Too often I pick up a novel, dive a few chapters in when I have an hour, then haul it around with me for months on end without making progress. If you’re like me, you know that there are multitude frustrations accompanying this: the plot loses its urgency, characters lose familiarity, details that colored the text fall through the cracks. In short, the whole experience stales. Literary Journals offer contemporary choices that will host your interest no matter how unpredictable or packed your schedule might be. The average literary journal has well over a dozen authors featuring various genres... Read More

Not everyone loves literature in the loud and proud, raise your banner, “I was an English major!” kind of way. Many literature-lovers are the closeted bookworm variety; they are the escape artists who slip away to the inner worlds which literature so magnificently delivers. Outside of book clubs, groups formed specifically to turn reading into a casual, social activity, and classroom environments, spaces reserved for the academics to hold their brainy discursive discussions, there are few environments where one might exercise their love of literature in an interactive setting. The space you’re... Read More

How does a poet become a household name? This age-old question has no straightforward answer, though the oversimplified non-answer is: most don’t. The entirety of high schoolers’ exposure to poetry is too often spent on a few of the Romantics, differentiating between Shakespearean and Petrarchan sonnets, and tha-tha-tha-tha-tha-that’s all folks. Our literary canon is not known for its exhaustiveness nor its inclusion, and the vast majority carry on unaware of the full extent of its forgetfulness. Luckily enough, there are the few passionate, hard-working scholars who refuse to let some of... Read More