Kitchen Table Quarterly

Frances Glessner Lee as the First True Crime Girlie: An Abecedarian lessons in methodology, how to pluck each detailed monument to her private suffering from its noxious and stifling stem.

Today's Featured Poem:

"Frances Glessner Lee as the First True Crime Girlie: An Abecedarian" by Michaela Mayer published in @kitchentableqtrly.bsky.social

Read here:
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Best of the Net Noms are here! Go read them if you haven't already. Or maybe read them again!

7 Debut Collections About Knowing a Place Across Generations - Electric Literature These authors capture the power and privilege of staying

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These books know how to treat place as a character known and loved across time. (@riggstah.bsky.net)

Israel is starving Gaza. Here’s how you can help keep people alive. “People in Gaza are neither dead nor alive, they are walking corpses.” These are the words of Philippe Lazzarini, the Commissioner-General of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency,…

“Many of us feel paralyzed by despair, waking to images of emaciated Palestinian children on our phone screens each morning, but there are still things we can do to help.”

Librarians Recommend 8 Books that Changed the Shape of Politics and Reading in America - Electric Literature According to the Brooklyn Public Library, these titles can help you understand how we got here

"We asked librarians and staff at Brooklyn Public Library to write stories about their connections to these books, and describe why they think we should all be reading them now."

Looking at the sky where we are, you'd never know it's late July. Oh well, let's read.

What Happens After A.I. Destroys College Writing? The demise of the English paper will end a long intellectual tradition, but it’s also an opportunity to reëxamine the purpose of higher education.

A 2024 study found that 58 per cent of English majors at two Midwestern universities had so much trouble interpreting the opening paragraphs of “Bleak House” by Charles Dickens that “they would not be able to read the novel on their own.”

If YOU were in charge of the English language for a day, what is one thing you would absolutely change?

Being a writer means thinking “this is brilliant” 
& “this is bullshit” at the same time

Is this a brilliant week or a bullshit one?

"Look—the Capitol! Let's pay it a visit!"

Superman puts the scare into a lobbyist who's paid off a senator for his vote, Action Comics #1, 1938.

This issue's been out for a couple of days, but we're not even gonna lie, y'all, this post is a bit late because of well, everything. So our only question is: how are you caring for yourself?

Any kind of joy you find, take it, friend. If that's reading some KTQ? Hey, we love that, and we love you!

Do you love poetry or is nonfic more your jam? Do you have eclectic taste? Are you into history-- the weird, secret, but most importantly, true kind? Come read with us!

What’s Happening to Reading? For many people, A.I. may be bringing the age of traditional text to an end.

Will reading become obsolete? How A.I. could transform our relationship to the written word.

Here to remind you to care for yourself. Walk through flowers. Have an iced coffee. Read a poem. Breathe.

(Featured image: "The Shepherd Woman." Ehsan Amed Mehedi. Kitchen Table Quarterly xxv.iii, Spring 2025.)

More daylight hours just means more time to read our Spring issue, right? Is that how that works? No? Oh well, read it anyway!

This is going to be a blow to some litmags.

The lit world is having another one of its extinction level events with the loss of funding for so many lit mags and orgs but that's exactly why it's the right time to become a writer! Start screaming with us!

It's here! It's here!
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Five days until our new issue drops AND five days until submissions close. There's all kinds of stuff going on over here!

We're staying open until April 9th, y'all! Why? Because we want to. That's why!

Find us at Booth 948 at #awp25!

Our E-i-C @katiemanningpoet.bsky.social will be there most of the time, and we'll have book signings with many delightful contributors and staff!

Acre Books Publisher Nicola Mason and Assistant Editor Hussain Ahmed at the AWP Bookfair.

We're ready for another great day at the #AWP25 bookfair! Stop by and say hello to Publisher Nicola Mason and Assistant Editor Hussain Ahmed. Booth 307! 🎉🎉🎉

BOOTH T459!! We have free CAT BOOKMARKS!!! #awp25 @latifaayad.com

Our intern Annie Delmedico sits behind a cornucopia of ZYZZYVA wares: copies of recent issues, two kinds of tote bags, our new T-shirt, and Pulparindos—because we like you!

Are you at #AWP? So are we! Find us and Santa Monica Review at Table 1137 tomorrow! We’ve got copies of recent issues, and totes and T-shirts and bookmarks. Get a subscription if you like. And have a Pulparindo!

SEE YOU IN LOS ANGELES! GOING TO AWP25? VISIT US AT TABLE T316 For LIMITED EDITION MERCH & FRIENDLY FACES

Are you strolling the book fair at AWP now? Come see us at Table T 316!

Hello #AWP!

We're here at table 215, *and* we're back open for submissions!

Consciousness-forward, language-driven, risk-adept.
Send us writing beyond convention.

Guidelines: lespritliteraryreview.org/submission-g...

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If you're in LA, go visit some of our faves! We'll be posting their booths right here 😍

We're not able to be at AWP this year (sad), but we'll be scrolling through all of your posts and living vicariously through you.

American History Lessons Edited to Comply with Anti-DEI Standards “Images of ‘Enola Gay,’ the aircraft that dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima in Japan are among those targeted by the U.S. military in an initiati...

"Though most major league baseball teams at the time refused to sign Jackie Robinson because [THEY JUST DIDN’T LIKE THE CUT OF HIS JIB], Robinson finally became the first [PERSON NAMED JACKIE ROBINSON] to play Major League Baseball in 1947."