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"Periodically Speaking"

The New York Public Library and The Council for Literary Magazines and Presses (CLMP) present "Periodically Speaking," a new reading series providing a major new venue for emerging writers to present their work while highlighting the riches of literary magazines in New York City and the magazine collections of The New York Public Library. Each event focuses on a theme and presents writers from three influential literary magazines, introduced by their publisher/editors.

Periodically Speaking:Literary Magazine Editors Introduce Emerging Writersat The New York Public Library - October 13, 2009 Audio (.mp3) Video (.mp4)

• Vestal Review editors Mark Budman and Susan O'Neill introduce fiction writer Lincoln Michel.
• Low Rent editor Jason Koo introduces poet Leigh Stein.
• Tin House editor Rob Spillman introduces nonfiction writer Montana Wojczuk.

Periodically Speaking - June 09, 2009 Audio (.mp3)

• Habitus: A Diaspora Journal editor Joshua Ellison introduces fiction writer Leonid Kostyukov and translator Mariya Gusrev.
• Tantalum editor Yasmine Alwan introduces poet Mina Pam Dick.
• Gigantic editor Ann DeWitt introduces fiction writer Adam Wilson.

The Magathon - May 30, 2009 Audio (.mp3) Video (.mp4)
This celebration of literary magazines and independent publishing is in its eighth year at the Library! Leading literary magazine editors read favorite selections from their latest issues:

• Matvei Yankelevich reading from 6x6
• Lynne Potts reading from AGNI
• Peter Selgin reading “Out of the Deep Freeze,” fiction by Patrick Schultz, from Alimentum
• Tracy Grinnell reading from Aufgabe
• Ronna Wineberg reading “The Weight of Absence,” a poem by Judy Katz, and “Made of Metal and Constructed with Fire,” fiction by Katherine Ellis, from Bellevue Literary Review
• Joe W. Bratcher reading “The Pretty Redhead,” a poem by Guillaume Apollinaire (translated from the French by Lynn Hoggard), from The Dirty Goat
• Rebecca Wolff reading from Fence
• Mitch Wieland reading from The Idaho Review
• Jessica Fjeld reading two poems by Emily Toder, from jubilat
• Laura Boss reading from the Michael Benedikt Memorial Issue of Lips
• Nicole Steinberg reading poems by Paige Ackerson-Kiely, Heather Christle, and Mary Ruefle, from LIT Magazine
• Jenine Gordon Bockman reading from Literal Latté
• Minna Proctor reading from The Literary Review
• Mira Ptacin reading the poems “The Richness of Loss,” by Linda Gregg, and “The Orchard Picked Over,” by M.R.B. Chelko, from Lumina
• Eugenia Macer-Story reading “A Startling Success,” non-fiction by Dr. Stanhope Templeman Speer, from Magick Mirror Communications
• Hannah Tinti reading from One Story
• Meshakai Wolf reading from The Open Face Sandwich
• Lee Griffith reading “My Mother Discusses John Irving,” non-fiction by Dan O’Brien, and “Delusions of Grandeur,” a poem by Christina Stoddard, from The Pinch
• Stephanie Volmer reading “Not Wanting Things,” a memoir excerpt by Jane Miller, from Raritan
• Abigail Holstein reading “The First Thanksgiving,” fiction by Julia Felsenthal, from Saltgrass
• Mariya Gusev reading from St. Petersburg Review

Periodically Speaking - May 12, 2009 Audio (.mp3) Video (.mp4)

• St. Petersburg Review editor Elizabeth Hodges introduces fiction writer Ken Calhoun.
• The Manhattan Review editor Philip Fried introduces poet Ian Brand.
• The Reading Room editor Barbara Solomon introduces nonfiction writer April Deller.

Periodically Speaking - April 14, 2009     Press Release    Audio (.mp3)

• Redivider editor Joe Gallagher introduces fiction writer Rachel Cantor.
• Broken Bridge Review editor Brad Davis introduces poet Dan Manchester.
• Canteen editor Stephen Pierson introduces nonfiction writer Justin Taylor.

