Article Archive: News and Trends

Small Press Points highlights the innovation and can-do spirit of independent presses. This issue features the San Francisco–based feminist press Aunt Lute Books.

South African artist Barbara Wildenboer transforms old reference books into delicate sculptures that evoke their sources’ subject matter. 

Small Press Points highlights the innovation and can-do spirit of independent presses. This issue features the Tallahassee, Florida–based Twisted Road Publications, which champions authors overlooked by mainstream publishing and “books that depict the shadowy places where the disenfranchised dwell.”

Alex Dimitrov takes us through five journals that first published poems appearing in his new book, Together and by Ourselves.

The new executive director of the Cave Canem Foundation talks about her history with the organization, her vision for the future, and the role of poetry in a hostile political climate.

After the election, writers and editors around the country responded by launching new publications as outlets for both literary excellence and impassioned social critique.

This issue’s MagNet features fiction writer Deb Olin Unferth, who takes us through five journals that first published stories appearing in her new collection, Wait Till You See Me Dance.

In his Instagram-based photography series, artist B. A. Van Sise creates powerful portraits of American poets who are influenced by Walt Whitman, of whom Van Sise happens to be one of the closest living descendants.