“It’s already hard to imagine the American literary scene without it.”
We are very pleased to announce that Douglas Basford’s translation of Silvio D’Arzo’s “Cosi vinti dal dolore (So overcome with pain),” in
Click here to read an interview with John Brandon (Subtropics 5 & 6). Other author interviews can be found on the Interviews page.
Subtropics 6 is now out—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.
In Memoriam: Subtropics 6 contributors Eric Van Cleve (1982–2008) and Joanne Childers (1926–2008).
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.
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.
Prose: Underwater Christ Statue off Key Largo, Mark Theiss/Ultimate Chase/Corbis, 2007 Poetry: Above a Small Swamp (detail), Maud Gatewood, 1992
