Posit

21/05/2024

The Spring issue of Posit is here! For this very special 36th issue we’re very proud to feature a powerful selection of accomplished, innovative poetry and prose by Dennis Barone, Maxine Chernoff, Ed Friedman, ash good, Mara Lee Grayson, John Isles, Rod Val Moore, Luke Munson, Ann Pedone, Lisa Sewell, and John Yau, with sculpture, painting and drawing by Catherine Howe, Rona Pondick, and Zazu Swistel, and Text + Image by Alexandra Mattraw & Adam Thorman. Please click on over to explore their brilliant new work (and don't forget to check out our introductions). Available 24/7, paywall- and advertising-free, at

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29/03/2024

Looking forward to reading with my wonderful KGB Poetry co-hosts on Monday: John Deming, Jada Gordon, Jason Schneiderman & Dani Brand!

24/01/2024

It’s Posit 35 -- our 10th anniversary issue! For this special occasion, we have gathered an especially rich and dynamic selection of new poetry and prose by Durell Carter, Ed Go, Howard Good, Brian Henry, John T. Howard, Jill Jones, Burt Kimmelman, Anna Meister, Carolyn Oliver, Stephen Ratcliffe, The Pablo Saborío Art Experience, and Jerome Sala, with painting and collage by Nancy Chunn, Robert Feintuch, and John Walker, and Text + Image by Bill Lessard. Please click on over to explore this amazing new work (and don't forget to check out our introductions).

*Available 24/7, paywall- and advertising-free, at positjournal.com*

And welcome to the newest member of our editorial team, former contributor Barbara Tomash!

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04/10/2023

Live on WPVM now! And available as a podcast tomorrow: Martha Cinader interviews Susan Lewis about Posit for her show Listen and Be Heard -- featuring readings by Issue 34 contributors Mikey Swanberg, Mary Wilson, and Brendan Lorber.

Please join Martha Cinader and Tony Robles, for the Listen & Be Heard Radio Show on WPVM. Martha speaks with Susan Lewis, editor and publisher of Posit Journal. Tony Robles speaks with authors from Red Hawk Publications at the Catawba Valley Festival for the Arts and lots of poetry read by the poets...

03/10/2023

Congratulations to our Best of the Net Anthology nominees!

Fiction:

Sean Ennis, Vouchsafe (Posit 32) https://positjournal.com/2023/01/24/sean-ennis/

Poetry:

Justin Lacour, Sonnet (April song) (Posit 31) https://positjournal.com/2022/09/30/justin-lacour/

Don Zirilli, In the Midst of Describing (Posit 31) https://positjournal.com/2022/09/30/donald-zirilli/

Elisabeth Adwin Edwards, CVS (Posit 32) https://positjournal.com/2023/01/24/elisabeth-adwin-edwards/

Rahana Ismail, Burn on My Mother’s Forearm (Posit 32) https://positjournal.com/2023/01/24/rahana-k-ismail/

Kylie Hough, Prognosis Uncertain (Posit 33) https://positjournal.com/2023/05/25/kylie-hough-2/

Myles Taylor, Unskilled Labor (Posit 33) https://positjournal.com/2023/05/25/myles-taylor/

Visual Art:

Donna McCullough, Gulf XHD (Posit 31) https://positjournal.com/2022/09/30/donna-mccullough/

Jane Kent, Red Eye (Posit 33) https://positjournal.com/2023/05/25/jane-kent/

David Storey, Cascadian (Posit 33) https://positjournal.com/2023/05/25/david-storey/

Backyard Enlightenment Using the wrong end of a rake, I have drawn a spiral in the sand. I have drawn a spiral from the sand. I am growing my dizziness. I have a warning about the poems I sent you.…

18/09/2023

Posit 34 is here! Featuring powerful new poetry and prose by Derek Coulombe, Jared Daniel Fagen, Thomas Fink, Maxwell Gontarek, Jessica Grim, Heikki Huotari, R.J. Lambert, Brendan Lorber, Suzanne Maxson, Mikey Swanberg, Ken Taylor, and Mary G. Wilson – plus amazing painting and sculpture by Galen Cheney, Steve DeFrank, and Kukuli Velarde. Available paywall- and advertising-free, as always, at www.positjournal.com.

