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Interim: A Journal of Poetry & Poetics

A journal of contemporary poetics and poetry Interim is edited by Claudia Keelan and Andrew S. Nicholson.

The journal was founded in Seattle in 1944 by Wilbur Stevens, a contemporary of Theodore Roethke, and has been housed at UNLV since the 1950s. Contributors have included John Ashbery, Robin Bl**er, Robert Creeley, Brenda Hillman, Paul Hoover, Pierre Joris, Nathaniel Mackey, Laura Mullen, Alice Notley, Anne Waldman, Ronaldo Wilson,and William Carlos Williams, among many others.

09/19/2025

Submissions are welcome from September 1 through May 15. Now accepting poetry, essay, translation and hybrid submissions. See genre guidelines for details. We look forward to spending time with your work!

Issues are published quarterly online and annually in print. Interim was founded by poet Wilber Stevens in 1944 and is housed at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.
https://www.interimpoetics.org/

09/18/2025

Now open! Test Site Poetry Series 2025
Ends on Thu, Jan 15, 2026 11:59 PM

The Test Site Poetry Series is open to all writers who are seeking to place an unpublished manuscript. All submissions must be at least 48 pages. We will consider “New & Selected” or “Collected” manuscripts including work from previously published books. Interim: A Journal of Poetry and Poetics runs the annual Test Site Poetry Series contest. Each year, two books are chosen... Learn more at https://www.interimpoetics.org/ to submit.

07/08/2025

Congratulations, award winners! Announcing 2024 Test Site Poetry Series winner Lindsey Warren’s “Saint October” and Colin Drohan’s “It’s Late,” recipient of the 2024 Betsy Joiner Flanagan Award in Poetry. Titles will be published in 2025 by the University of Nevada Press, and winners will both receive $1,000 upon publication.

05/16/2025

Meet the Staff: Claudia Keelan
Editor

Poet, librettist, translator, and essayist Claudia Keelan published New and Selected Poems: We Step into the Sea (Barrow Street) in the spring of 2018, as well as a book of essays Ecstatic Émigré: An Ethics of Practice in the Poets on Poetry Series from the University of Michigan Press. Her honors include the Beatrice Hawley Award from Alice James Books for Utopic and the Jerome Shestack Prize from American Poetry Review. She is a Barrick Distinguished Scholar and Professor of English at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.

05/15/2025

Meet the Staff: Andrew S. Nicholson
Assistant Editor

Andrew is the author of A Lamp Brighter than Foxfire (Center for Literary Publishing). His poems have been published in magazines and journal including Colorado Review, The Bitter Oleander, and Eleven Eleven and were anthologized in New Poetry from the Midwest 2014 (New American Press). He is a former Schaeffer Fellow in Poetry and a former artist-in-residence at the Palazzo Rinaldi. He is an associate professor-in-residence at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.

05/14/2025

Meet the Staff: Madina Tuhbatullina
Managing Editor

Madina is a poet from Turkmenistan, whose work has been published or is forthcoming in The Indianapolis Review, SRPR, Tar River Poetry, Aster(ix), and elsewhere. Her poetry collection Tender Knots was named a finalist for the Black Lawrence Press Immigrant Writing Series. Currently, she is a Creative Writing MFA candidate at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.

05/13/2025

Meet the Staff: Anne Gerard Livingston
Editor-at-Large

Anne Gerard Livingston is a poet and educator born in Detroit, Michigan. Her work has been featured in, or is forthcoming from, Foglifter, Image, North American Review and Volume Poetry, among others. She spends her summers in Appalachia working with the Lamplight Summer Program.

05/12/2025

Meet the Staff: Arel Wiederholt Kassar
Prose Editor

Arel Wiederholt Kassar is the author of The Desert Spring Movement, forthcoming from Bench Editions in 2026. Find him online at arelwk.com

05/11/2025

Meet the Staff: Alex Blake
Web Editor

Alex Blake is a Las Vegas native with a passion for art and design. With a background in graphic design, marketing, and interior design, he is currently pursuing a Master of Architecture degree. A large focus of his work is a commitment to environmental sustainability. As a licensed architect, he aspires to specialize in adaptive reuse projects.

05/10/2025

Meet the Staff: Taylor Bradley Wright
Social Media / Marketing / Events

Taylor is currently pursuing her MFA in Creative Nonfiction at UNLV. In 2013, she earned her BA in Playwriting from the University of Iowa, and in 2023 was a Finalist for the Dramatists Guild National Fellowship.

For the past year, she’s been hosting, “Page to Stage: Performing for Writers” in partnership with The Black Mountain Institute (BMI). She is also a Contributing Editor for Witness Literary Magazine, and runs Social Media & Events for Interim Poetics. She’ll be attending FAWC in Provincetown, MA this summer. Her memoir, “There’s No Place Like House” was released in 2021, and her next book, "Los Angeles: A Eulogy” is forthcoming.

04/28/2025

From the Archives - Vol. 39.2
Excerpt From "To Bear” by Rita Mae Reese

to bear a child means to cover her in fur
provide a future of epic sleeps and a body
so utterly her own entire landscapes slide away
when she comes into view to bear arms
is the circus collar and chain around her neck
as she sits at her desk
the circle of snapping dogs growing tighter
to bear witness the silence of a bear
lumbering through devastation yet hopeful
that honey and rest are somewhere just ahead
her hope almost too much

04/24/2025

From the Archives - Vol. 40.1
Excerpt From "Imperium" by Bruce Bond

When I was small, I drew small people and gave to each the life

of the others, the sense of a solitary shared self that many make,

when gods above them flip the pages. I was learning how to think

of others when they are far away, to lay down a sketchpad of faces

in incremental variations, the closer the semblance of the moments

the stronger the illusion, the more fluid the movement of the lips.

And once, when I was small, a mother stepped out of the paper,

out of the steady brokenness that gives to each a silent language.

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