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The Writer's Corner

By Thursday Review Staff | published Monday, August 19, 2013 |


Looking for some real nutritional value for your literary diet? Here are some outtakes from some of the latest writer’s journals and magazines.

The July/August edition of Poetry features poems by Fanny Howe, Christina Davis, Phillis Levin, Sandra Beasley, and Robert Thomas. The 101 year-old literary magazine also has in its current issue essays by Michael Robbins, Claire Cavanagh and Marjorie Perloff, as well as the late Roger Ebert, who recalls his love of poetry and those he knew who enjoyed poetic performance.

The July/August edition (we can safely assume that those who write about writers also like to take a bit of time off in the summer) of Poets & Writers features as its cover story an in depth look at literary agents and how to find the right one for you. The 22-page special section is filled with valuable information and busts the myth that all good agents are found in New York. (Surprise: some of the best can be found in Boston, San Francisco and Seattle.) The current issue also features an interview with Neil Gaiman and a look at the new fiction of five first-time authors.

The September issue of The Writer’s Chronicle, a publication of the Association of Writers and Writing Programs, include an interview with novelist and short fiction writer Joan Wickersham, and a lengthy but rewarding article by Richard Jackson about the art and craft if infusing or rejecting the unknown and the mystical in contemporary poetry. The September edition also has a valuable article on the subject of the rejection letter, a piece of correspondence visited upon many a great writer.

The autumn editor of The Gettysburg Review features on its cover, and inside, earthy and ethereal abstract paintings by Tom Driscoll. The fall issue also contains poems by Jason Myers, Amie Whittemore, David Watts and Paul Zimmer, as well as short stories by Jenn Scott and Emily Nemens.