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30/08/2023

It is awful to contemplate the world without Maureen Seaton. It was a gift to know her as a friend, stellar poet, and frequent contributor to Posit. This poem and its brilliant companions can be found in Posit 14: https://positjournal.com/2017/06/12/maureen-seaton/ More of her work in Posit 29: https://positjournal.com/2022/01/24/maureen-seaton-2/ And some wonderful collaborations with Denise Duhamel in Posit 23: https://positjournal.com/2020/01/15/maureen-seaton-&-denise-duhamel/

14/08/2023

A brilliant review in Interim: A Journal of Poetry & Poetics by Posit Editor Carol Ciavonne of contributor Barbara Tomash's extraordinary new book, "Her Scant State" from Apogee Press.

25/05/2023

Posit 33 is published! Featuring literary gorgeousness by Elizabeth Robinson, Kylie Hough, Nuallain House (Pat Nolan), Carrie Bennett, Zoe Darsee, Jasper Glens, Kevin McLellan, David James Miller, Grace Smith, Jeneva Burroughs Stone, Myles Taylor, and Nam Hoang Tran, & visual mastery of Jeanne Silverthorne, David Storey, and Jane Kent. Available as always, paywall- and advertising-free at www.positjournal.com.

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25/01/2023

Posit 32 is out and beautiful! Read it for free!

Posit 32 is here! Featuring amazing new poetry, prose, painting, multimedia, and ceramic sculpture by Michael Brosnan, Dennis Hinrichsen, Rahana Ismail, Julie Marie Wade, Elisabeth Adwin Edwards, Laura Moriarty (poet and novelist), Andrew Levy, Jill Moser, Sue Havens, Ron Baron, C Culbertson, Sean Ennis, Peter Gurnis, Francesco Levato, & Jean Kane! www.positjournal.com

24/01/2023

Posit 32 is here! Featuring amazing new poetry, prose, painting, multimedia, and ceramic sculpture by Michael Brosnan, Dennis Hinrichsen, Rahana Ismail, Julie Marie Wade, Elisabeth Adwin Edwards, Laura Moriarty (poet and novelist), Andrew Levy, Jill Moser, Sue Havens, Ron Baron, C Culbertson, Sean Ennis, Peter Gurnis, Francesco Levato, & Jean Kane! www.positjournal.com

10/12/2022

Congratulations to our 2022 Pushcart nominees!

Barbara Henning, Naked (from Posit 29, January, 2022)
https://positjournal.com/2022/01/24/barbara-henning-2/

Patty Seyburn, Inventions (from Posit 29, January, 2022)
https://positjournal.com/2022/01/24/patty-seyburn-2/

Julie Choffel, Because I Said So (from Posit 30, May, 2022)
https://positjournal.com/2022/05/17/julie-choffel/

Kristi Maxwell, Giant Panda (an extinction) (from Posit 30, September, 2022)
https://positjournal.com/2022/05/17/kristi-maxwell/

Barbara Tomash, Of Spirit (from Posit 31, September, 2022)
https://positjournal.com/2022/09/30/barbara-tomash-3/

John Walser, Saturday Night, Summer Solstice (from Posit 31, September, 2022)
https://positjournal.com/2022/09/30/john-walser/

Joe Williams Singing Joe Williams’s voice is candle wax swallow snuffing another flame into loose smoke: is three in the morning August stepping alone out of a club when you don’t know it summer st…

03/10/2022

Congratulations to our nominees for the 2023 Best of the Net Anthology!

Isaac Akanmu, “spurs:” https://positjournal.com/2022/05/17/isaac-akanmu/

Kirstin Allio, “Adaptation II:” https://positjournal.com/2021/09/27/kirstin-allio/

Rose Auslander, “It:” https://positjournal.com/2021/09/27/rose-auslander/

Robin Croft, “The Laughing Lady:” https://positjournal.com/2021/09/27/robin-croft/

Erika Eckart, “Sight:” https://positjournal.com/2022/05/17/erika-eckart/

Jill Khoury, “pure o:” https://positjournal.com/2022/01/24/jill-khoury/

Ian Lockaby, “Carry One Cigarette:” https://positjournal.com/2021/09/27/ian-u-lockaby/

Rebecca Pyle, “Cartoon of Goodness:” https://positjournal.com/2021/09/27/rebecca-pyle/

