Peripheries No. 5 sold out
Peripheries is a non-profit literary and arts journal established in 2017 that publishes artistic work that is, broadly understood, "peripheral"; work that explores the interstices between discourses, traditions, languages, forms, and genres. In this spirit, along with publishing poetry, visual art, and short stories, our scope is expansive, including translations, interviews, creative nonfiction, reviews, aphorisms, recipes, instructions, and manifestos. We encourage formal experimentation that is in a mutually-informing, organic relation to the artist’s topic or question, which might also explore the peripheral: the marginal, the incidental, the boundary-experience, the tangential, the borderline, and particularly the metaxical spaces (that both attract and repel) between artistry, philosophical speculation, mystical experience and religious traditions. We are excited to expand these discussions in whatever way is meaningful to you and bring your myriad interpretations into dialogue on our pages.
Peripheries is proud to publish emerging writers, alongside established luminaries. We invite new artists to submit their work, including those under-represented in traditional literary circles.
Peripheries is published annually by Harvard Divinity School’s Center for the Study of World Religions under the supervision of its director Charles M. Stang.
Poetry
Martha Collins, Nick Flynn, Donald Revell, Osip Mandelstam (Translated by Christian Wiman), G. C. Waldrep, Andrew Morgan, Lynn Powell, Lidia Yuknavitch, Chen Chen, Josh Tvrdy, Jose-Luis Moctezuma, Poppy Livingstone, Alyssa Moore, Caroline Kanner, Steven Churchill, Lawdenmarc Decamora, Destiny O. Birdsong, Rachael Petersen, Harryette Mullen, Thomas Casalaspi, Toby Altman, Alicia Wright, Angelo Mao, Kythe Heller, Luciana Arbus-Scandiffio, Keene Carter, Ryan Paradiso, Charles O. Hartman, Ben Bellet, Jo O’Lone-Hahn, Adalber Salas Hernández (Translated by Robin Meyers), Darius Atefat-Peckham
Guest Edited Folio
Musical Events
John Ashbery, Frédéric Forte, Mark So, Sarah Hughes, Audra Wolowiec, IONE, Rajna Swaminathan, Joy Guidry, Don Mee Choi, Joseph Kudirka, Catherine Christer Hennix, Eva-Maria Houben, Nomi Epstein, Jonathan Leal, Michiko Theurer, Miya Masaoka, Ganavya Doraiswamy, Rajna Swaminathan, Anya Yermakova, Manfred Werder, Chiari Saccone, Deborah Walker, Giuseppe Chiari, Antoine Beuger, Ryoko Akama
Prose
Elizabeth Walztoni, Rachel Blum, Scott Aumont, Marija Peričić, Annie Wu, Kyra Mo, Natalie Häusler, Kerri Sonnenberg, Olga Vilkotskaya
Art
Susan Swartz, Jessica Cannon, Deborah Zlotsky, Chris Barnard, Harriet Korman, Yevgeniya Baras, Nicholas Scrimenti, Joshua Marsh, Kyle Staver, Eunice Sanchez, Stephanie Pierce, Erin Castellan, Golnar Adili, Hana Yilma Godine, Natalie Häusler, Jamie Romanet
Interviews + Reviews
Alex Braslavsky (with Destiny O. Birdsong), Alex Braslavsky (reviewing Angelo Mao), Rebecca Doverspike (reviewing Kythe Heller)