Say Hello to Volume 21!

Read and view, comrades!

You’re not 21 again/yet, but the next best thing is here, and that’s volume 21 of Packingtown Review! The party bringing you images, prose, and verse are: Christopher Barnes, Barbara Daniels, Meredith MacLeod Davidson, Jeffrey Dreiblatt, Paul Éluard, Shawna Ervin, Kevin Fisher, Jeffrey Hartnett, William Ogden Haynes, Emily Hegland, James Croal Jackson, Monique Harris, Casey Killingsworth, Donna Kosiba, BEE LB, dan raphael, Linda Scheller, Noelle Shoemate, and Terry Trowbridge. A special shout-out to this issue’s translators Ross Belot and Sara Burant!

Happy Halloween! Vol. 20 is here.

“How do you not share human experiences?” Mario Garcia asks rhetorically in the new issue of Packingtown Review and we cannot agree more. Words and images by Mario dell’Arco, Karineh Arutyunova, Carol Barrett, Tara Deal, Mario Garcia, Deborah H. Doolittle, Martin Dyar, Sara Eddy, Richard Hedderman, Kathleen Hellen, Vanessa Couto Johnson, Susanna Lang, Naomi Bess Leimsider, Paul Martinez-Pompa, Crescenzo del Monte, Jennie Neighbors, Thomas Piekarski, George Ryan, Pattabi Seshadri, Rimas Uzgiris, Jean Wolff, James Wyshynski, and Yan An. This issue’s translators: Marc Alan Di Martino, Chen Du & Xisheng Chen, and Lena Mandel.

Volume 19, Spring 2023 Is Here!

Volume 19 brings you another troubled, beautiful spring via images, prose, and verse by: Nidhi Agrawal, Yuan Changming, Adam Day, Lux Eterna, Zebulon Huset, Zuzanna Ginczanka, Grace Glass, John Martino, Julian Mithra, Jeff Mock, Alexander Perez, Nadya Pittendrigh, Carson Pytell, Bùi Minh Quốc, Jelena Savić, and John Walser. All hail this issue’s translators: Alex Braslavsky and J. R. Forman. Read it!

Grab a plate! It’s the Fall 2022 issue!

Volume 18 proudly presents: fiction by Robert Granader and Ricardo Guerra de la Peña, art by Richard Hanus, Nataša Knežević, and Bill Wolak, and poetry by Morgan Boyer, Garin Cycholl, Deborah H. Doolittle, Leisha Douglas, Robert Evory, Mary Warren Foulk, Kelly Houle, Josef Krebs, Al Maginnes, DS Maolalai, Pete Miller, Joshua Ruffin, Cliff Saunders, Brendan Todt, John Tustin, and Dana Tenille Weekes. Special thanks to translator Tyler Gebauer! Read it!

Pop! It’s Spring

In Volume 17, we give you poetry by Ron L. Dowell, Nicolas Garcia, David Groulx, Elizabeth Knight, Laurie Lessen Reiche, Barbara Ryder-Levinson, Elise Swanson Ochoa, and Hannah Jane Weber, as well as prose by Anjali Arulpragasam Ashley, Jill Dalton, Jean Duffy, Sally Naylor, Eric Sommer, Regina Thomas, and Kim Venkataraman. Special thanks to our editor-at-large Ivica Žabić for designing the cover featuring art by Andrea Worthey, whose work we feature in this issue. Read it!

The 2021 Fall Harvest Is Live!

In Volume 16, we feature our cover artist Caroline Morrell along with prose by Susan Taylor Chehak, Cris Mazza, J. Adams Oaks, and Rochelle Williams, and poetry by Leroy D. Bean, Doris Ferleger, Alec Hershman, Alison Hicks, Zebulon Huset, A. Loudermilk, Jim Klein, Andrew Kozma, Brandy McKenzie, Pitambar Naik, Rachel Tramonte, and John Walser. Special thanks to our editor-at-large Ivica Žabić for designing the cover. Read it.

Careful, It’s Hot! (Volume 15 Is Here)

Volume 15 is a generous helping of: prose by Brandon Hansen and Ángela McEwan-Alvarado; art by Richard Hanus, Gretchen Hasse, and David Dodd Lee; and poetry by Emily Bornstein, Sam Cherubin, Holly Day, Ian Thomas Egan, Heikki Huotari, Nicholas Karavatos, Sean Lause, Beth McDermott, Daniel Neff, Martina Reisz Newberry, Suzanne O’Connell, Nick Rattner, Robin Ray, and Rochelle Jewel Shapiro. Special thanks to translator Erin Riddle. Read it! (Cover image: Gretchen Hasse)

Packingtown Review: The Manifesto

Comrades, sisters, brothers, and members of the human family,

We have long joined the struggle to destroy the *imperialist white supremacist capitalist heteropatriarchy.*

We resist sentimental urges of the national and canonical.

We refuse joyless institutional programs.

Non-affiliated and promiscuous, we embrace translation, adaptation, outsider art, and experimentation.

We offer radical solidarity with the subaltern. Skeptical, paradoxical, and always with a sense of humor, we believe that another world is possible.

photo from @Xicanisma

 *All glory to bell hooks for this term.

Vol. 24, Fall 2024 Is Here!

Consider this your sign to take a literary break. Volume 24 features art, poetry, fiction, and nonfiction by Kevin B, Mark D. Baumgartner, Alexandra Burack, Yosa Buson, Ingrid Calderon, Steve Castro, Stevie doCarmo, Darren C. Demaree, Sean Eaton, Jason Fraley, Amanda Stopa Goldstein, Clyde Kessler, Erin Kim, Andrew Kozma, Inna Krasnoper, Brandon Krieg, Tom Laichas, Jennifer Lothrigel, Meghan Malachi, G. H. Mosson, Ellen Rachlin, Mykyta Ryzhykh, Greg Sendi, Charlie Williams. Special thanks to translator Joshua Gage! http://www.packingtownreview.com/

Plagiarism

Each new issue comes with an intro that’s almost entirely plagiarized. Yes, you read that right. It’s composed entirely of phrases from the contributors’ pieces. Intrigued by this literary scandal? Be our human plagiarism checker and find which phrase comes from where.

Short Poem of the Day

“Meditation XVI” by Alessandra Lynch from Packingtown Review, Vol. 1.

Short Poem of the Day

We’re kicking off a series of posts revisiting short poems from issues past. First up, Elizabeth Robinson (author of On Ghosts and more). “Quill (kwill), n.” appears in Vol. 1.