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Maureen Alsop reads Sweepspear
Maureen Alsop, PhD is the author of two full collections of poetry, Mantic (Augury Books) and Apparition Wren. Her most recent poems have appeared at Watershed Review, Citron Review, and ditch poetry.
Jennifer McGaha reads The Gift of the Pantyhose
A native of Appalachia, Jennifer McGaha lives with her husband, five dogs, twenty-three chickens, and one high-maintenance cat in a tin-roofed cabin bordering the Pisgah National Forest in western North Carolina. Her creative nonfiction work has appeared in...
Susan Carlson reads Death, Life, And Everything Else
Susan Carlson lives and works in southeastern Michigan. After years of solitary writing, she has recently begun working intently with other poets, bringing her own work into the open. This is her first publication.
Midori Chen reads A Growing Up Interlude
Midori Chen is a senior at San Francisco Ruth Asawa School of the Arts. She is a fiction writer and a poet, and has been published in online and print magazines such as Weirdyear, Off the Coast, and Umläut.
Issue 3 | Spring 2014
Your Impossible Voice #3 features new work from award-winning Cuban writer, editor, and screenwriter Francisco García González, novelist and New York Foundation for the Arts Fellow Susan Daitch, writer, poet, and filmmaker Lonely Christopher, and Gilberto Owen National Prize winner Vivian Abenshushan, and more.
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.
Carlos Labbé and Will Vanderhyden read an excerpt from The Fortress
Carlos Labbé was born in Chile and is the author of six novels and a collection of short stories. This year, Open Letter published the English translation of his novel Navidad & Matanza, to be followed in 2015 by Loquela (both translated by Will Vanderhyden). He...
Alvin Lu reads an excerpt from Early Spring
Alvin Lu was born and lives in San Francisco. He attended Brown University, where he received an MFA in writing, and has worked as a journalist, a salaryman in Tokyo, and a publisher of manga. He is the author of a novel The Hell Screens, and has been at work on a...
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...
Issue 2 | Winter 2013
Your Impossible Voice #2 features new work from New York Foundation for the Arts Fellow Thaddeus Rutkowski, multiple Best American Poetry contributor Arielle Greenberg, MacArthur Fellow and Berlin Prize winner Han Ong, Bay Area favorites Lewis Buzbee and Mary Burger, 2013 Before Columbus Foundation American Book Award winner Will Alexander, and more
Katy Masuga reads Biking at Night
Katy Masuga writes fiction and nonfiction, blurring the lines of distinction. She holds a PhD in Comparative Literature from the University of Washington, Seattle, and a Joint-PhD in Literary Theory and Criticism. Her publications include two monographs on Henry...
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...
Arielle Greenberg reads Afterschool Special
Arielle Greenberg is co-author of Home/Birth: A Poemic, author of My Kafka Century, Given, and co-editor of three anthologies, including Gurlesque. She lives in Maine and teaches out of her home, in the Maine community, and in the Oregon State University-Cascades low...