"About 2,850 poems have been published in the 38 volumes of The Best American Poetry. Twenty percent of those poems were sourced from five publications."

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Calling all nonfiction writers! Our nonfiction contest is closing on September 30. The winning entry will receive $1000! To learn more and to submit your work, visit www.boulevardmagazine.org/nonfiction-c...

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In "Incest and the Anti-Psychoanalytic in Doris Lessing’s The Golden Notebook," Griffin Reed reevaluates Lessing's novel as the first major attempt by a British author to demonstrate the racial character of incest in literature. #AcademicSky @griffin5a7.bsky.social muse.jhu.edu/pub/17/artic...

Paul McCartney's mother forbade him from listening to The Beatles when he was growing up. "It wouldn't make sense," she'd say. "It doesn't make any sense.."

i’m in this! read my MA thesis on doris lessing, freud, and guy debord, in which i propose: sometimes beautiful women are JOKING 👇

this is wild. i am thrilled and depressed to report that boulevard pays as well, and sometimes better, than the new yorker

isolated vocals from the ending of “you still believe in me” from pet sounds. brian wilson touches the face of heaven

Chicago Sun-Times Prints AI-Generated Summer Reading List With Books That Don't Exist 🔗 www.404media.co/chicago-sun-...

i interviewed my friend mary helen callier @fullstopmag.bsky.social on her new book of poetry, when the horses! www.full-stop.net/2025/05/06/i...

wearing the paris review shorts hits different after you’ve started submitting to them

one of the best mag in the game - you should send them work

Hello Bluesky, I have a new substack about Hollywood and what goes on inside it - check out the inaugural entry by clicking this hyperlink which this app graciously allows me to post without getting shadowbanned the.vane.fyi/p/anonymous-...

met a woman in the line to piss at ye olde rustic inn who told me her skincare routine is egg whites + botox

when you know all this information, it actually makes sense that you’d pay $11 for this water.

vitamin c by can coming on in the wine bar is perfect for me, someone who needs every trip to LA to feel like a paul thomas anderson movie

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"Where is the center? Who gets to talk? In my approach, I feel more comfortable if I'm just one of the passengers on the bus. I'm not the driver." New on our site: an interview with Robert Fitterman about his latest book of poetry, Creve Coeur: www.boulevardmagazine.org/free-reading...

happy saint patrick's day everyone

BREAKING: the U.S. District Court in D.C. has found that Trump’s firing of former NLRB Chair Gwynne A. Wilcox’s firing was unlawful, and ruled that she must be immediately reinstated to serve out the rest of her term as a board member. She was appointed and confirmed to a 5-year term in 2023.

i had to cover my ears and go la la la la la

There are other people in the world: defector.com/there-are-ot...

i’m so happy to see my story up on the fabulous new nimrod substack! it’s about irish music and being 19 — please read and enjoy ♥️

They wanted to kill Palestinians so bad they let all this stuff happen rather than stop or even promise to stop

the tenure of mikhail gorbachev summed up almost perfectly in one paragraph

it’s that time of year

my boyfriend was just complaining that i never let him pick what we watch on tv so i let him pick and he put on jimmy carter’s crisis of confidence speech

2024!

now watching

o tannenbaum!

how it feels to not like soup that much

“Even still, eight years later, the Midwest and the Rust Belt are regarded as at the center and engine of the neo-reactionary and radical right-wing movements today.” Read “Art and Radicalism in St. Louis” by Marc Blanc, Ryan Prewitt, and Simone Sparks. beltmag.com/art-and-radi...

this box set of a dance to the music of time with “the james broom-lynne dust jackets” is the first thing i’ll buy if i ever have 1800 dollars 😭

Hello, Bluesky! Boulevard is a literary magazine founded in 1984 in New York City by author Richard Burgin, and now based in St. Louis. For decades we've published the finest in fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. We hold three contests for emerging writers every year. We pay every author we publish.

whenever people get misty eyed about american democracy i always think about this picture i took outside a 2016 presidential debate

still reeling at the fact that i threw a party so good a political consultant from brussels showed up

i am enchanted by chicago’s string of luxury grocery stores that appear to sell only very cold and very expensive salmon

I don't even know how the case against calling this a genocide is supposed to go anymore

gangs of new york is a movie about finding yourself and staying true to who you are

just acquired! @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social

wash u had this club where several student luminaries were nominated each year to give a lecture on a topic close to their hearts. i remember sitting in a basement listening to a 30 minute speech read from an iphone about why it was annoying when people weren’t normal

i endorse this theory

“These alleged cuts come as the University is supposedly spending more than $3 million to renovate President Alivisatos’s private residence.”

is middlemarch the only story ever told where at the end a rich person actually gives up their money?

the retinol is working .. people i meet at the office keep asking me if i’m an intern

i am at the women’s studies conference hearing the sex in movies discourse play out in real time