Plur·al·ity Press

10/17/2024

FYI!
--The Paris Review is also open for fiction, including translations, and poetry via Submittable until they hit a submission cap, and by post thereafter, postmarked until 31 October 2024. Details here and here.
-- And, Brick is open for fee-free literary nonfiction submissions via Submittable until they reach a submission cap; they tend toward works of 1,000-5,000 words, and pay $65–720. Details here and here.)

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10/14/2024

Post this job post! Looking for a lit agent.

10/14/2019

“Would to G-d that all the L-rd’s People were Prophets” – Numbers 11:29. David Mehnert, our new contributor, takes on the question as to whether we--as artists--are prophets in the midst of our times. Read on!

http://www.pluralitypress.com/interpunct-blog/prophecies-celestial-beings-artists-the-messianic-age-to-come-by-david-mehnert

​“Would to G-d that all the L-rd’s People were Prophets” – Numbers 11:29

02/12/2019

Em Tielman writes an exciting piece on the surrealist landscape that is the body and the land of Haiti as experienced in Vivant Art Collection's newest series "Scattered Grains: From Africa to Haiti and Beyond." In the figurative, we find the unimaginable. Read on!

http://www.pluralitypress.com/interpunct-blog/in-the-face-of-adversity-a-review-of-the-collection-scattered-grains-from-africa-to-haiti-and-beyond-by-em-tielman

07/27/2018

Instapoetry and form poetry are one and the same: They both respond creatively to a constraint. Join in on the conversation...

According to Google, “poetry” is defined as “literary work in which special intensity is given to the expression of feelings and ideas by the use of distinctive style and rhythm; poems...

12/20/2017

"When we think of the world itself, with all of its screens and filters, there is something of such deep simplicity about it," says Shayna S. Israel in her latest Editor's Note on Design Miami. She reminds us to go beyond illusions to find brilliant beauty everywhere. Read on!

​I made a promise to myself last year at Art Basel Miami: “I am going get to Design Miami as one of the top things on my list.” And it happened! Last year, driving through the alluring Miami...

12/20/2017

"Paintings aren’t hung in a lab," Sean Sullivan, one of our new contributors, writes: "political ripples aren't automatically plucked. " Yet and still, quoting Eliot, Sean points out “genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.” Read on!

Do you hear that? That sound. The sound of commentators compressing the universe of art onto a 1996 USB. Once it was a whisper. Now it’s growing louder. Somebody gave it a megaphone and a million...

12/14/2017

Check out Art Basel Miami reflections from a 20-something year-old correspondent. The main rule: Be Zen. Read on!

http://www.pluralitypress.com/litdesign-blog/reflections-on-covering-art-basel-miami-from-a-20-something-year-old-by-jessica-rohl

LitDesign is a visual exploration into the relationship between literary arts and space. Whether out in nature, on the page, with architecture or somewhere out of this world—language is the space...

12/14/2017

"Cocoa Puffs or Fruit Loops? I will judge your answer," Siobhan Carr comically begins her interview with poet & LitDesign contributor Jordan Brown on his latest book "Man as a Cactus." She deftly blends the silly with the solemn, "The book certainly gives way to the feelings of loss. Loss of family, father, and religion." Join in on the conversation!

I often find myself when reading a new book or viewing a piece for the first time wishing that I could sit down with the creator over a cup of coffee and just have a simple conversation about what...

12/13/2017

"The sun sets quickly in Hong Kong," writes Nick Demski, "and a bright, almost-full moon was glowing behind a microphone overlooking the sea," as he recounts reading poetry at the Cheung Chau Wave Arts Festival. Check out one of Interpunct's newest contributors. Read on!

The boarding pier for an orange-and-white boat, Star Ferry IV , is in one of the busiest and noisiest districts in Hong Kong where people walk down the street like Richard Ashcroft in ‘Bittersweet...

12/13/2017

"My question is a question of record," Shayna S. Israel writes in her latest piece. Reflecting on the current state many emerging artists face, “[There’s been an] efficiency in keeping the living obsessed with mortality and its material evidence. We never gave the question a second thought to whether what we are experiencing is a kind of war." Read on!

The piece below is an introductory letter for a 10-poem portfolio for a poetry workshop course at the University of Kansas (KU).

12/13/2017

"The way she portrayed such daunting subjects with simplicity and beauty" was reflected in her sparse prose & compact lines, Elise Yeakley writes of Sabrina Benaim in her latest collection, "Depression & Other Magic Tricks." Check out our newest Interpunct contributor. Read on!

The holidays are a great time to buy a loved one a beautiful book of poetry. One of the most powerful poetry books of 2017 was Depression & Other Magic Tricks by up-and-comer Sabrina Benaim. Benaim...