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Contributor News: Stacey Levine
Stacey Levine (“A Man Hid,” “Bianca Said,” Issue 1), along with many other women writers*,will be in a new anthology called The Lineup, edited by Richard Thomas,forthcoming in October from Black Lawrence Press.*Stories by: Paula Bomer, Karen Brown, Shannon Cain, Kim...
Contributor News: Laurie Blauner
Laurie Blauner (“Guide for the Perplexed,” Issue 2) has a new book of poetry,It Looks Worse Than I Am, forthcoming in October from What Books Press.It was the first selection from their new open-submission period.
Contributor News: Arielle Greenberg
Image by Letha Wilson, Easter Appalachian Trail, 2010. C-print, paper, and paint.Arielle Greenberg (“Afterschool Special,” “Swallow for Saturday,” Issue 2) has several new poems published online:“Pastoral: Commons,” “The Girl Dropped into the Homespace,” and “I Do Not...
New videos by Maureen Alsop
Maureen Alsop has completed a 4-part short-video series.The first, “Sweepspear,” features an excerpt from “Papery Bewick Swans/1956 Buick Super,” which was first published in Your Impossible Voice 3.The second, “Terrestris,” was posted at YIV in April.Parts 3 and 4...
Contributor News: Siamak Vossoughi
Siamak Vossoughi (“Worth it to be Wrong,” Issue 3) is going to be readingthis weekend as a part of the Beast Crawl festival in Oakland:July 12th, 8 p.m. SHARPOakstop1721 Broadway @ 17th StreetOakland, CaliforniaFirst 100 people get a copy of sparkle +...
Contributor News: Jon Riccio
Jon Riccio (“The Kleptomaniac’s Giraffe,” “Epistle Presley,” Issue 3) has two new published poems:“Rent Boy at Street Fair,”in the latest online issue of Petrichor Reviewand“The Mood Room,”in the second print issue of Small Po[r]tions.
Contributor News: Racquel Goodison
Racquel Goodison (“Night Music,” Issue 4) will be reading at the 8th Annual Welcome to Boog City Festival on August 5th at Unnameable Books 600 Vanderbilt Avenue Brooklyn, New York Listen to Racquel read "Night Music" appearing in Issue 4.
Contributor News: Thaddeus Rutkowski
Thaddeus Rutkowski (“Guess and Check,” Issue 2) has stories in the recent issues of Faultline and Sou’wester magazines.He will also be reading in Philadelphia, as part of The Fox Chase Reading SeriesSunday, June 29, 2 p.m.Ryerss Museum and Library7370 Central...
Contributor News: Mary Burger
Mary Burger’s (“Excerpt from Red Dust Tangle,” Issue 2) project Razzle Dazzle Melanism will be opening at Compound Gallery and Studios1167 65th StreetOakland, CA 94608 Opening reception Saturday, June 28 from 6 to 9pmRegular hours Wed through Sun, 12-7pmThe show is on...
Contributor News: Heather Mackey
Heather Mackey (reviews of Anne Marie Wirth Cauchon’s Nothing and Rodigo Rey Rosa’s Severina) will be reading from her debut novel at the Berkeley launch party for Dreamwood. Saturday, June 14, 4 p.m. Mrs. Dalloway’s 2904 College Avenue Berkeley, California...
Issue 4 | Summer 2014
With the summer heat just around the corner, Your Impossible Voice #4 is here to refresh and delight! Our latest issue brings new work from Fulbright Foundation fellow R. Zamora Linmark, National Endowment for the Arts fellow Geraldine Connolly, Norma Farber First Book Award winner Karen An-hwei Lee, Donald Hall Prize winner Kirsten Kaschock, David Bajo, Chris Yamashita, Racquel Goodison, Michael du Plessis, Sven Hansen-Löve, John Beckman, Christopher Kondrich, Sammy Greenspan, Peter Burzynski, Bryce Emley, Monica Macansantos, Sierra-Nicole Qualles. Cover art by Jason Trbovich.
Contributor News: Art Beck
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...
Karen An-hwei Lee reads Letter from Orange County: Twelve Fragments
Karen An-hwei Lee is the author of Phyla of Joy (Tupelo Press, 2012), Ardor (Tupelo Press, 2008), and In Medias Res (Sarabande Books, 2004), winner of the Norma Farber First Book Award. Her book of literary criticism, Anglophone Literatures in the Asian Diaspora:...
Bryce Emley reads To the Reader (Assuming She Is Carly Rae Jepsen)
Bryce Emley is a freelance writer/editor and has served on staff with The Florida Review, H_NGM_N, and BULL. His writing can be found in Prairie Schooner, The Cortland Review, The Pinch, Pleiades, and other places; he writes regularly for Matador Network.
Monica Macansantos reads The Day I Was a Comfort Woman
Monica Macansantos earned her MFA in Fiction Writing from the Michener Center for Writers at the University of Texas. A graduate of the University of the Philippines, her work has appeared or is forthcoming in The Masters Review, Five Quarterly, TAYO Literary...
Peter Burzynski reads Emeralds and Olives
Peter Burzynski is a first-year PhD student in Creative Writing-Poetry at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. He holds a BA from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, an MFA in Poetry from The New School University, and an MA in Polish Literature from Columbia...
Racquel Goodison reads Night Music
Racquel Goodison is an Assistant Professor of English at the Borough of Manhattan Community College, CUNY. She has been a resident at Yaddo and the Saltonstall Arts Colony, as well as a recipient of the Astraea Emerging Lesbian Writer’s Grant and a scholarship to the...
Michael du Plessis reads The Jeweler
Michael du Plessis is the author of the novel The Memoirs of JonBenet by Kathy Acker (Les Figues, 2012) and the chapbook Songs Dead Soldiers Sing (Chicago: Transparent Tiger Press, 2007). His creative work has appeared in Narrativity, LitNet, and NatBrut, and with...
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...