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 Written by Jazzy Danziger on June 1st, 2010Issue 25 is here, featuring our 2010 Editors’ Prize Winners and an interview with poet Temple Cone, in addition to some excellent (and gutsy) new fiction and poetry. We hope you’ll order the issue or consider a subscription. In addition, our new editors have been selected for next year. Hannah Holtzman will take over as Editor [...] Written by Jazzy Danziger on March 16th, 2010Thank you to everyone who entered the contest. It was a strong year for poetry and fiction. We hope you’ll submit again in the fall. POETRY FICTION Both winners will receive a $1,000 prize, and their pieces will be published in our May 2010 issue. Category: Contests, Fiction, Meridian News, Poetry | Tags: contest, editors' prize, meridian, winners |  2 comments | Share:
Written by Jazzy Danziger on January 11th, 2010The launch of the newest issue of Meridian will be feted with a reading during which contributors from across the nation will converge at the Bridge PAI for an evening of poetry, fiction, a dramatic interpretation of a creative non-fiction by Lisa K. Buchanan and previously unpublished poems by Breece D’J Pancake. The slate of readers [...] Category: Fiction, Meridian News, Nonfiction, Poetry, Publishing, Readings | Tags: issue 24, launch party, meridian | 4 comments | Share:
Written by Meridian on January 4th, 2010Current MFAs in fiction and poetry at UVA had a great fall semester. Here is some recent publication news. (This may not be a complete list.) Steve Barbaro had poems chosen for Denver Quarterly, DIAGRAM, and Spinning Jenny. Jazzy Danziger’s poem “Earthquake in Wabash Valley, Three Months Before Our Engagement” will appear in the spring 2010 issue [...] Category: Fiction, MFA, Poetry, Publishing, UVA MFA News | Tags: journals, MFA, Publishing, uva | 2 comments | Share:
Written by Jeb Livingood on November 6th, 2009Last 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 Written by Jazzy Danziger on October 28th, 2009MFAs at the University of Virginia read at Charlottesville’s Bel Rio each Tuesday night for the program’s reading series. We think you’ll enjoy these two videos from last night’s reading, featuring poet Christa Romanosky. Part 1: Part 2: Category: MFA, Poetry, Readings, Student Readings, UVA MFA News, Video | Tags: bel rio, christa romanosky, MFA, Poetry, Readings, Video | Leave a comment | Share:
Written by Dave Serafino on October 22nd, 2009Blue Boy: Seeing beyond Perception by Dash Cox There is a particular kind of poetry that I’ve seen in literary magazines: so-called literary works from literary minds, masters of fine arts, doctors of poetry with the passion schooled straight out of them. Some are clever, some surprising, some witty, some are examples of [...] Category: Poetry, Publishing, reviews | Tags: blue boy, dash cox, Poetry, review | 4 comments | Share:
Written by Jazzy Danziger on October 20th, 2009We’re excited to announce that we are now accepting entries for the 2010 Editors’ Prize Contests in Fiction and Poetry. Deadline December 15, 2009. For a $16 entry fee, you receive a chance at a $1,000 prize and a one-year subscription to Meridian (entries from outside the U.S. will receive only the prize issue due [...] Category: Contests, Fiction, Meridian News, Poetry | Tags: contest, editors' prize, meridian, submissions | 1 comment | Share:
Written by Zayne Turner on October 19th, 2009Hello, 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 [...] Written by Jonterri Gadson on August 30th, 2009Hey 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 [...] |
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