At Length

Online venue for poetry, prose, music, art, & photography open to possibilities shorter forms (like you, dear Twitter) preclude.

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Dear At Length Readers, that is. Forgive my typo in our final post. I'm rushing to get off this fiery trash island of tech bros and Trumpists.

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Dear At Length's Readers: we're removing ourselves from Twitter/X because @elonmusk supports a man who sought to violently overthrow the results of the 2020 election. (Among many other offenses.)

Find us on Blue Sky, ya'll: @atlengthmag.bsky.social.

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Friends & Readers: are any of you proficient in WordPress web design? At Length could occasionally use the careful attention of a pro! Please message us if interested! Thanks.

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"[W]hat am I to do / about beauty, about / my fear that beauty // has made me arrange / every experience in a word / and image too neatly // for them to bear / much semblance to life," @PaisleyRekdal writes in her wonderful long poem, "Whistlejacket."

https://t.co/Y3BTzhBFVy

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@DorothyPS Sure, that's reasonable! We'll add it today to the submission guidelines.

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Dear Writers: At Length has updated its submissions guidelines in Fiction. We do not accept genre fiction of young adult fiction and have clarified this on our new website. Thank you.

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@DorothyPS Unfortunately, we do not have the resources to pay our contributors.

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Did you know that Terrance Hayes drew pictures while writing American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassins, a haunting collection of 70 poems written in the wake of the 2016 election?

We're happy to feature them in our new From the Archives section.

https://t.co/Xp58bNgDra

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We were thrilled when Jonathan Farmer, the former EIC of At Length, sent us this essay on Elizabeth Bishop. Erudite and smartly argued--but not beholden to usual strictures of peer review--it's a model of the kind of criticism we'd like to publish.

https://t.co/IKj73L2CJM

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One of the delights (and challenges) in redesigning At Length was preserving the journal's 20-year archive of exceptional writing. Take Page Hill Starzinger's lovely poem, "Gest," which explores her parents' decline in a mixture of long and short lines.

https://t.co/luUaPT0TnJ

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As we enter the summer internship season, I'm reminded of how essential @Carson_Wirtz, @atlengthmag's intern, was to rebooting the journal. Thanks, @WabashCollege, for supporting Carson, who's now a Managing Editor at a national literary journal!

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“[H]ow do they bear this heat Who / knows who can say what will change,” Joanna Klink writes in "Sarracenia," as she explores our climate crisis and her relationship with her father in language that is colloquial & catastrophic, meditative & urgent.

https://t.co/fBq49pZeMa

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At Length would like to announce the addition of a Fiction Editor, Preeta Samarasan, author of Evening Is the Whole Day and Tale of the Dreamer's Son. We're so grateful to have Preeta aboard!

https://t.co/Imcg3Jkwry

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Oh, and we're open to submissions during the summer of 2024. If that's your jam, swing on over to our Submission Guidelines. Thanks!

https://t.co/bMx0dsGVBG

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We're grateful to Jonathan Farmer for trusting us with @atlengthmag and @Carson_Wirtz, our one-time summer intern (@WabashCollege) and now Managing Editor for getting to this moment!

https://t.co/q3lT9taFSX

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At Length is a literary journal for long-form writing--including translation! Take a peek at our 20-year archive, free and searchable online.

https://t.co/q3lT9taFSX

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We're thrilled to announce the reboot of https://t.co/k8SWamoeKE, under new editors @derek_mong & Anne Fisher, with new long poems by Joanna Klink and @PaisleyRekdal, and an essay on Bishop by former EIC Jonathan Farmer!

https://t.co/k8SWamoeKE

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We just sent out our first acceptance note for At Length, a solicited poem, and we can't wait to share it with readers. Coming to a search engine near you.

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Happy Friday! Today we highlight Tayler Heuston’s short fiction piece, “Ghost in the Graveyard.” We enjoy this story’s captivating premise, and its ability to keep the reader guessing as to what will happen next. Be sure to read at the following link: https://t.co/amuYHPDa8V

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Today we would like to highlight David M. De León’s poem, “The Cats of Old San Juan.” An equally enlightening and powerful piece, it is just as quick and intelligent. Check it out at the following link: https://t.co/N90PUPNMKs