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My short story “Anniversary” is in the just-released summer 2009 issue of The Georgia Review, one of the hands-down best literary journals in the country! Here’s a little bit from their website:

Since its inception in 1947, The Georgia Review has grown steadily to its current position as one of America’s premier journals of arts and letters. Each quarterly issue offers a rich gathering of stories, essays, poems, book reviews, and visual art orchestrated to invite and sustain repeated readings. Is it any wonder that over seventy percent of our readers add our issues to their permanent libraries? Or that The Review won the 1986 National Magazine Award in Fiction for stories by Mary Hood, Lee K. Abbott, and Gary Gildner, and the 2007 National Magazine Award in Essays for Michael Donohue’s “Russell and Mary.”

Writers featured in the Review range from Nobel laureates and Pulitzer Prize winners to the most deserving newer voices–including many who have never published before. Such well-known figures as Eudora Welty, John Edgar Wideman, Eavan Boland, William Stafford, Judith Ortiz Cofer, and Philip Levine join emerging writers like Gordon Johnston and Brad Barkley in the quarterly that Magazines for Libraries calls “one of the best bargains in American publishing.”

According to the Utne Reader, “Amid the legion of look-alike mags, The Georgia Review asserts a unique identity: . . . substance in an age of surface.” And the London Times Literary Supplement reports: “The Georgia Review goes from strength to varied strength. Reading issues entire . . . brings home the fact that this journal sets the standard of literary, editorial, and graphic excellence. . . . With differing emphases and in different ways, The Georgia Review seems at times to talk to us all.” 

I just got word my essay “Out West,” which is set to appear in the September issue of Orion Magazine, will also be the featured reading on Orion’s monthly podcast!

It should be up the 1st of September!

The latest issue of Evergreen Review, which includes my poem “Manifesto,” is up!

Evergreen Review has a quite a history. The Editor-in-Chief, Barney Rosset, was the first to publish Samuel Beckett in America, as well as classic beat writers like Jack Kerouac and William Boroughs.

Here is a bit from their website:

Evergreen Review debuted pivotal works by Samuel Beckett, Jorge Luis Borges, Charles Bukowski, William Burroughs, Marguerite Duras, Jean Genet, Allen Ginsberg, Gunter Grass, Jack Kerouac, Norman Mailer, Henry Miller, Pablo Neruda, Vladimir Nabokov, Frank O’Hara, Kenzaburo Oe, Octavio Paz, Harold Pinter, Susan Sontag, Tom Stoppard, Derek Walcott and Malcolm X. United States Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas wrote a controversial piece for the magazine in 1969. Kerouac and Ginsberg regularly had their writing published in the magazine.

The original Evergreen Review ceased publication in 1973, but the magazine was revived in 1998 in an online edition edited by founder Barney Rosset and Astrid Rosset. The online edition features flashbacks to previous Evergreen Review editions, as well as debuts by contemporary writers such as Dennis Nurkse, Giannina Braschi, and Regina Dereiva.

Anyway, if you get a chance, check it out!

Just got word my personal essay “You, All of You” will be appearing sometime next winter in The Sun.

The following is from their website:

“The Sun, with its superb photographs, is the only magazine that I sit down and read as soon as it arrives. It’s full of people like a Globe Theatre; it’s nourishing like a field of pumpkins; it’s like a grandfather who talks to total strangers.” -Robert Bly 

The Sun is an independent, ad-free monthly magazine that for more than thirty years has used words and photographs to invoke the splendor and heartache of being human. The Sun celebrates life, but not in a way that ignores its complexity. The personal essays, short stories, interviews, poetry, and photographs that appear in its pages explore the challenges we face and the moments when we rise to meet those challenges.

The Sun publishes the work of emerging and established artists who are striving to be thoughtful and authentic. Writing from The Sun has won the Pushcart Prize, been published in Best American Short Stories and Best American Essays, and been broadcast on National Public Radio.

The Sun invites readers to consider an array of political, social, and philosophical ideas and then to join the conversation. Each issue includes a section devoted entirely to writing by readers, who address topics as varied as Telling the Truth, Neighbors, Hiding Places, Second Chances, and Gambling.

From its idealistic, unlikely inception in 1974 to its current incarnation as a nonprofit magazine with more than 70,000 subscribers, The Sun has attempted to marry the personal and political; to honor the genuine and the spiritual; to see what kind of roommates beauty and truth can be; and to show that powerful teaching can be found in the lives of ordinary people.

Hey All,

I’m pretty new at this but thought I’d make a place for folks to keep up with my writing. Poke around and drop me a line if you like!

Also, check out the latest issue of The Indiana Review. I’m in there along with the likes of Melanie Rae Thon, Campbell McGrath, and Michael McGriff.

Happy Reading,

Joe