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 Amaranth Borsuk is the author, with programmer Brad Bouse, of Between Page and Screen (Siglio Press, 2012), an augmented reality book of poems, and Handiwork (Slope Editions, 2012), winner of the 2012 Slope Book Prize. Abra, a book of conjoined poems written with Kate Durbin, is forthcoming from ZG Press. Her poems have recently appeared in Gulf Coast, CutBank, Colorado Review, SPECS, and The Destroyer. She has a Ph.D. in literature and creative writing from USC and is currently a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in the Humanities at MIT, where she works and teaches at the intersection of print and digital media.
Tina Brown Celona is completing a Ph.D. in poetry at the University of Denver. She is the author of The Real Moon of Poetry and Other Poems (Fence Books, 2002) and Snip Snip! (Fence Books, 2006). Her poems have recently appeared in Action, Yes, Octopus and Colorado Review, and in the anthology Gurlesque: The New Grrly, Grotesque, Burlesque Poetics (Saturnalia, 2010).
Oisín Curran grew up in Maine and now lives in Montréal with his wife and son. His novel Mopus was published by Counterpath Press in 2008.
Kate Dougherty lives in Chicago, where she received an MFA from Columbia College and is currently studying library and information science at Dominican University. Recent poems appear in Fourteen Hills, Word For/Word, Handsome, and Bone Bouquet.
Farrah Field is the author of Rising (Four Way Books, 2009) and the chapbook Parents (Immaculate Disciples Press, 2011). Her work has recently appeared or is forthcoming in Sink Review, Sixth Finch, and Fou, and two of her poems were included in The Best American Poetry 2011. She lives in Brooklyn, where she co-hosts the event series Yardmeter Editions and is co-owner of Berl’s Brooklyn Poetry Shop. Her second book of poetry is forthcoming from Four Way in 2012.
Kevin Holden is the author of two chapbooks, Alpine (White Queen) and Identity (Cannibal Books). His work has been published in many magazines and journals, and is forthcoming in the anthology The Arcadia Project from Ahsahta Press. He also translates poetry from Russian and French.
Gregory Howard has published work in Birkensnake, Tarpaulin Sky, elimae, and Hotel St. George, among others. He is an assistant professor of English and creative writing at the University of Maine.
Paul Killebrew was born and raised in Nashville, Tennessee. He is the author of Flowers (Canarium 2010), and he currently resides in Louisiana, where he is a staff attorney at Innocence Project New Orleans.
Noelle Kocot is the author of five collections of poetry, including Poem for the End of Time and Other Poems (Wave, 2006), Sunny Wednesday (Wave, 2009) and The Bigger World (Wave, 2011); the discography Damon’s Room (Wave, 2010); and a book of translations, Poet by Defaut (Wave, 2011), of the French poet Tristan Corbière. She has received awards from numerous organizations, including the National Endowment for the Arts, the Fund for Poetry, the American Poetry Review, and the Academy of American Poets. Born and raised in Brooklyn, she now lives in New Jersey and teaches writing in New York.
Dan Magers’s first book of poems, Partyknife, will be published in 2012 by Birds, LLC. He is co-founder and co-editor of Sink Review, an online poetry journal, as well as founder and editor of Immaculate Disciples Press, a handmade chapbook press focused on poetry and visual arts collaborations. He lives in Brooklyn.
Aubrie Marrin’s poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Pequod, Western Humanities Review, Guernica, and Colorado Review. She is a graduate of New York University, where she received the Thomas Wolfe Memorial Poetry Prize, and earned her MFA in poetry from Columbia University in 2005. She was a finalist for the 2012 Lexi Rudnitsky First Book Prize. Born and raised in upstate New York, she currently lives and works in Brooklyn.
Patrick Morrissey is the author of Transparency (Cannibal, 2009). He lives in Chicago.
Michael Newton’s gallery reviews appear regularly in Harp & Altar. He also conducts tours of New York’s contemporary art galleries; find him online at www.loculis.com.
Jenny Nichols lives in Providence, RI, where she is currently trying to figure out a couple of Kris Kristofferson songs on a church organ.
Sampson Starkweather is a founding editor of Birds, LLC, an independent poetry press. He is the author of Self Help Poems, The Heart is Green From So Much Waiting, City of Moths, and The Photograph. He works at the Center for the Humanities at the CUNY Graduate Center, where he helps organize the Annual Chapbook Festival and Lost & Found: The CUNY Poetics Document Initiative.
Mamie Tinkler’s recent group exhibitions include “Day of the Locust” at White Flag Projects in St. Louis and “Drawings, Drawings, Photographs” at Rachel Uffner Gallery and “Painted Pictures” at Blackston Gallery, both in New York. Born in Tennessee, she received her BA from Columbia University and her MFA from Hunter College, and now lives and works in Queens.
