Literary Matters

Literary Matters ( is the online literary magazine of the Association of Literary Scholars, Critics, and Writers (

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Literary Matters 18.2 is now live!

Please read and enjoy this new issue, and share it with your friends, fellow readers and writers, loved ones, enemies, distant cousins, etc., etc.

We owe many thanks to everyone who made this issue possible, and good.

https://t.co/9zfMvT5j4U

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Alice’s recent Japanese poems in LM pair well w/@LI_ALSCW’s recent Japan Issue. + Elijah Blumov, our Translations Editor, released an ep. of his podcast Versecraft partly on haiku: “The Art of Epigram Pt. 2” (also including Basho translations by another LM editor, Ethan McGuire).

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10 Japanese poems by Princess Shikishi, translated by the ever charming Alice Allan, in the most recent issue of ‘Literary Matters.’

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10 Japanese poems by Princess Shikishi, translated by the ever charming Alice Allan, in the most recent issue of ‘Literary Matters.’

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Happy Mother’s Day!

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As Mother’s Day is Sunday, I thought of this section from our EIC’s first editor’s note (I think of it too, as my own daughter has been lately requesting books that “sound a certain way”). It’s early, but Happy Mother’s Day!

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A great place to start with the issue is our fearless leader Emily Grace’s first editor’s note as the new LM editor-in-chief: “This Seedling-Love” https://t.co/C0AIIN2nnl

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The first section of @fhmcclatchey’s translation of an Aztec poem, recently shared by @newversereview:

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Thank you, @newversereview, for featuring @LM_ALSCW & @LI_ALSCW in this month’s “Rusty Paperweight.” Readers, go check out NVR as well as the intriguing items they’ve linked to in the “RP.” You will find them worth your time, I think!
https://t.co/jHK6IMICe5

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But wait! Who is this suspicious character listed as the author this month? Ok, we have some investigating to do. It appears he is sharing himself much too freely.

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Thank you, @newversereview, for featuring @LM_ALSCW & @LI_ALSCW in this month’s “Rusty Paperweight.” Readers, go check out NVR as well as the intriguing items they’ve linked to in the “RP.” You will find them worth your time, I think!
https://t.co/jHK6IMICe5

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LITERARY MATTERS--sister journal of LITERARY IMAGINATOIN--issue 18.2 is now live. @LM_ALSCW https://t.co/qCfA4RViXv

[Dan Power @therealdanpower]

Glad to have a poem in here! 🥳

[Lee Oser @radical__middle]

NEW LITERARY MATTERS
Stay tuned for further ALSCW developments!

https://t.co/mQ9WAtsOqf

[Tyndall Brandon @TyndallOBrandon]

I’m grateful to Literary Matters for publishing my sonnet sequence, “An Odyssey Triptych.” Many thanks to Emily Grace, Cameron Clark, and the rest of the team at @LM_ALSCW! I’ve attached the first poem in the sequence. The rest are available in the new issue, along with a host of wonderful poems, translations, and essays.
https://t.co/ftpMYEESao

[Simeon Berry @simeonberry]

“you thought / you were so smart, and in a way you were, / because you loved poetry and Beethoven and apples / but why did it take you so long to learn to drink coffee / and eat breakfast?” —Barbara Hamby @LM_ALSCW https://t.co/NpgiLlJPWi

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Literary Imagination is the flagship journal of the Association of Literary Scholars, Critics, and Writers. Please see the call for papers for our 2026 conference, taking place Oct 22-26 at Johns Hopkins University, in Baltimore: https://t.co/Dsh7zWfcBt

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We kick off season 5 of the Hopkins Press Podcast with @LI_ALSCW editor Paul Franz chatting with Ryan Hintzman about the influence of picturesque Waka Bay on traditional Japanese poetics

https://t.co/drYZ8yP3tx

Listen & subscribe with your favorite podcast app!

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The editors for issue 18.2 are:
Emily Grace, Editor-in-Chief
Cameron Clark, Poetry Editor
Elijah Blumov, Translations Editor
Ethan McGuire, Contributing Editor
Jeffrey Peters, Production Editor

Thanks, again, to our editors, our contributors, and, most importantly, our readers!

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Literary Matters 18.2 is now live!

Please read and enjoy this new issue, and share it with your friends, fellow readers and writers, loved ones, enemies, distant cousins, etc., etc.

We owe many thanks to everyone who made this issue possible, and good.

https://t.co/9zfMvT5j4U

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…@fhmcclatchey, @BobSchechter, T.R. Hummer, @kirstennorrie, Nicholas Pierce, @taylorlight__, Thomas Mixon, Kristján Norge, @belindarule, @ihatemattwall, James Bradley Wells, Keir Willett, Michael Autrey, @AmitMajmudar, @AHeavyMetalPen , @timtibbitts, @ethomasfinan, and Eva Wynn

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