The Yale Literary Magazine

excellent poetry, prose, & visual art by Yale undergrads. The oldest literary review in the United States, debatably.

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@theyalelitmag is doing a limited-run broadside for the spring 2020 issue. included are works by @YPEIdwighthall's students. register for your copy here (it's first come, first serve): https://t.co/LQoO8qpBE9

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We are running a limited number of broadsides for our Spring 2020 issue. If you would like to receive one, please fill out the form below! https://t.co/Dz9x1xpHsM

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If you have any questions, contact our editor-in-chief, Ananya Kumar-Banerjee (@anannavia) , at [email protected].

We look forward to seeing your work!

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Submissions for the fall 2020 issue of the Lit are now open. We're accepting previously unpublished poetry & prose (both loosely defined), translations of any length, and visual art in any medium.

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Save each submission as TITLEEOFPIECE_GENREOFPIECE. Omit your name from all pieces you submit (document title included). For written submissions, please designate the work as poetry or prose in the document title.

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More info about the event (including the stream link) can be found at the FB event page: https://t.co/WrepRtgo4S

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On Oct. 21 at 6 pm EDT, the Yale Literary Magazine will be hosting a conversation with poets @asgharthegrouch and @Danez_Smif with support from the Elizabethan Club's Maynard Mack Fund and the Poynter Fellowship at Yale. Submit your questions here: https://t.co/E48u606Ml9

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Particularly grateful, today, to have helped make a home for the works for Carl, Adrian and Justin -- students of @YPEIdwighthall's Creative Writing Workshop -- in the @theyalelitmag's Spring 2020 issue. Read their works here: https://t.co/92hIBOwiEy

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We are so excited to announce the new Lit Board for the 2020-2021 school year! Please check out the positions on our website and feel free to reach out to anyone on the team
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Introducing Black in the Lit: a feature highlighting work by Black artists and authors from our archives. Please click to learn more and check out these pieces. Look out here, too, as we’ll be posting excerpts from each work in the weeks to come.

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After some consideration, we will continue to produce a spring issue — on the web in May, in print in September.

Submissions season feels like a lifetime ago, but we hope that the art we’re gathering from the community might now serve as a source of joy & solace. Sending love.

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"I have acquired a hammock. Don’t freak out. It’s just a normal hammock, except it’s gorgeous."

—E.C., from "Prone," in our Fall 2019 issue.

https://t.co/kTLZHkuu93

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"It was summer and I
was working for next to nothing
when in a gift store I saw him
kissing a dolphin."

—Andrew Ballard, from "Nestor and the Dolphin," in our Fall 2019 issue.

https://t.co/gPRE2UZTub

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"let me tell you a story that i’m hearing for the first time, about a town on the very top of the known world. up where the thermosphere becomes projection space becomes just space."

—Aparna Nair-Kanneganti, from "poem for A and B" | Fall 2019 Issue.

https://t.co/SQeHJrTqck

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"I know / all that I am / to you / is a bleeding door / to a flooded house / I no longer possess / language"

—Kamau Walker, from "THE GHOST OF MAC MILLER SPEAKS AND I DIDN’T KNOW I LOVED HIM UNTIL THE GRIEF SET IN," in our Spring 2019 issue.

https://t.co/4sZPcCq4pq

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"Be careful where you cry, Ruoji. You don’t want to stain the shirt."

—Ruoji Guo, from "a man on the bus looks at me," in our Fall 2019 issue.

https://t.co/EzhvtQaUdl

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"And in the Old City skies,
A kite.
And at the thread’s end,
A boy"

—Yehuda Amichai, from "Jerusalem," translated by Daniel Yadin in our Spring 2019 issue.

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LOVE DIAGRAM ONE, by Ronan Day-Lewis, in our Fall 2019 issue.

https://t.co/u21RLO6Xl5

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WHO HAS REMAINED, by Alex Taranto, published in our Fall 2019 issue.

https://t.co/DVNGfOTkdQ