Jared White lives in Brooklyn, where he co-curates Yardmeter Editions and has recently founded a bookstore, Berl’s Brooklyn Poetry Shop. His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Esque, Coconut, We Are So Happy to Know Something, Action,Yes, and elsewhere. His chapbook Yellowcake appeared in Narwhal from Cannibal Books in 2009. He blogs sometimes at jaredswhite.blogspot.com. Harp & Altar is a journal of writing and ideas based in Brooklyn, New York, and St. Louis, Missouri. Founded by Keith Newton in 2006, Harp & Altar originally ran for ten issues until 2013. Starting in 2021, the journal has been revived with the same editorial mission to publish innovative writing and emerging writers. We currently accept unsolicited submissions of poetry and fiction by email only. Please send all submissions attached in a single document to harpandaltar@gmail.com. For essays, reviews, and other critical writing, please send a query first before submitting any work. Enter either Poetry, Fiction, or Query in the subject line of the email, along with your last name. April 9, 2011
Hosted by Switchyard Studios, The Switch event series welcomes Harp & Altar to Portland, with readings by
Zachary SchomburgJesse Lichtenstein
Michael Zeiss
and music from
Alina Estelle Hardin
6 PM at Switchyard Studios
109 SE Salmon St.
Portland, ORSwitchyard Studios
Dec. 10, 2010
The Poetry Project hosts a reading to celebrate the release of the eighth issue of Harp & Altar and the publication of The Harp & Altar Anthology, with a brief talk about the magazine by Keith Newton and readings by
Jared WhiteShane Book
10 PM at The Poetry Project
at St. Marks Church
131 E. 10th St., New YorkPoetry Project
Nov. 30, 2010
The Literary Arts Program at Brown University presents Small Press Periodical Publishing: An Editor Panel and Reading featuring editors of the journals Birkensnake (Joanna Ruocco), Conjunctions (Brian Evenson), Harp & Altar (Keith Newton), Paris Review (Lorin Stein), and Tarpaulin Sky (Joanna Howard).
4 PM at McCormack Family Theater
70 Brown Street
Providence, RI
Literary Arts Program
June 19, 2010
The Yardmeter Editions reading series celebrates the launch of The Harp & Altar Anthology and the magazine's seventh issue, with readings by
Ana BožičevićDan Hoy
Eileen Myles
Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi
with artwork by
Lorene Taurerewa
and music from
Miracles
6:30 PM at Shelton Walsmith's studio
267 Douglass St., Brooklyn
Yardmeter Editions
The Harp & Altar Anthology
Harp & Altar and Ellipsis Press announce the publication of The Harp & Altar Anthology, a collection of poetry and prose from the magazine’s first six issues, edited by Keith Newton and Eugene Lim.
See the Ellipsis Press website for more information and order a copy now: Ellipsis Press
BUY April 8 to 10, 2010
With the book in hand, Harp & Altar and Ellipsis Press will be at the 2010 AWP Bookfair in Denver, Colorado, from April 8 to 10. Come by the Ellipsis Press table and join us at the Historic Falcon event on Thursday, April 8, where Harp & Altar poets Julia Cohen, Kate Greenstreet, Justin Marks, and Linnea Ogden will be reading.
Historic Falcon
Thursday, April 8
6:30 PM at Mercury Cafe
2199 California St., Denver
Feb. 13, 2009
Harp & Altar and Mad Hatters' Review present readings by four fiction writers:
Joshua Cohen
Tim Horvath
Joanna Howard
Mary Mackey
7 PM at KGB
85 E. 4th St., 2nd Fl, New York Dec. 6 & 7, 2008
Look for the Ellipsis Press table at the New York Center for Independent Publishing's 21st Annual Indie & Small Press Book Fair.
11 AM - 5 PM at the Library of the General Society of Mechanics and Tradesmen
20 W. 44th St., New York
Oct. 16, 2008
Ellipsis Press celebrates the release of the novels Waste and Fog & Car, with readings by
Eugene Marten
Eugene Lim
7:30 PM at Freebird Books
123 Columbia St., Brooklyn
May 17, 2008
Cannibal, Harp & Altar, Saltgrass, and Tight host the Poetry Goose Up! at East Coast Aliens, presented by the Burning Chair reading series, with readings by
Ana Božičević
John Coletti
Kate Greenstreet
Sarah Girdley
Katy Henriksen
Shannon Jonas
Jennifer Kronovet
Mark Lamoureux
Timothy Liu
Chris Martin
Jess Mynes
Cate Peebles
Christopher Rizzo
Matthew Rohrer
Frank Sherlock
Joanna Sondheim
Shanxing Wang
Rebecca Wolff
and music from
The Hadacol
and projections by
Stephen Hilger
3 PM to 8 PM at East Coast Aliens
216 Franklin St., Brooklyn
Doors 2:30 PM, $6
Ellipsis Press
Ellipsis Press, a new publisher of experimental fiction co-founded by Harp & Altar's fiction editor, is now accepting manuscript submissions. Information and guidelines are available at www.ellipsispress.com.
Dec. 2, 2007
Harp & Altar celebrates the release of the third issue, with fiction readings by
Lynn Crawford
Corey Frost
Johannah Rodgers
5 PM at Unnameable Books
456 Bergen St., Brooklyn
Sept. 16, 2007
Shane Book reads as part of the Brooklyn's Own event at the second annual Brooklyn Book Festival, along with readers from A Public Space, Tin House, and Archipelago Books. 5 PM in the Community Room at Brooklyn Borough Hall
April 29, 2007
The Marquise Dance Hall Poetry Series celebrates the release of the second issue, with readings by Stefania Heim Thomas Kane 7 PM at Marquise Dance Hall 291 Grand St., Brooklyn
Oct. 26, 2006 A launch party for the release of the first issue, with readings by Andrea Baker Jessica Baran Michael Zeiss 7 PM at Triskelion Arts 118 N. 11th St., 3rd Fl, Brooklyn
artwork credit:
Mamie Tinkler, from Every Black Congressman Through 2007 (Part 1), 2009, watercolor and gouache on paper, 35" x 45". ________________________________ Harp & Altar ventures into the brave new world of print with The Harp & Altar Anthology! With work selected from the first six issues of the magazine, the anthology includes more than 65 authors. See the Ellipsis Press website for more information and order a copy now: Ellipsis Press
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