The perspectives and expressions unheeded not because of the lack of quality, substance, or merit, but because of prejudice, arrogance, and commercial calculations of those who seek to control and turn literature and art into an industry with a broader aim to generate revenues rather than to promote the essence of the art in our time. We stand as a wiling contradiction to that. Our editors activel
y seek and reach out to both the published and the non-published writers and artists. The familiar voices we would love to listen to again and again and the new voices that would awaken us out of the mundane and status quo. As we seek to broaden this vision especially among the less privileged and non-elites - in the United States as well
as throughout the world, we will steadfastly strive to be their faithful advocate and honest venue of expressions. We do not judge what should or should not be literature or art, and we strongly believe that our readers should be the ultimate judge. Our role as a literary and art journal, we believe, is to be a faithful caterer of literature and art in any capacity, expression, or interpretation to our readers without our subjective filtering system. The only criteria of our discernment when it comes down to reviewing our submissions, however, is the level and quality of humanity and humanism expressed in each work we come across. We will quietly decline certain submissions with questionable values on humanity. We do not have a certain hard deadline. We publish our magazine when the fruit of our editorial labor is ripe and satisfactory in our eyes, and nothing less than that. Though a monthly publication is what we would ideally aim for, the artistic fulfillment in PS+ magazine always comes before meeting its publishing deadline. Peripheral Surveys (PS+) is a proud member of the Council of Literary Magazines and Presses (clmp).
