“It’s already hard to imagine the American literary scene without it.”

Click here to read an interview with John Brandon (Subtropics 5 & 6). Other author interviews can be found on the Interviews page. Happy reading!

Subtropics 6 will be out in May—a double issue with two covers! Featuring stories by Jacob M. Appel, John Brandon, Nadia Kalman, and Celeste Ng; an essay by Timothy Cook; a novella by Peter Wells; and 41 poets, including Peter Cooley, Averill Curdy, Richard Kenney, John Kinsella, Kathleen Rooney, Reginald Shepherd, A. E. Stallings, G. C. Waldrep, and Suzanne Zweizig. In translation: poems by Tomaz Salamun and Hai Zi, and a story by Ricardo Silva Romero.

We are very pleased to announce that Tony D’Souza (Subtropics 2), Bob Hicok (Subtropics 1 and 5), and Reginald Shepherd (Subtropics 6) have received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation for 2008–2009.

Subtropics 5, with Cristina Ferreira-Pinto Bailey’s translation of Marina Colasanti’s “Jantar familiar/Family Dinner,” was featured in Poetry Daily on Thursday, March 6.

Subtropics 5 is now available! The new issue features fiction by Chris Bachelder, John Brandon, Suzanne Halmi, Roy Kesey, Owen King, Marshall N. Klimasewiski, Paul Lisicky, and Ben Stroud; an essay by Mark Doty; and poems by Jonathan Barrett, Ann Buggey, Marina Colasanti (translated by Cristina Ferreira-Pinto Bailey), Sally Dawidoff, Geri Doran, Ori Joseph Fienberg, Martin Galvin, Bob Hicok, Mark Jarman, Jan Marie LaPerle, Jeanne Larsen, Beth Martinelli, J. Morris, H. E. Sayeh (translated by Chad Sweeney and Mojdeh Marashi), Heather Sellers, Anis Shivani, Ben Sonnenberg, and C. Dale Young.

We are very pleased to announce that D. A. Powell’s poem “cosmos, late blooming” from Subtropics 3 has been selected by Charles Wright to appear in The Best American Poetry 2008.

Barbara Hamby’s “Ode on Dictionaries,” from Subtropics 4, was the Poetry Daily featured poem for December 13, 2007.

We are very pleased to announce that Laura Furman has been awarded a National Endowment for the Arts grant based on her story “Here It Was, November” in Subtropics 3.

In the Swamp (detail), Charles E. Burchfield, 1917