"I like when someone's very quietly or very openly fooling with an emotional manipulation dial."

"While my stories aren't autobiographical, I really do believe in the whole write-what-you-know thing. One time I wrote a story from the point of view of an old sick man and it was just terrible. It was like really bad Carver. The man sat around watching daytime television and eating pie."

"James Harms offers a contemplative effort in a lean essay that turns the prose poem discussion in a noteworthy direction..."

"Setting aside, for now, its ideological nomenclature, its appeal lies in the interpretative dynamic between text and image..."

"We started KO because we wanted to try something that was different than we'd seen in other literary magazines, both in terms of thematic slant and in terms of mission..."

"He said that if he were asked to be poetry editor of a magazine, he would aim for unity. I told him that was more or less the exact opposite of what I wanted to do..."

"I imagine party-goers huddled around a fire pit as they share stories about stalking a would-be lover..."

"Contemporary flash fiction has been slugged, whipped, and slapped: dragged through the literary mud, pegged as incidental..."

"Kayla Soyer-Stein recreates the wonderful magic and sense of the uncanny that fairy tales offer..."

"Recently I won a best humorous poem competition, and it appears I have a knack for healthy self-ridicule..."

"I think about that a lot—about the balance of light and dark and about allowing my characters to have an open destiny. I think that’s one of the most important aspects of story writing..."

"It calls itself the 'farthest north literary journal for writing and the arts,' which sounded a bit suspicious to me, so I did a little poking around to verify the assertion..."

"The history of Poetry is a history of resistance in all directions..."

"The 1990s was a wild, wonderful, idealistic decade in Prague. Excellent exchange rates and the possibility of a relatively uninhibited way of life lured expatriates in droves to the Czech capital. In short, it was the perfect time for the founding of a literary journal..."

"One author climbs to the top of a tree trunk support beam that’s part of the architecture of the writing space. Another is balancing a couch cushion on his head and explaining wog: a dog who uses a dog-sized wheel chair to get his back end around San Francisco..."

"While literary niches often result in suffocation, eighty pages of plaid, The LBJ’s aviary focus proves malleable enough..."

“'In consideration of what looks like a total collapse of our economic system,' he said, 'I thought the bookfair went very well...'"

"There are two wooden figures on my husband’s desk. Figurines. They are meant to resemble humans, black humans. African-Americans..."