Periodically Speaking - December 09, 2008 Audio (.mp3)

• Salt Hill editors Aaron Chambers and Kayla Blatchley introduce fiction writer Phil LaMarche.
• H.O.W. Journal editor Honor Moore introduces poet Laura Cronk.
• Raritan: A Quarterly Review editor Jackson Lears introduces nonfiction writer Revan Schendler.

Periodically Speaking - November 04, 2008     Press Release    Audio (.mp3)

• Many Mountains Moving editor Thaddeus Rutkowski introduces fiction writer Jon Swan.
• Washington Square editor Levi Rubeck introduces poet Elisa Gabbert.
• Bidoun editor Michael Vazquez introduces nonfiction writer Anand Balakrishnan.

Periodically Speaking - October 14, 2008
Literary Magazines take center stage in The DeWitt Wallace Periodical Room for Periodically Speaking. Come hear Editors Celia Johnson and Maria Gagliano ( Slice) introduce William Giraldi, Autumn Kindelspire ( Inkwell )introduce Eugenie Juliet Theall and Daniel Shapiro ( Review: Literature and Arts of the Americas) introduce Araceli Tinajero.

The Magathon - June 14, 2008
The year 2008 marked the library's 6th time hosting the Magathon. Speakers included John Tytell, from American Book Review; Caron Andregg, from Cider Press Review; Martin Tucker, from Confrontation; Alice E. Rogoff, from Haight Ashbury Literary Journal; Diana McDougle, from KNOCK; Jenine Bockman, from Literal Latté; Carol Novack, from Mad Hatters' Review; Todd Zuniga, from Opium Magazine; Kathleen Volk Miller, from Painted Bride Quarterly; Herbert Leibowitz, from Parnassus: Poetry in Review; John Holliday, from Salt Hill; Jeanne Leiby, from The Southern Review; Anne Hays, from Storyscape Journal; and Dan Friedman, from Zeek: A Jewish Journal of Thought and Culture.

Periodically Speaking - June 10, 2008     Press Release    Audio (.mp3)

• Cincinnati Review editor Brock Clarke introduces fiction writer Kevin Wilson.
• Mosaic editor Ron Kavanaugh introduces poet Tara Betts.
• Antioch Review senior editor Robert Fogarty introduces nonfiction writer Maureen McCoy.

Periodically Speaking - May 13, 2008 Audio (.mp3)

• One Story editor Hannah Tinti introduces fiction writer Patrick Ryan.
• Aufgabe editor Paul Foster Johnson introduces poet Evelyn Reilly.
• Epiphany senior editor Willard Cook introduces nonfiction writer Anna Steegmann.

Periodically Speaking - April 08, 2008 Audio (.mp3)

• The Literary Review editor Walter Cummins introduces fiction writer Geronimo Madrid.
• Subtropics editor Sidney Wade introduces poet Michael Loughran.
• The Hudson Review editor Paula Deitz introduces nonfiction writer Barbara Wasserman.

Periodically Speaking - December 11, 2007     Press Release   

• American Short Fiction editor Rebecca Bengal introduces fiction writer Laura van den Berg.
• The New York Quarterly editor Raymond Hammond introduces poet Ira Joe Fisher.
• AGNI senior editor William Pierce introduces nonfiction writer Ben Miller.

Periodically Speaking - November 13, 2007     Press Release   

• The Iowa Review editor David Hamilton introduces fiction writer Stellar Kim.
• Memorious: A Journal of New Verse and Fiction editor Robert Arnold introduces poet Beth Woodcome.
• PEN America editor M Mark introduces nonfiction writer Sarah Messer.

Periodically Speaking - October 09, 2007     Press Release    Audio (.mp3)

• Stone Canoe editor Robert M. Colley introduces fiction writer Daniel Torday.
• New England Review editor Stephen Donadio introduces poet Patrick Phillips.
• VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly editor Erin McKean introduces nonfiction writer Daniel Krieger.

Periodically Speaking - June 12, 2007     Press Release   

• Boston Review editor Junot Díaz introduces fiction writer Patricia Engel.
• Gulf Coast: A Journal of Literature and Fine Arts editor Nick Flynn introduces poet Valzhyna Mort.
• The Crier editor Doree Shafrir introduces nonfiction writer Brendan Greaves.

