Now Available! Volume 18, no. 2 - Fall/Winter 2021-22
Featuring new work from: Diane Seuss, Nancy Reddy, Jihyun Yun, Chad Davidson, Christine Hume, Josh Bell, Kevin Latimer, and more! Plus, the winners of our 2021 Literary Awards!
Featured Writer: Willem Frederik Hermans
Announcing the Winner of our Ekphrastic Poetry Contest!
We are pleased to announce the results of our Ekphrastic Poetry Contest: Seriality, Sexuality, Semiotics:
Winner: Jeanette Lynes, for "1979"
Honorable Mention: Jacques Rancourt, for "Crossed Signals"
Finalists:
Joshua Garcia, for "Self-Portrait as Three Archetypal Media Images"
torrin a. greathouse, for "Bondage Device: Cross"
Brett Hanley, for "Bondage Device: Meat Hoist
The winner will read her work at the upcoming Krannert Art Museum symposium on Hal Fischer's photography (event details TBA). The winning, honorable mention, and finalist poems will appear in Ninth Letter's Spring/Summer 2022 edition (vol. 19, no. 1), due out in May 2022.
Many thanks to all who submitted work, and a special thanks to our guest judge, Eduardo C. Corral.
Special Feature: Some Books You May Have Missed!
This project is partially supported by the Illinois Arts Council
Current Web Edition: Summer 2021
Featuring JD Debris, Chelsea Harris, Leonore Hildebrandt, Laura Joyce-Hubbard, Jozie Konczal, Cortney Phillips Meriwether, Luisa Muradyan, Carolyn Oliver, Ploi Pirapokin, Savannah Slone, Grace H. Zhou
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