATIONS Jeffery Renard Allen's story collection, Holding Pattern, from Graywolf Press Doug Ramspeck's, poetry collection Black Tupelo Country by BkMk Press, 2008Linda Lappin's novel, Katherine's Wish, from Wordcraft of Oregon Steve Davenport's essay chapbook, Murder on Gasoline Lake. from New American Press Thomas E. Kennedy's essay collection, Riding the Dog: A Look Back at America from New American Press Writers on the Job: Tales of the Non-Writng Life, edited by Thomas E. Kennedy and Walter Cummins from Hopewell Publications New publications by contributors Amity Gaige awarded ForeWord magazine's Editor's Choice Prize for Fiction Heidi W. Durrow awarded Barbara Kingsolver's Bellwether Prize for Literature of Social Change Pamela Erens' The Understory an LA Times Book Prize finalist Meg Waite Clayton's The Wednesday Sisters Yael Goldstein's story, "Taste's Like Regular" (Summer 2007), in Italian translation Duff Brenna's The Law of Falling Bodies STAFF NEWS Staff Changes CONTACT For correspondence; online submissions onlyThe Literary Review M-GH2-01 285 Madison Avenue Madison, NJ 07940 |
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