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Editor
Keith Newton
Fiction editor
Eugene Lim
Art direction and production
Andrew Ackermann
Silent partner
Kristen Naiman
Medical unit
Deepak Nijhawan
Evening entertainment
Charleston Chew
Mosley Zimmerman
Papa Bear Cynthia Arrieu-King is an assistant professor of creative writing at Stockton College. Her book People Are Tiny in Paintings of China will be published by Octopus Books in 2010.Ana Božičević was born in Zagreb, Croatia, in 1977. She emigrated to New York in 1997. Stars of the Night Commute (Tarpaulin Sky Press, 2009) is her first book of poems. Her fifth chapbook, Depth Hoar, will be published by Cinematheque Press in 2010. With Amy King, she co-curates the Stain of Poetry reading series in Brooklyn. She works at the Center for the Humanities of the Graduate Center, CUNY, and lives in Huntington, N.Y. Edmond Caldwell writes fiction and drama, and lives in Boston. His work has appeared in DIAGRAM, SmokeLong Quarterly, Word Riot, 3:AM Magazine, Sein und Werden, among others, and his short play, “The Liquidation of the Cohn Estate,” was produced in the 2009 Boston Theater Marathon. “Return to the Chateau” is a chapter from his novel-in-stories, Human Wishes. Susan Daitch is the author of two novels, L.C. (Lannan Foundation Selection and NEA Heritage Award) and The Colorist, and a collection of short stories, Storytown. Her work has appeared in Conjunctions, The Brooklyn Rail, Bomb, Ploughshares, Failbetter, Tin House, McSweeney’s, The Pushcart Prize Anthology, and The Norton Anthology of Postmodern American Fiction. Her novel The Dreyfus Book will be published by City Lights later this year. She can be found at www.susandaitch.com. Luca Dipierro is a writer, visual artist, and filmmaker born in Italy and living in Brooklyn. His short stories have been published in New York Tyrant, Lamination Colony, Gigantic, Everyday Genius, No Colony, and elsewhere. His latest films are the documentaries I Will Smash You and 60 Writers/60 Places, and the full-length cut-out animation Dieci Teste. His art has been exhibited in galleries in the U.S. and Italy. Luca’s website is www.lucadipierro.com. For some biscotti go to blackbiscotti.blogspot.com. His life is based on a true story. Brandon Downing’s books include Lake Antiquity (Fence, 2009), Dark Brandon (Faux Press, 2005), and The Shirt Weapon (Germ, 2002). Dark Brandon: Eternal Classics was released on DVD in 2007. Photographic work can be seen at www.brandondowning.org, while recent video projects can be found at www.youtube.com/user/bdown68. Farrah Field’s poems have appeared or are forthcoming in many publications, including Mississippi Review, Typo, Pool, La Petite Zine, Ekleksographia, Effing Magazine, and Ploughshares. Rising, her first book of poems, won Four Way Books’ 2007 Levis Prize. She lives in Brooklyn and blogs at adultish.blogspot.com. Craig Foltz is a multimedia artist and writer whose work has appeared in Chicago Review, Octopus, Ninth Letter, and others. His first book of poetry, The States, is out from Ugly Duckling Presse. He currently lives and works on the slopes of a dormant volcano in New Zealand. Critical Focus? Depends. Mist? Well, of course. More info: www.craigfoltz.com. A.D. Jameson is a writer, video artist, teacher, and performer. His fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in Denver Quarterly, Fiction International, The Brooklyn Rail, Mississippi Review Online, elimae, Caketrain, PANK, Mad Hatters’ Review, Action, Yes, and elsewhere. He has two books forthcoming later this year: a novel, Giant Slugs, from Lawrence & Gibson, and a prose collection, Amazing Adult Fantasy, from Mutable Sound. In his spare time he contributes to the group literary blog Big Other. Matthew Kirkpatrick’s writing has appeared recently or is forthcoming in Conjunctions, PANK, Action, Yes, and Hobart, among other journals. He lives in Salt Lake City where he is working on a PhD in literature and creative writing. He co-edits Barrelhouse and can be found on the internet at www.mattkirkpatrick.com. Matthew Klane is co-editor and founder of Flim Forum Press. His book is B______ Meditations (Stockport Flats, 2008). Recent work can be found online at Absent, Open Letters Monthly, Otoliths, and Word For/Word. He currently lives and writes in Iowa City. Patrick Morrissey’s poems have appeared in Denver Quarterly, Colorado Review, New American Writing, Typo, and Tarpaulin Sky, and his chapbook Transparency was published by Cannibal Books in 2009. His critical writing has previously appeared in Harp & Altar. He lives in New York. Michael Newton’s gallery reviews appear regularly in Harp & Altar. Michael O’Brien is the author of Sleeping & Waking (Flood Editions, 2007) and Sills: Selected Poems 1960-1999 (Salt Publishing, 2009). He lives in New York. Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi received her MFA in fiction from Brown University. Her work is forthcoming or can be found in Sleepingfish, Paul Revere’s Horse, Xcp: Cross Cultural Poetics, Encyclopedia Vol. 2 (F-K), and State of the Union: 50 Political Poems (Wave Books, 2008). She lives in Providence and teaches literature and creative writing at Rhode Island School of Design. Alejandra Pizarnik was born in Buenos Aires in 1936. She studied philosophy and literature at the University of Buenos Aires and later pursued interests in painting and religion. Her books include the poetry collections Works and Nights, Extraction of the Stone of Folly, and The Musical Inferno, as well as the prose work The Bloody Countess. In 1969 she was awarded a Guggenheim fellowship, and in 1971 a Fulbright scholarship. She died in 1972 of a drug overdose. Brett Price is an editor of Forklift, Ohio: A Journal of Poetry, Cooking, and Light Industrial Safety and the author of Trouble With Mapping (Flying Guillotine, 2008), a chapbook. He lives and writes in Brooklyn. Jason Stumpf is the author of A Cloud of Witnesses (forthcoming from Quale Press). He is also the translator of Aurora by Pura Lopez-Colome and The moon ain’t nothing but a broken dish by Luis Felipe Fabre. He is on the faculty of the Walnut Hill School for the Arts. Jared White’s chapbook Yellowcake was included in the hand-sewn anthology Narwhal from Cannibal Books. He has recently published in Coconut, Laurel Review, and Boog City, with other work forthcoming in Action, Yes. His essays have appeared in past issues of Harp & Altar, as well as Open Letters Monthly, and he blogs irregularly at jaredswhite.blogspot.com. He lives in Brooklyn near two bridges. Harp & Altar is a literary magazine published in Brooklyn, New York. We accept unsolicited submissions of poetry and fiction by email only. Please send all submissions attached in a single Word document to editors [at] harpandaltar [dot] com. For essays, reviews, and other critical or nonfiction writing, please send a query before submitting any work. Enter either Poetry, Fiction, or Query in the subject line of the email, along with your last name.
