- Guernica Magazine
"Guernica: a Magazine of Art and Politics" is a magazine that publishes photography, poetry, and fiction from around the world, along with nonfiction, including letters from abroad, investigative pieces, interviews, profiles of artists/writers/musicians or political figures, opinion pieces on international affairs and U.S. domestic politics and foreign policy
"Guernica" 's stated mission is to publish works that explore "the crossroads between art and politics." According to "
Publishers Weekly ", "Guernica" was founded by former M.F.A. students Joel Whitney and Michael Archer, who originally planned an online-only magazine. The editors met during a teaching program inCosta Rica , and have a mutual passion for serious journalism, international literature, and poetry. According to the article, the magazine is read in over 100 countries and that, overall, tens of thousands view the site every month. In 2008, the nonprofit magazine will also appear in print."Guernica" was a 2008 participant in
PEN World Voices and has also co-sponsored events withThe Asian American Writers' Workshop andAmnesty International . In July 2008, Okey Ndibe's "My Biafran Eyes" won an inauguralBest of the Web prize byDzanc Books .Rebecca Morgan Frank 's "Rescue" was recently chosen for theBest New Poets award in 2008.Contributors and Editors
Contributors include
Mark Dowie ,Stephen Elliott ,Jonathan Steele ,Mahvish Khan ,Okey Ndibe ,Mark Binelli ,Ernesto Mestre-Reed ,Terese Svoboda ,Susan Daitch ,Susan Choi ,Frederic Tuten ,Aurelie Sheehan , andRivka Galchen .Recent Guest Fiction and Poetry Editors have included:
George Saunders ,Sam Lipsyte ,Frederic Tuten ,Tracy K. Smith ,Francisco Goldman ,Alexander Chee , and soonBen Marcus .Interview subjects have included: Congressman
John Conyers , CongresswomanCarolyn B. Maloney , Costa Rican PresidentÓscar Arias , Justice Department legal counselJohn Yoo , former member of Dutch ParliamentAyaan Hirsi Ali , former Iraqi cabinet memberAli Allawi , authorsDon DeLillo ,Howard Zinn ,Samantha Power ,Bernard-Henri Lévy ,Nicholas D. Kristof ,Joan Didion , playwrightTony Kushner , and actorMia Farrow .The magazine's advisory board includes:
Robert Bly ,Mark Doty ,Eamon Grennan ,Richard Howard ,James Lardner ,Norman Solomon ,Frederic Tuten Other editors include:Meakin Armstrong (Editor, Fiction), Katherine Dykstra (Editor, Nonfiction), Nancy Rawlinson (Editor, Nonfiction), and Erica Wright (Editor, Poetry). Publishers are Tara Jepson and Jennifer Nix.
External links
* [http://www.guernicamag.com/ Guernica Magazine current issue]
* [http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6492961.html Publishers Weekly, "Guernica: Lit Mag Beats the Odds"]
* [http://nymag.com/daily/entertainment/2008/04/bernardhenri_levy_mia_farrow_a.html New York magazine, "Bernard-Henri Lévy, Mia Farrow, and Some New Age Music Open the PEN World Voices Fest"]
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