Art Beck (reviews of Vicente Aleixandre and Pierre Michon) and Arturo Mantecón will present their translations of the works of the Latin poets Luxorius and Catullus, as well as the works of Leopoldo María Panero and Francisco Ferrer Lerín, on Thursday, May 29, 6:30...
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Contributor News: Steve Davenport
Steve Davenport’s (“Dear No. 2 Pencil, Decomposing in Whiskey,” “Dear Lost Motel,” Issue 1) most recent book of poems, Overpass, is now on a virtual two-book shelf, courtesy of The Breast Cancer Consortium, with John Green’s The Fault in Our Stars.Also, David Wright’s...
Contributor News: Susan Daitch
Susan Daitch (“Production for Use,” Issue 3) has a new story, “The Revolution Will Not Be Televised,” up right now as part of Akashic Books’ “Mondays Are Murder” online noir series. Her essay, “Unnatural Habitats,” can be read in the current issue of Conjunctions...
Contributor News: Matt Galletta
Matt Galletta (“The Doppler,” Issue 3) has a new poetry book coming out this summer from Epic Rites Press, The Ship Is Sinking. The book features 32 poems, 19 of which have never appeared anywhere before.“Here is poetry as it was meant to be experienced. No bullshit....
Contributor News: Jennifer McGaha
Jennifer McGaha (“The Gift of the Pantyhose,” Issue 3) currently has two new pieces online:“In Defense of ‘Expressionist Crap’ ” discusses the use of personal narratives in first-year composition courses in The Chronicle of Higher Education.Also, her creative...
Contributor News: Jon Riccio
Jon Riccio (“The Kleptomaniac’s Giraffe,” “Epistle Presley,” Issue 3) has just published two new poems: “Spice Racks”, which can be read online at Blast Furnace and“Eyelashes” in Issue 4 of Plenitude
Contributor News: Christopher Hennessy
Christopher Hennessy (“Vasovagal Syncope,” “Eighth Grade Science: Darwin Et Cetera,” Issue 1) will be on a panel and running a workshop on May 3 at the Massachusetts Poetry Festival in Salem, MA. Saturday, May 3, 12:15-1:15 Panel: All Desire is Queer: What Poetry Can...
Contributor News: Siamak Vossoughi
Siamak Vossoughi (“Worth it to be Wrong,” Issue 3) will be reading on April 24, 7pm at Cafe du Soleil in San Francisco as part of the Writing without Walls reading series.
Contributor News: Pattie McCarthy
Pattie McCarthy (“from x y z & &,” Issue 1) has just published a new book, Nulls, from Horse Less Press. She has also published a chapbook, fifteen genre scenes, from eth press. It’s a “scribal experiment”—each copy is written out by hand.
Contributor News: Steve Davenport
Steve Davenport (“Dear No. 2 Pencil, Decomposing in Whiskey,” “Dear Lost Motel,” Issue 1) is reading in Florida on April 17.
Contributor News: Arielle Greenberg
Arielle Greenberg (“Afterschool Special,” “Swallow for Saturday,” Issue 2) has a piece up online now at The Volta on rock music foremothers of the Gurlesque.
Contributor News: Susan Daitch
Susan Daitch (“Production for Use,” Issue 3) has an essay, “Unnatural Habitats,” in the current issue of Conjunctions magazine.
Contributor News: Joe Wenderoth
Joe Wenderoth (“Country Doctor Artistry,” Issue 1) has a new book of poems coming out from Wave Books in a month or so. It is called If I Don’t Breathe How Do I Sleep.
Contributor News: Karen An-hwei Lee
Karen An-hwei Lee (review of Notes on the Mosquito) has a new book of criticism, Anglophone Literatures in theAsian Diaspora: Literary Transnationalism and Translingual Migrations. More, including a review, at its publisher, Cambria Press. She will also be moderating...
Contributor News: Peter Kline
Peter Kline (“An Encounter,” “Deviants,” Issue 1) has recently published his debut collection of poems, Deviants, through Stephen F. Austin State University Press.
Contributor News: Arisa White
A new opera—and appearances in Seattle—from Arisa White (“Here the neighbor screams for Frankie,” “I’m waiting for you like waiting,” “We are stupid, meaning amazed,” Issue 1): I’m excited today. I’m in the process of putting together a press release about the opera...
Contributor News: Steve Davenport
Steve Davenport (“Dear No. 2 Pencil, Decomposing in Whiskey,” “Dear Lost Motel,” Issue 1) has two poems reprinted, a short essay on place and poetry, and a four-question interview at Atticus Review. His poem “True Confessions,” from his second collection Overpass,...
Contributor News: Christopher Hennessy
Christopher Hennessy (“Vasovagal Syncope,” “Eighth Grade Science: Darwin Et Cetera,” Issue 1) has just released a new book: Our Deep Gossip: Conversations with Gay Writers on Poetry and Desire “A powerful living archive of the great stakes and pleasures of...
Contributor News: Thaddeus Rutkowski
Thaddeus Rutkowski (“Guess and Check,” Issue 2) has recently published two new books: Haywire: A Novel Asian American Literary Awards finalist and 2013 Members’ Choice Award from the Asian American Writers Workshop (NYC) I’m glad to say my latest “novel,” Haywire, is...
Contributor News: Mary Burger
Read/hear newly published works from Mary Burger (“Excerpt from Red Dust Tangle,” Issue 2): “Codes of Incompletion” at Textsound, issue 18 and Eleven Eleven, issue 16 and “Matlike” at Poetry Center Chapbook Exchange.She is also showing prints at Collector Gallery in...
2014 Your Impossible Voice Pushcart Nominations
We at Your Impossible Voice are thrilled to announce our very first nominations for the Pushcart Prize.The Traiguén Epidemic by Alejandra Costamagna, Translated by Mary G. BergExcerpt from Early Spring by Alvin LuMistral by Lisa Williamsfrom x y z & & by...
Your Impossible Voice Live at Alley Cat Books!
The new issue of Your Impossible Voice is almost here! To celebrate, we're inviting you to Alley Cat Books for a reading featuring some of the amazing authors from our first and second issues!Join us, Alvin Lu (the Hell Screens), Mary Burger (Sonny), Peter Kline...
Now Accepting Submissions For Issue #2
Your Impossible Voice is now accepting submissions for its second issue due out December 1. We're looking for quality, unpublished fiction, nonfiction, and poetry, from around the world. We don't charge any reading fees and do pay our contributors. For prose, we would...
A Big Thank You!
As we gear up for the big issue launch, we here at Your Impossible Voice want to take a minute to thank the following independent bookstores for their support in helping us get the word out. BookPeople www.bookpeople.com 603 N. Lamar Blvd Austin, TX 78703 USA (512)...