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Interim: A Journal of Poetry & Poetics A journal of contemporary poetics and poetry Interim is edited by Claudia Keelan and Andrew S. Nicholson.

The journal was founded in Seattle in 1944 by Wilbur Stevens, a contemporary of Theodore Roethke, and has been housed at UNLV since the 1950s. Contributors have included John Ashbery, Robin Bl**er, Robert Creeley, Brenda Hillman, Paul Hoover, Pierre Joris, Nathaniel Mackey, Laura Mullen, Alice Notley, Anne Waldman, Ronaldo Wilson,and William Carlos Williams, among many others.

12/09/2024

Call for submissions: The Unwanted.
Deadline: April 1.

Interim is seeking work that explores the feeling of being unwanted in a social or a physical space. We want to hear speakers, narrators, and characters whose existence inconveniences, annoys, burdens, disturbs, and/or disrupts the structures they live in. Have you ever felt that the world does not want you to exist? We want to feel what it means to be a clog in the machine with or without intention. We are particularly interested in the emotional aspect of being unwanted in social, cultural, political, and economic structures in the US and around the world. We also welcome work that focuses on the importance of “the unwanted” in the larger context of historical and societal change.

Genre-Specific Submission Guidelines:

Prose: one story or essay up to 5000 words

Poetry: 3-6 pages, all in the same document

Visual Art: up to 3 pieces, all in the same document

Translations: please include the original version of the text alongside your translation, along with permissions whenever relevant.

Submittable link in our bio!

📸pc: Kai Wingo

11/25/2024

Meet our EDITOR!

Poet, librettist, translator, and essayist Claudia Keelan published New and Selected Poems: We Step into the Sea (Barrow Street) in the spring of 2018, as well as a book of essays Ecstatic Émigré: An Ethics of Practice in the Poets on Poetry Series from the University of Michigan Press. Her honors include the Beatrice Hawley Award from Alice James Books for Utopic and the Jerome Shestack Prize from American Poetry Review. She is a Barrick Distinguished Scholar and Professor of English at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.

11/24/2024

Meet Interim’s ASSISTANT EDITOR!

Andrew S. Nicholson is the author of A Lamp Brighter than Foxfire (Center for Literary Publishing). His poems have been published in magazines and journal including Colorado Review, The Bitter Oleander, and Eleven Eleven and were anthologized in New Poetry from the Midwest 2014 (New American Press). He is a former Schaeffer Fellow in Poetry and a former artist-in-residence at the Palazzo Rinaldi. He is an associate professor-in-residence at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.

11/23/2024

Meet our Managing Editor!

Madina Tuhbatullina is a poet from Turkmenistan, whose work has been published or is forthcoming in The Indianapolis Review, SRPR, Tar River Poetry, Aster(ix), and elsewhere. Her poetry collection Tender Knots was named a finalist for the Black Lawrence Press Immigrant Writing Series. Currently, she is a Creative Writing MFA candidate at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.

11/22/2024

Meet our WEB EDITOR!

Alex Blake is a Las Vegas native with a passion for art and design. With a background in graphic design, marketing, and interior design, he is currently pursuing a Master of Architecture degree. A large focus of his work is a commitment to environmental sustainability.

Alex believes architecture can not only enhance our built environment but also protect and restore the natural environment. His goal is to contribute meaningfully to our planet’s well-being by focusing on projects that prioritize sustainability and resiliency. As a licensed architect, Alex aspires to specialize in adaptive reuse projects. By reimagining and repurposing existing structures, he aims to create spaces that serve both the environment and the community. His career will focus on uplifting the community through thoughtful design that addresses the ecological hurdles we face as a society.

11/21/2024

Meet Interim’s PROSE EDITOR!

Arel Wiederholt Kassar is a writer from San Francisco, living in Las Vegas. His published work can be found at arelwk.com

11/20/2024

Meet Interim’s EDITOR-AT-LARGE!

Anne Gerard Livingston is a poet and educator born in Detroit, Michigan. Her work has been featured in, or is forthcoming from, Foglifter, Image, North American Review and Volume Poetry, among others. She spends her summers in Appalachia working with the Lamplight Summer Program.

11/13/2024

Test Site Issue is live!!! Find the link in our bio!

Thank you to all of our contributors! The Test Site Poetry Award recipient is Jami Macarty and the Betsy Joiner Flanagan Award recipient is Geoffrey Babbitt. Congratulations to the winners! Also featured in the issue: Joseph Lease, Stephanie Strickland, Kimberly Ann Priest, Dennis Finnell, Nancy Eimers, Robert Gibb, Michael Todd Edgerton, Ned Balbo, Khaled Mattawa’s translation of Saadi Youssef, Carol Ciavonne’s review of Matthew Cooperman, and an introduction by our Associate Editor Andy Nicholson.

The beautiful artwork in the issue and in this post is by Catherine Skinner.

10/10/2024

We’re looking for manuscripts that engage the perilous conditions of life in the 21st century, as they pertain to issues of social justice and the earth. The winning books will demonstrate an ethos that considers the human condition in inclusive love and sympathy, while offering the same in consideration of the earth. Because we believe the truth is always experimental, we’ll especially appreciate books with innovative approaches.

Interim: A Journal of Poetry and Poetics publishes two books in our annual Test Site Poetry Series contest. One title will be publicized as The Test Site Poetry Series winner, and the other, thanks to a generous gift, will be publicized as The Betsy Joiner Flanagan Award in Poetry. The authors of the winning books will both receive $1,000 and the books will be published by the University of Nevada Press.

The Test Site Poetry Series is open to all writers who are seeking to place an unpublished manuscript. All submissions must be at least 48 pages. We will consider “New & Selected” or “Collected” manuscripts including work from previously published books. If poems in the manuscript have been previously published, enclose an acknowledgments page.

Series editor Claudia Keelan, along with series board members Sherwin Bitsui, Donald Revell, Sasha Steensen, and Ronaldo V. Wilson will choose the winning books. The deadline for submissions is December 15, 2024. Go to our bio for our Submittable link!

10/01/2024

December 6, 2023, a shooter entered the University of Nevada, Las Vegas campus, killing three faculty members and wounding three others. This special edition of Interim seeks to celebrate the vibrant art and life of Las Vegas and to meditate on the violence in America that has become all too common.

Interim seeks poetry and essays based on these two themes: Life in Las Vegas beyond the Strip and responses to the crisis of violence in America. Writers who have made a life in Las Vegas are especially encouraged to submit in celebration of the city’s connection with the arts. The deadline to submit is November 6. The Submittable link is in our bio.

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http://www.interimpoetics.org/

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