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Take a look at our current issue https://www.barzakhmag.net/summer-2023-issue Words are infinite. Welcome to Barzakh.

Barzakh is a multi-genre journal with an internationalist stance seeking work that transcends genre. “Barzakh” is a word/concept that names the connecting link, the “between” of something, such as different spheres of existence. As a temporal concept it can be, and historically was, considered an interval of time. For the great Arab mystic & poet Ibn Arabi, Barzakh is a kind of purgatory—the tempo

rary and yet historical place which makes up this world where we live, love and labor, aware that what we need most to find our way through is what the poet John Keats called “negative capability,” i.e., the ability “of being in uncertainties, mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching after fact and reason.” The Arabic word has the literal meaning of “barrier,” “veil,” and “curtain.”

Thus, traditionally seen as a separator, it is however also and more interestingly thinkable as a “between” that links, a liminality that creates previously negated space, and in that sense can be translated as “isthmus.” Emerging out of the English department at the University of Albany, SUNY, our focus is on innovative and experimental poetry and prose as well as socially engaged art. The idea of Barzakh is thus not to map a territory but to travel along boundaries, crisscrossing always-to-be-redefined regions, in the process creating rhizomatic assemblages, de- and re-territorializing language-intensities as shifting fields of forces. We want to hear voices hidden and silenced, quiet and yearning, loud and impossible.

01/05/2024

Thank you to Salon Salvage for helping us celebrate the release of our new issue🧡We loved hearing from our talented writers!

29/04/2024

Be sure to stop by at UAlbany’s showcase day to celebrate the release of our new issue!

26/04/2024

Happy poetry Friday! Here is the start of “Winter’s Kisses” by Ehsan Ahmed. Read the rest at barzakhmag.net/winter-2024-poetry-blog/2023/7/4/wendy-barry-gyngt-btj94-sfnyw

25/04/2024

Looking for a quick read? Here is the opening of “Last Stop” by Lisa Isaac. Read the rest at
barzakhmag.net/winter-2024-prose-blog/2023/7/20/houda-nizam-jmfmp-8jra3

23/04/2024

Here are mixed media collages by Shane Allison. Read more about this artist at barzakhmag.net/winter-2024-visual-arts-blog/2023/2/4/shandra-stephenson-ge3ff

17/04/2024

Today’s visual art is “Sunflower Nap” by Terry Brinkman. Read more about this artist at
barzakhmag.net/winter-2024-visual-arts-blog/2023/2/4/ronald-walker-pty76

25/03/2024

Get your week started with “Rooted” by M. Soledad Caballero. Read the rest at barzakhmag.net/spring-2019-poetry

28/02/2024

All the way from our Spring 2018 edition, here is “Enfance (Childhood)” by Nelly Sanchez. Read more about this artist at barzakhmag.net/2018-art-1/2018/4/29/enfance-childhood

16/02/2024

Happy poetry Friday! This is “After” by Margaret Markham. Read more about this poet at barzakhmag.net/summer-2023-poetry-content/2023/7/22/margaret-marcum

13/02/2024

Check out these paintings by Kirsten Valentine! Read more about her at barzakhmag.net/spring-19-art/2019/5/21/kirsten-valentine

01/02/2024

Taking a look at some visual art from our summer 2022 issue, here are paintings from Tomislav Šilipetar. Read more about this artist at barzakhmag.net/summer-2022-visual-art-blog/2022/7/7/17g9424dctogeyc2f3jf44n26uvn3p

25/01/2024

Read the opening of “AM Radio Inspires with Hope” by Mark Putzi. Read the rest of this piece and more about the artist at barzakhmag.net/winter-2022-prose-1/2022/1/12/mark-putzi

18/01/2024

Take a look at Gali-Dana Singer’s series of photos titled “Eternal Iris.” Read more about this artist at barzakhmag.net/summer-2022-in-nature-blog/2022/7/8/gali-dana-singer

17/01/2024

Here is the beginning of “Catholic Night at Angel Stadium” by Robert Walikis. Read the rest at barzakhmag.net/spring-2021-prose/2021/6/2/robert-walikis-tlbm8-7z8wh-jzg2m