The Magathon - June 09, 2007
Featured literary magazines include A Public Space, Alimentum, Antioch Review, Habitus: A Diaspora Journal, Lungfull! Magazine, Mid-American Review, New York Quarterly, Opium Magazine, One Story, The Reading Room, Redivider, Short Story, Stone Canoe, Tantalum, Tuesday; An Art Project, Waterways, and zingmagazine.

Periodically Speaking - May 08, 2007     Press Release   

• The Kenyon Review editor David Lynn introduces fiction writer Brad Kessler.
• Yale Review editor J.D. McClatchy introduces poet Meghan O'Rourke.
• The Chattahoochee Review editor Marc Fitten introduces nonfiction writer Courtney Eldridge.

Periodically Speaking - April 10, 2007     Press Release   

• Granta editor Matt Weiland introduces nonfiction writer Saïd Sayrafiezadeh.
• The Southern Review editor Bret Lott introduces poet Jane Springer.
• The Gettysburg Review editor Peter Stitt introduces fiction writer Benjamin Hedin.

Periodically Speaking - December 12, 2006     Press Release   

• The Georgia Review editor Stephen Corey introduces fiction writer Anna Solomon.
• Harvard Review poetry editor Don Share introduces poet John Hennessey.
• Creative Nonfiction editor Lee Gutkind introduces nonfiction writer Meredith Hall.

Periodically Speaking - November 14, 2006     Press Release   

• The Virginia Quarterly Review editor Ted Genoways introduces fiction writer James P. Othmer.
• Soft Targets editor Dan Hoy introduces poet Paul Killebrew.
• Columbia: A Journal of Literature & Art editor Thom Blaylock introduces nonfiction writer Meehan Crist.

Periodically Speaking - October 10, 2006     Press Release   

• McSweeney's editor Eli Horowitz introduces nonfiction writer Kevin Moffett.
• jubilat editor Robert Casper introduces poet Erica Kaufman.
• Ploughshares assistant fiction editor Jay Baron Nicorvo introduces fiction writer Katherine Bell.

Periodically Speaking - June 13, 2006

• The Paris Review editor Philip Gourevitch introduces fiction writer Benjamin Percy.
• Bellevue Literary Review editor Frances Richey introduces poet Judy Katz.
• Alimentum editor Paulette Licitra introduces nonfiction writer Margaret MacInnis.

The Magathon - June 10, 2006
Leading literary magazines editors read favorite selections from their latest issues. This celebration of literary magazines is in its fifth year at the Library.

Periodically Speaking - May 09, 2006     Press Release   

• The Believer editor Heidi Julavits introduces nonfiction writer Ginger Strand.
• Salmagundi editor Peg Boyers introduces poet Maggie Dietz.
• Pindeldyboz editor Whitney Pastorek introduces fiction writer Jami Attenberg.

Periodically Speaking - April 11, 2006

• A Public Space editor Brigid Hughes introduces nonfiction writer Ian Chillag.
• Land-Grant College Review editor Josh Melrod introduces fiction writer Jim Hanas.
• LIT editor Justin Marks introduces poet Katie Degentesh.

Speaking on Tasting - December 13, 2005
The readings will feature poetry, fiction, and creative non-fiction that address 'tasting' in different and innovative ways. Features Max Ruback from Zing Magazine, Michelle Wildgen from Tin House, and Michael Graves from Mad Hatters' Review.

Speaking on Listening - November 08, 2005
The readings will feature poetry, fiction, and creative non-fiction that address 'listening' in different and innovative ways. Readings from n+1, Hudson Review, and failbetter.

Speaking on Seeing - October 11, 2005
The themes for the fall series of readings focus on the senses, starting off on October 11th with poetry, fiction, and creative non-fiction that address 'seeing' in different and innovative ways. Readings from Literal Latte, Summerset Review and Hanging Loose.

Inner Space - June 14, 2005
Each event focuses on a theme and presents writers from three influential literary magazines, introduced by their publisher/editors.

Translations from the Axis of Evil - May 10, 2005     Press Release   
Writers and editors from Words Without Borders, Bomb and Rattapallax.

Talking New York - April 12, 2005     Press Release   
Writers and editors from Open City, Unpleasant Event Schedule, and The Hudson Review.