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EPOCH@epochliterary· 9d

Volume 73, Number 2, our fall issue, is out! Subscribers and contributors should be receiving their copies soon; click through to buy a print copy for ten bucks or a PDF for seven. www.epochliterary.com/shop

Four copies of EPOCH 73.2 standing upon an open box of same, with issues from the 1940s and 1950s in the background

EPOCH@epochliterary· 26d

...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

EPOCH@epochliterary· Dec 19

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.

The cover of EPOCH 73.1, an arboreal triptych by Maxim Peter Griffin

Volume 73, Number 1. D.M. Aderibigbe, Hussain Ahmed, Miriam Åkervall, Amir Ahmadi Arian, Jill Barrie, Alexandra Bernhardt, Shlagha Borah, TR Brady, Hedgie Choi, Brock Clarke, Kami Enzie, Ana Emilia Felker, David Ehmcke, Rigoberto González, Kimberly Grey, Maxim Peter Griffin, Angela Hui, Kaley Hutter, Dabin Jeong, Jack Saebyok Jung, Rebecca Lilly, Marie Lundquist, Tom McAllister, Moon Boyoung, Carl Moon, Robert Morgan, Aidan O’Brien, Adam O’Fallon Price, Oscar Oswald, Derek Otsuji, Daniel Peña, Claire Polders, Josh Russell, Tiago Sousa, Leora Thornton, Stacie Turner, Hannah V. Warren, Stella Wong, Yu Hongjun, Christian Yeo Xuan, Teodozia Zarivna, Tanya Žilinskas.

EPOCH@epochliterary· Nov 3

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!

Hi John,

I hope you're doing well. I’m reaching out with a timely opportunity to engage with the growing field of generative AI in a secure and profitable way.

As part of our existing license agreement, your journal content is included in EBSCO’s research databases. We’ve recently been approached by several GenAI companies seeking high-quality, licensed content to train their large language models (LLMs)—creating a new revenue stream for publishers without compromising control or risking misuse.
EBSCO has developed a program that ensures responsible use of your content and offers guaranteed income should your titles be chosen. For each title selected by the LLM, we’re offering:

$0.0004 per word for non-Open Access journals
$0.0001 per word for Open Access journals

This initiative reflects over a year of thoughtful planning. Many of our Publisher Partners have shared that budget pressures are driving the need for new revenue sources, and we’ve designed this program to meet that need while protecting the integrity of your content.

Please let me know if you’d be interested in discussing further.

Warm regards,

EPOCH@epochliterary· Nov 3

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-...

EPOCH@epochliterary· Oct 30

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.

EPOCH 2025 Pushcart nominations
Sandra Dolores Gómez Amador
"All of his knives," poetry, issue 72.1
Steve Himmer
"The Spider's Share," essay, issue 72.1
Tom McAllister
"1993, 2017, and 2022," essay, issue 72.1
Pegah Ouji
"Untouchables," fiction, issue 72.2
FM Stringer
"Secular Prayer at the End of Daylight Saving Time,"
poetry, issue 72.2
Justin Taylor
"Wild Silence," fiction, issue 72.2

EPOCH@epochliterary· Sep 2

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

EPOCH@epochliterary· Aug 25

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

EPOCH@epochliterary· Jul 25

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

Greg Ames, Aldo Amparan, Kristof Anetta, Brittany Atkinson, Remy Barnes, Danny Cassidy, Ariel Courage, Laine Derr, Renesha Dhanraj, Taylor Franson-Thiel, Elisa Gabbert, Lily Jarman-Reisch, Christopher Kennedy, Erin Malone, Cary Marcous, Michael Martin, Betsy Mitchell Martinez, Pegah Ouji, Weijia Pan, Micah Perks, David Pjecha, Bryan Price, Stephen Thomas Roberts, Bee Sacks, Gabriel Schicchi, Greg Sendi, Brandon Shimoda, Murzban F. Shroff, Ed Skoog, Lisa Russ Spaar, FM Stringer, Justin Taylor, Emma Cairns Watson, Korey Williams.

EPOCH@epochliterary· Jun 17

Coming soon

EPOCH Volume 72, Number 2. Cover painting of kids riding the subway.

FICTION
Renesha Dhanraj
Remy Barnes
Kristof Anetta
Murzban F. Shroff
Justin Taylor
Pegah Ouji
Bee Sacks
Greg Ames
Gabriel da Silva-Schicchi
Emma Cairns Watson
ESSAYS
Greg Sendi
Micah Perks
POETRY
Aldo Amparán
Brandon Shimoda
Weijia Pan
Ed Skoog
Betsy Mitchell Martinez
Christopher Kennedy
Bryan D. Price
Danny Cassidy
Elisa Gabbert
Laine Derr
Cary Marcous
Erin Malone
Lisa Russ Spaar
Stephen Thomas Roberts
Michael Martin
Korey Williams
Brittany Atkinson
Lily Jarman-Reisch
Taylor Franson-Thiel
FM Stringer
COMIC
Ariel Courage
COVER ART
David Pjecha

EPOCH@epochliterary· Mar 27

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

EPOCH@epochliterary· Mar 4

We're pleased to announce that the past TWENTY YEARS of EPOCH are is available in the form of high-quality PDF downloads, $7 for the new, larger format; $5 for the old, slimmer ones. www.epochliterary.com/archive

EPOCH@epochliterary· Feb 17

Our Spring 2025 issue is out now! Print copies $10 shipped in the US, $7 for a PDF. Etgar Keret, Juan Martinez, Sarah Kokernot, Adam O'Fallon Price, Tom McAllister, Steve Himmer, Jiawei, Rebecca Morgan Frank, Hai-Dang Phan, and many more www.epochliterary.com

EPOCH@epochliterary· Feb 17

Today we have a new interview with George Saunders, by assistant editor Otis Fuqua! www.epochliterary.com/blog/intervi...