11/01/2024

Read the beginning of “The Devil at the Door” by Ian Canon. Finish this piece at barzakhmag.net/summer-2022-prose-2/2022/7/13/ian-canon

08/01/2024

Kicking off the new year we have “shorescape no.2” by Mark McKain. Read more about this artist from our winter 2022 issue at barzakhmag.net/winter-2022-visual-art-1/2022/1/14/mark-mckain

18/12/2023

Here is “The Lakelight” by John Tavares. Read the rest of this archived piece at .barzakhmag.net/spring-2021-prose/2021/6/3/john-tavares-apjhs

06/12/2023

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05/12/2023

Today we are going back to our Winter 2022 issue to examine some prose. This is “Zombie Trouble” by Madeline Vosch. Read the rest at barzakhmag.net/winter-2022-prose-1/2022/1/12/madeline-vosch-xymcl

17/11/2023

Happy poetry Friday! This is the beginning of “Learn to Count” by Juan Mobili. Read the rest at barzakhmag.net/summer-2023-poetry-content/2023/7/22/juan-mobili

14/11/2023

Here is a nonfiction piece from our archive titled “Track and Field” by Jess Martini. Read the rest at barzakhmag.net/spring-2021-prose/2021/6/2/jessica-martini-ry9xh-99er3

12/11/2023

3 more days to submit for our next issue! What have you been creating lately?

10/11/2023

Happy poetry Friday! Here is the opening of “the little things” by KM Bezner. Read the rest at barzakhmag.net/summer-2023-poetry-content/2023/7/22/km-bezner

09/11/2023

Check out this art by Aaron Lelito. Read more about this artist at barzakhmag.net/summer-2023-visual-art-content/2023/7/2/aaron-lelito

07/11/2023

Here is “Booze Cruise” by Martin Dolan from our Spring ‘22 issue. Read the rest at barzakhmag.net/winter-2022-prose-1/2022/1/12/martin-dolan-wdtrz

01/11/2023

Two more weeks to submit your poetry, prose, and visual art for our next issue!

31/10/2023

Happy Halloween! Here are some spooky images from Thomas Riesner. Read more about this artist at .barzakhmag.net/summer-2023-visual-art-content/2023/6/29/thomas-riesner

25/10/2023

Submissions close November 15, so hurry and submit your work! We can’t wait to see what you’ve been creating🧡

24/10/2023

Rebecca Zeh is bringing us a pop of color today for our visual art feature. Read more about this artist at barzakhmag.net/summer-2023-visual-art-content/2023/6/29/rebecca-zeh

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Hello beautiful creators and welcome to the weekend! It's time to say farewell to 2022 and hello to 2023! The big question on everyone's lips right now is what's your resolution, but our question is do you or don't you set a resolution for the year. Do you set a vision for the year ahead? Or is Jan 1st just another day?

Only a few days left to submit for our Summer 2022 issue. Prose, poetry, and visual art with the optional theme of In Nature and whatever that means to you. We can't wait to see your work. Go to barzakhmag.net/contact to learn more. #writingcommunity #poetrycommunity #artist #submissionsopen

We want prose, poetry, and your art! See our current and past issues to get an idea of what we like. Our optional theme In Nature is for our visual art as well. Please share our call for submissions. Go to the link to submit barzakhmag.net/contact #artist #writerscommunity #PoetryCommunity #Submit

We are proud of our expanding art section and would like to see that continue. If you're an artist, we want to see your art. Submissions for visual art, poetry, and prose close May 1st. Our optional theme is In Nature. To submit work go to www.barzakhmag.net/contact #artist #poetrycommunity #writingcommunity

Submissions close May 1st. The theme of In Nature is optional. To learn more or to submit visit www.barzakhmag.net/contact. #writingcommunity #poetrycommunity #artist

We want your prose, your poetry, your visual art, and your hybrid work. We're so excited to see what you're working on. https://www.barzakhmag.net/contact #poetrycommunity #writingcommunity #artist #submissionsopen

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