Meridian Pushcart Nominations

Last year’s Meridian fiction and poetry editors, Aja Gabel, George David Clark, and Paul Legault, have made their Pushcart nominations for the forthcoming edition. Of course, hundreds of other literary magazines are doing the same thing … but we wish our authors good luck in making the final cut:

Poetry Nominations:

Alice Notley, “Diary Entry,” Issue 23
Carl [...]


Motionpoems

Hello, Meridan blog followers!  I’m Zayne, a first-year poet.

A friend of mine now living in Minneapolis sent me an article about an event going down on October 20. (You can read the article yourself here.) The event itself will be a screening of several ‘motionpoems’—collaborations between poets and animators, rendering what seems to [...]


One Day Poem Pavilion

Hey all!

I’m Jonterri, a first year student in UVA’s MFA program for poetry. I’m fascinated by different ways that poetry is able to reach a wider audience, so the One Day Poem Pavilion thrilled me.

photo courtesy of Experiential Typography website

Jiyeon Song constructed the One Day Poem Pavilion as a Master’s thesis project.  Over the course [...]