...and check out our homepage for a look at the cover and TOC of our new issue, 73.2, out in a couple of weeks www.epochliterary.com

We're happy to announce this year's Michael Koch Memorial Editors in poetry and fiction, Tacey M. Atsitty and Adam O'Fallon Price! They'll be working on 74.1 and 74.2 over the next year. Click through for more info about these great writers.

"I will never use it, of course, because I like making things, and I don’t hate myself, even when the things I make don’t turn out so good. If you hate yourself and everything you do, you will love AI, because it negates the self, and when you use it, you are doing nothing."

This is well worth a read even if you’re already convinced LLMs are a boondoggle

73.2 is at the printer, and 74.1 opens for submissions in two weeks! Please note we have a new AI policy that you can read on our submission page (TL;DR: we don't want AI-generated text), and a blog post from our editor on the subject, linked below.

Today on the blog: assistant editor Hafsa Zulfiqar interviews poet I. S. Jones about her new book BLOODMERCY: "I have always loved declarative lines in a poem, especially as a woman, there is a very strong and commanding power and being able to say something and then it is so."

...and here's a very funny new half-memoir, half-craft-essay, "Jumpsuits," from Otis Fuqua: "We are all, always, writing the characters of ourselves."

Two new blog posts up today as we prepare to open for subs in August! First, Zibusiso Mpofu writes about Zimbabwean writer Yvonne Vera: "A woman of secrets, she never disclosed anything to anyone."

New post up on the blog: Fia Swanson's excellent review of Katie Kitamura's novel Audition: "To Kitamura, our agency—and the agency of her characters—is mostly an illusion."

We've just added Timi Sanni's lovely review of Gbenga Adesina's collection Death Does Not End at the Sea. Timi: "For the speaker of Adesina’s poems, there is a silence in the language of the dead that must ring out in the song of the living."

New on the blog: Lara Stecewycz's interview with Askold Melnyczuk: "A poem must carry the nourishment in every line—even if the morsel of meaning can't itself be contained by a single line or stanza. The whole must feel somehow inevitable."

Our apologies, we aren't tabling at AWP this year due to a bureaucratic snafu. But the new issue is up for sale, PDF or print! And if you see one of our editors wandering tableless around the hall, give 'em a high five

"Danger Music", a poem by Aldo Amparán https://poems.com/poem/danger-music/ via @epochliterary.com and @poetrydaily.bsky.social

Writing this unhinged and personal body horror story healed a little something in me. Very grateful to @epochliterary.com and especially @jrobertlennon.com for embracing the weirdness and editing with such kindness. Print and online copies now available at epochliterary.com.

Subs open for 73.2 on January 1!

Subs open for 73.2 on January 1!

Our Spring 2026 issue will be out in February! It's absolutely packed, and has a special section of translated poetry, prose poetry, and fiction.

...and assistant fiction editor Sijing Yang interviews poet and essayist Ishion Hutchinson. "There’s probably one corner of heaven where there's no distinction between writers and poets and dramatists and painters."

Today we have TWO new interviews with poets up on the blog. First, assistant poetry editor Gerardo Azpiri Iglesias interviews Richie Hofmann. "As a poet I am creating an aesthetic world."

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The answer to shit like this, no matter how politely/sensitively put, should always be a resounding Fuck You

Not to pick on EBSCO, who we enjoy working with, because I'm sure all distributors of print and digital media will be doing the same thing. But this is appalling and everyone should say no. For one thing, we don't have the rights to this work after we publish...it reverts to the writers!

Today on the blog, a new review of Domenica Martinello's poetry collection GOOD WANT, from assistant poetry editor Bridget Huh: poetry "that knows just the right things to ask and not ask, that has the immense and unknowable power to forgive." www.epochliterary.com/blog/review-...

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Thank you to the editors @epochliterary.com not only for giving this story a home but continuing to share it with others!

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Thrilled and honored! @epochliterary.com

I'm so grateful to @epochliterary.com for publishing my essay "The Spider's Share" a few months ago, and now for this Pushcart nomination. And in such good company, too.

Here are our @pushcartprize.bsky.social noms for 2025! Thanks and congrats to Sandra Dolores Gómez Amador, @fmstringer.bsky.social, @justintaylor.bsky.social, @shimmer.bsky.social, @pegahouji.bsky.social, and @tmcallister.bsky.social for this great work.

Very happy to have a poem in the gorgeous new issue of @epochliterary.com. Many thanks to the editors 💚

Our 2025-26 Koch Memorial Editors are Emma Catherine Perry (poetry) and Daniel Peña (fiction). Click through to read about them!

Proud to include @theonion.com alongside other distinguished literary publications in our office

Here's a review of Patrick Nathan's novel THE FUTURE WAS COLOR, out now in paperback from Counterpoint Press, by assistant editor Miklos Mattyasovszky. "[A] tender triumph of a novel, which had wrapped me in its anxious arms from the very first line."

It is a new semester and we have acquired this beautiful vault boy mug for our lego bouquet

Also, electronic subs are open for one more week!

We've got a new interview today from outgoing poetry editor Michael Prior, who talks with poet Michael Nienow about his new collection, IF NOTHING, from @alicejamesbooks.bsky.social. "As the past cannot be changed, I find the resistance of neat endings hopeful."

COWBOY PARK, the new poetry collection from our contributor Eduardo Martínez-Leyva, just went into a second printing...check it out!

I recently had an MRI during a week when my preschooler was listening to La Bamba on repeat. I'm so grateful to have a poem about that experience in the current issue of @epochliterary.com!

Received my contributor copy of @epochliterary.com latest issue with my story called Untouchables. Thanks to @jrobertlennon.com and other staff! www.epochliterary.com/featuredfict...

We've got a new blog piece from our correspondent KP Vogel, who attended a conference of Fernando Pessoa Scholars last year. "If Pessoa’s author was God, that author might merely be the creation of yet another Author, farther removed, and so on. Pessoas all the way up, so to speak."

People are asking about the free weekend. There is indeed one this month, just keep checking back every Saturday!

Thanks to editor @jrobertlennon.com and @epochliterary.com for including my odd little piece "Nineteen Footnotes on a Poem About My Marriage" as a featured essay in the Fall 2025 issue. I'm grateful to be part of such an impressive collection. You can find it at www.epochliterary.com/featuredessay

“Anything can be born.” Martha Zweig #poetry @epochliterary.com

We are open for subs!

Volume 72, Issue 2 is out now! 192pp. Cover art is Transit, Acrylic gouache paint on paper, by David Pjecha. Stop by the shop for a print ($10) or PDF ($7) copy. Complete contributor list in the image alt. Subs for 73.1 open in a week! www.epochliterary.com/archive

How can you not read a poem by a guy named Ed Skoog?

The website is now updated with a few selected pieces from the forthcoming issue. Subscription copies will go out in a couple of weeks, and the issue will go up for sale on the site. Also, we open for subs August 1!

Coming soon

Today on the blog, assistant editor Imogen Osborne interviews poet Tom Bailey, at the publication of his new pamphlet, PLEASE DO NOT TOUCH OR FEED THE HORSES (the title poem appeared in EPOCH 70.1). "I think there's a poetry to misnaming things and being wrong."

Hey #AWP25 attendees, we will be at bookfair today, table T832! Come check out the new issue, buy a tote, and meet the editors.