Lana Turner Journal

05/03/2024

Daniel Borzutsky in the latest issue of . Our reading period for the next issue has just begun. Visit our website for submission guidelines.

27/02/2024

A short poem by André Ajens responds to the new Lana Turner Journal

07/12/2023

The latest issue of Lana Turner Journal, the 16th annual edited by Cal Bedient and yours truly, is back from the printer. Our website will have it for sale shortly, which means even more updates are coming dear readers…

10/09/2022

Is our new issue available? Yes number 15 is now available on our website. There some free samples of our pages there as well. Visit our site today.

10/09/2022

25/08/2022

Have you purchased number 14? A limited number of copies remain. It features prose, art, and several sections of poetry, including, new work by and HL Hazuka. Issue 15 update is coming to our website very soon so check the samples from 14 while they are still available. Link in bio.

06/07/2022

A poem from Lana Turner number 14 features in this month's Harper's Magazine - [readings] - Cristina Rivera Garza's "Not Terrorized No" is translated from from Spanish by Ilana Luna and Cheyla Samuelson. The issue's special section on Rivera Garza features essays by the translators and by co-editor David Lau.

06/07/2022

Alain Badiou in number 14 discusses Char and Occupy Wall Street. Read online at our website.

05/04/2022

Lana Turner Journal number 14 is now available. Visit our website to order a copy - lanaturnerjournal.com

24/04/2021

Join us for a poetry reading on May 15th. Poets Rae Armantrout, Shane Book, Jared Fagen, Forrest Gander, Carlos Lara, Joyelle McSweeney, and Jane Miller will present works from the new Lana Turner, issue 13 of our annual journal. This event is hosted by co-editor David Lau.

Participants:

Rae Armantrout's recent volumes poetry are Partly, Itself, Wobble, and Conjure, all from Wesleyan. She is professor emeritus at UC San Diego.

Shane Book is the author of Ceiling of Sticks, Congotronic, and the forthcoming volume of poetry All Black Everything. He is a filmmaker and a professor at University of Victoria.

Jared Daniel Fagen's prose poetry and essays have appeared in The Brooklyn Rail, Lana Turner, Asymptote, Prelude, and Caesura. His first book, The Animal of Existence, will be published by Black Square Editions in 2022. He is the editor of Black Sun Lit and a graduate student at CUNY.

Forrest Gander, a writer and translator with degrees in geology and literature, was born in the Mojave Desert and lives in the Bay Area of California. Recent books include Be With, winner of the Pulitzer Prize, and Twice Alive, just out from New Directions.

Chula Vista, California. His translation of Blanca Varela’s book Canto villano (Rough Song) was published by The Song Cave in 2020. He is also the author of the collection Like Bismuth When I Enter and the book-length The Green Record and the co-author, with Will Alexander, of The Audiographic As Data. He has lived in Brooklyn, Washington state, and Saudi Arabia, and currently resides with his wife and son in the greatest city on the planet, Los Angeles

Joyelle McSweeney is a poet, translator, and essayist. Her recent books are Toxicon and Arachne, The Necropastoral, and Dead Youth, or, The Leaks. She is publisher of Action Books and a professor at Notre Dame.

Jane Miller's recent poetry collection is Who Is Trixie the Trasher? and Other Questions, from Copper Canyon Press. Just completed: From the Valley of Bronze Camels: A Primer, Some Lectures, & A Boondoggle on Poetry.

04/04/2021

Lana Turner : A journal of poetry and opinion no. 13 is available for purchase on our website- link lanaturnerjournal.com - Stay tuned for zoom events for the new issue featuring our contributors.

23/02/2021

New Poetry by Stephanie Strickland from Lana Turner Journal number 13 is now available at our website. Her work is part of a small number of selections from the full issue.
http://lanaturnerjournal.com/v/vspfiles/images/Strickland.pdf

22/02/2021

Selections from our new issue are available to read at our website. Here is Ken Chen's essay on 21st Century American Poetry, "Against Loneliness," part of a forum on this topic in Lana Turner 13. Purchase a copy of the new issue through our website today.
http://lanaturnerjournal.com/v/vspfiles/images/KenChen.pdf