Literary Magazine Editors Introducing Emerging Writers at The New York Public Library

The Council of Literary Magazines and Presses [clmp] and The New York Public Library present Periodically Speaking, a reading series providing a major venue for emerging writers to present their work while emphasizing the diversity of America’s literary magazines and the magazine collections of The New York Public Library. Each event presents writers from three influential literary magazines—one poet, one fiction writer, one nonfiction writer—introduced by their editors.

Program II
Tuesday, November 13th, 6 – 7:30 pm
DeWitt Wallace Periodical Room, The New York Public Library,
Humanities and Social Sciences Library at Fifth Avenue and 42nd
(Please use Fifth Avenue entrance; admittance is free)

The Iowa Review

With 2007, The Iowa Review enters its 37th year of continuous publication. They select most of their content from the several thousand unsolicited manuscripts that arrive each year from throughout the country and abroad. They take their mission to be nudging along American literature, to be local but not provincial, to be experimental but not without love for literary traditions.                           
Editor David Hamilton introduces fiction writer Stellar Kim. 

Memorious: A Journal of New Verse and Fiction
“I remember him (I scarcely have the right to use this ghostly verb; only one man on earth deserved the right, and he is dead), I remember him with a dark passionflower in his hand, looking at it as no one has ever looked at such a flower, though they might look from the twilight of day until the twilight of night, for a whole life long.”
—Jorge Luis Borges, “Funes el Memorioso”                                                                                                        
Editor Robert Arnold introduces poet Beth Woodcome.       

PEN America

PEN America is a semi-annual collection of fiction, poetry, conversations, essays, drama, and commentary. Past contributors include Salman Rushdie, Mary Gaitskill, Sonia Sanchez, Paul Auster, and many others. It is published by PEN American Center.
Editor M Mark introduces nonfiction writer Sarah Messer.

Please look for Program III on December 11th. Editors and writers include: Rebecca Bengal, American Short Fiction, introducing Laura van den Berg; Raymond Hammond, New York Quarterly, introducing Ira Joe Fisher; and William Pierce, AGNI introducing Ben Miller.

This series is made possible in part by support from the New York State Council for the Arts, a state agency; Friends of [clmp], a diverse group of individuals committed to supporting independent literary publishing, and The New York Public Library.