Sarah J. Sloat, “Being Busy Is a Kind of Rest:” https://positjournal.com/2021/09/27/sarah-j-sloat/

Nancy White, “Spell:” https://positjournal.com/2022/05/17/nancy-white/

01/10/2022

It's a beautiful and powerful new issue of Posit! Featuring innovative and exciting poetry, sculpture, video, drawing, and more by nicole v basta, TJ Beitelman, DPNY, Elaine Equi, Peter Grandbois, Justin Lacour, Donna McCullough, Ben Miller, Soledad Salamé, Mara Adamitz Scrupe, Ashley Somwaru, Barbara Tomash, John Walser, Don Zirilli, and Martha Zweig.

www.positjournal.com

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17/05/2022

It’s our 30th issue! We’re marking this milestone with a very special selection of poetry and prose by Isaac Akanmu, Pearl Button, Julie Choffel, Erika Eckart, Benjamin Landry, Kristi Maxwell, Jo O’Lone-Hahn, Dennis James Sweeney, Sam Herschel Wein, Nancy White, and Tyrone Williams; painting, sculpture, and collage by Andrea Burgay, Taraneh Mosadegh, and Ana Rendich; and text + image by Vi Khi Nao & Jessica Alexander.

Please help us celebrate by clicking on over and checking out their incredible work at www.positjournal.com

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24/01/2022

It’s a new year and a fabulous new issue of Posit! Our 29th issue features poetry and prose by Glen Armstrong, Dennis Barone, Barbara Henning, Elise Houcek, Jill Khoury, Burt Kimmelman, Richard Peabody, Maureen Seaton, Patty Seyburn, Jared Stanley, and Rodrigo Toscano; video, installation, and painting by Al Wong, Holly Wong, and Tamar Zinn; and text + image by Adrian Lurssen.

Please click on over and check out their incredible work at www.positjournal.com

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13/12/2021

FYI -- Posit is currently reading submissions for late 2022! www.positjournal.com

01/12/2021

Congratulations to our Pushcart nominees! We hope all of these wonderful works get selected for The Pushcart Prize!

Hannah Corrie, Galileo Went Blind (from Posit 26, January, 2021)
https://positjournal.com/2021/01/27/hannah-corrie/

Lisa Lewis, Parking Lot Allegory (from Posit 26, January, 2021)
https://positjournal.com/2021/01/27/lisa-lewis/

Kylie Hough, The Problem with Eggs (from Posit 27, May, 2021)
https://positjournal.com/2021/05/11/kylie-hough/

Max Ridge, Hello Caesura (from Posit 28, September, 2021)
https://positjournal.com/2021/09/27/max-ridge/

Nathaniel Rosenthalis, Self-Portrait as Shovel (from Posit 28, September, 2021)
https://positjournal.com/2021/09/27/nathaniel-rosenthalis/

Marvin Shackelford, Drawback (from Posit 28, September, 2021)
https://positjournal.com/2021/09/27/marvin-shackelford-3/

03/10/2021

We’re delighted to announce Posit's nominees for the 2021 Best of the Net Anthology! Congratulations to all!

Posit 25:

Celia Bland, Flounder
Raymond de Borja, After Music
Jeanne Jaffe, Sheltering in Place (2020)

Posit 26:

Merridawn Duckler, No Single Answer, Agony Column, Cosmopolitan Magazine, May 1988
Peter Grandbois, The Hole
Donte K. Hayes, Prepare (2020)

Posit 27:

Michael Brosnan, from In the Meanwhile #1
Joey Hedger, Blurry Exit Signs
Patrick Kindig, corona, n. (“a small circle or disc”)
Dee Shapiro, It's Covid Everywhere (2020)

28/09/2021

It’s a new issue of Posit! Our 28th issue features all kinds of gorgeousness: poetry and prose by Kirstin Allio, Rose Auslander, Lizzy Golda, Michael Henry, Ian U Lockaby, Jonathan Minton, Bryan D. Price, Rebecca Pyle, Max Ridge, Nathaniel Rosenthalis, and Marvin Shackelford; sculpture, installation, and photography by Robin Croft, Judith Henry, and Joan Tanner; and text + image by S. Jane Sloat.

Click on over and check it out at www.positjournal.com

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13/08/2021