Please note that Harp & Altar will not be reading submissions of either poetry or fiction from May 1 to Sept. 1, 2010. All submissions sent during this period will need to be re-submitted after Sept. 1. June 19, 2010
The Yardmeter Editions reading series celebrates the launch of The Harp & Altar Anthology and the magazine's seventh issue, with readings by
Ana BožičevićDan Hoy
Eileen Myles
Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi
with artwork by
Lorene Taurerewa
and music from
Miracles
6:30 PM at Shelton Walsmith's studio
267 Douglass St., Brooklyn
Yardmeter Editions
The Harp & Altar Anthology
Harp & Altar and Ellipsis Press announce the publication of The Harp & Altar Anthology, a collection of poetry and prose from the magazine’s first six issues, edited by Keith Newton and Eugene Lim.
See the Ellipsis Press website for more information and order a copy now: Ellipsis Press
BUY April 8 to 10, 2010
With the book in hand, Harp & Altar and Ellipsis Press will be at the 2010 AWP Bookfair in Denver, Colorado, from April 8 to 10. Come by the Ellipsis Press table and join us at the Historic Falcon event on Thursday, April 8, where Harp & Altar poets Julia Cohen, Kate Greenstreet, Justin Marks, and Linnea Ogden will be reading.
Historic Falcon
Thursday, April 8
6:30 PM at Mercury Cafe
2199 California St., Denver
Feb. 13, 2009
Harp & Altar and Mad Hatters' Review present readings by four fiction writers:
Joshua Cohen
Tim Horvath
Joanna Howard
Mary Mackey
7 PM at KGB
85 E. 4th St., 2nd Fl, New York Dec. 6 & 7, 2008
Look for the Ellipsis Press table at the New York Center for Independent Publishing's 21st Annual Indie & Small Press Book Fair.
11 AM - 5 PM at the Library of the General Society of Mechanics and Tradesmen
20 W. 44th St., New York
Oct. 16, 2008
Ellipsis Press celebrates the release of the novels Waste and Fog & Car, with readings by
Eugene Marten
Eugene Lim
7:30 PM at Freebird Books
123 Columbia St., Brooklyn
May 17, 2008
Cannibal, Harp & Altar, Saltgrass, and Tight host the Poetry Goose Up! at East Coast Aliens, presented by the Burning Chair reading series, with readings by
Ana Božičević
John Coletti
Kate Greenstreet
Sarah Girdley
Katy Henriksen
Shannon Jonas
Jennifer Kronovet
Mark Lamoureux
Timothy Liu
Chris Martin
Jess Mynes
Cate Peebles
Christopher Rizzo
Matthew Rohrer
Frank Sherlock
Joanna Sondheim
Shanxing Wang
Rebecca Wolff
and music from
The Hadacol
and projections by
Stephen Hilger
3 PM to 8 PM at East Coast Aliens
216 Franklin St., Brooklyn
Doors 2:30 PM, $6
Ellipsis Press
Ellipsis Press, a new publisher of experimental fiction co-founded by Harp & Altar's fiction editor, is now accepting manuscript submissions. Information and guidelines are available at www.ellipsispress.com.
Dec. 2, 2007
Harp & Altar celebrates the release of the third issue, with fiction readings by
Lynn Crawford
Corey Frost
Johannah Rodgers
5 PM at Unnameable Books
456 Bergen St., Brooklyn
Sept. 16, 2007
Shane Book reads as part of the Brooklyn's Own event at the second annual Brooklyn Book Festival, along with readers from A Public Space, Tin House, and Archipelago Books. 5 PM in the Community Room at Brooklyn Borough Hall
April 29, 2007
The Marquise Dance Hall Poetry Series celebrates the release of the second issue, with readings by Stefania Heim Thomas Kane 7 PM at Marquise Dance Hall 291 Grand St., Brooklyn
Oct. 26, 2006 A launch party for the release of the first issue, with readings by Andrea Baker Jessica Baran Michael Zeiss 7 PM at Triskelion Arts 118 N. 11th St., 3rd Fl, Brooklyn
artwork credit:
Brandon Downing, In Pompeii, 2006, published in Lake Antiquity (Fence Books, 2009). Courtesy the artist and Fence Books. ________________________________ Harp & Altar ventures into the brave new world of print with The Harp & Altar Anthology! With work selected from the first six issues of the magazine, the anthology includes more than 65 authors. See the Ellipsis Press website for more information and order a copy now: Ellipsis Press
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