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Post by moira on Nov 2, 2008 16:06:10 GMT 2
Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review www.borderlands.org/
Intro / background / mission /history of your 'zine:
Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review is a literary journal based in Austin, Texas that publishes poetry along with photographs, reviews and essays.
Our four-color cover features the work of area artists. The journal's mission is to publish work of merit that shows an awareness of connection -- historical, social, political and spiritual.
Borderlands is a national publication with a special interest in supporting Texas and other southwestern poets and artists through publication and public readings. The journal is funded in part by the City of Austin Cultural Funding Program and the Texas Commission on the Arts.
Genres:
Poetry, photography, artwork, reviews, and essays
Editors/owner:
Director: Ramona Cearly Board of Directors: Ramona Cearly, Deborah Akers, Christine Gilbert, and Anissa Housley Founders: D'Arcy Randall, Liz Garton Scanlon, Dorothy Barnett, Hazel Ward, Lynn Gilbert, Pamela Cook and Alice Batt. Editors: Editors rotate. Recent editors include Alice Batt and Deborah Akers; the current editor is Katherine Durham Oldmixon.
Example piece:
The web audio project: hear readings and interviews with Texas women poets Wendy Barker, Naomi Shihab Nye, Jill Essbaum, and others.
Note:
The focus of the Spring/Summer 2009 issue is ekphrastic poetry. The editor is Katherine Durham Oldmixon.
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