EPOCH@epochliterary· Jan 31

Finally, this issue's featured essay is actually three short essays, from @tmcallister.bsky.social's forthcoming collection IT ALL FELT IMPOSSIBLE www.epochliterary.com/featuredessay

Cover of Tom McAllister's IT ALL FELT IMPOSSIBLE: 42 YEARS IN 42 ESSAYS

EPOCH@epochliterary· Jan 31

We've also got a new story from Etgar Keret, translated from the hebrew by Jessica Cohen: "The Hallway" www.epochliterary.com/featuredfict...

Etgar Keret, balancing books on his head. Photo by Lielle Sand

The door was double-locked. Meir turned the key gently, slowly, trying not to make any noise. The last thing he needed was for Nirit to wake up now. He was trashed, and that felt pretty nice, but if Nirit woke up it would instantly stop feeling nice. It’s not that she’d make a scene or anything. She wasn’t the dramatic type. But the half-asleep half-disappointed look she’d give him before going back to bed would be all it took for the good part of being drunk to evaporate, leaving him slightly nauseous and very forlorn.

He stood near the door, waiting for his eyes to get used to the dark. He still couldn’t see much—just the silhouette of a figure wearing a coat and hat, waiting for him, motionless, at the end of the hallway. It was startling. Especially the way the figure was completely frozen, as if it were trying to blend in with the wall so it could ambush him. He wanted to tell the figure that he could see it there and that if it didn’t reveal itself and explain what it was doing in his apartment in the middle of the night, he would call the police. He was about to cry out, but he was afraid to wake Nirit, so he opted for a different plan: instead of confronting the mysterious figure, he would simply lie down on the floor near the front door, at a safe distance from the man in the coat, and have a little doze. By morning, he was sure, the whole thing would be sorted out.

EPOCH@epochliterary· Jan 31

We've added the TOC and cover of 72.1 to the site, along with three sneak previews of the issue! First, a new poem by Elaine Liu, "Roche Limit" www.epochliterary.com/featuredpoetry

She wore red the day of her wedding
like every woman in this family,
twenty-four and not yet ripe

but already rotten. Seasons stretched
between fingers, strings of dormant yeast
hung from the village to the moon—

telephone lines for her husband to perch on,
his nose hooked, wires tucked beneath nails.
She tells me desire takes ten yuan

and some change to ferment,
that’s a dozen years
for a human. That’s a lifetime

for a girl. She’s seen one eclipse
and still imagines being that whole.
A veinous omen, complete and lunar.

EPOCH@epochliterary· Jan 14

TOC for 72.1, headed to the printer next week. Featuring @adamoprice.bsky.social @mikemeginnis.bsky.social @tmcallister.bsky.social @shimmer.bsky.social @keemoart.bsky.social and many others

FICTION
4 Rare & Precious Antiques by Sarah Kokernot
20 The Women on the Night Shift by Frank X. Christmas
33
My Wife Is the Dead Wife by Nick Mandernach
42 Erin, the Local Version by Edmundo Paz Soldán translated from the Spanish by Jenna Tang
70
Intimate Crimes; Fluffy, Flurby, or Flobo;
Putting Off; Start at the Start; Leitmotif?; and Frogs Made Sense by Shane Kowalski
80 The Irritant by Mike Meginnis
93 Leaving Shandong by Olivia Cheng
118
English Major by Josh Russell
122 Crater by Tracy Hill
139 The Writers Room by Adam O'Fallon Price
166 The Hallway by Etgar Keret
translated from the Hebrew by Jessica Cohen
184 Commission Piece by Juan Martinez
ESSAYS
26
54
157
170
The Spider's Share by Steve Himmer
Turkentaube by Valer Popa
106 1993, 2017, and 2022 by Tom McAllister
Crisis Line by Olivia Fantini
Under Our Own Power by Denali DeGraf

POETRY
18
25
32
Scheherazade by Selena Spier
Fortune & Favor by Emma Bolden
Ruby Red Trout by Jiawei translated from the Chinese by Liang Yujing
41
Lily and the Bull by Sarah Davis
53
La Cegua Comes to Florida by Danilo Marin
68 Skywriting and I rattle myself into the mad light by Cristina Correa
76 Laika by Dana Koster
77 Firepit Embers Spark Wildfires by Richard Gallagher
91 Roche Limit by Elaine Liu
103
Diorama by Claire Wahmanholm
105 Fly to Venus Flytrap: A Love Letter by Hollie Dugas
116 Sky Excavation by Hai-Dang Phan
119
All of his knives, Lychee, and Sacrilegious by Sandra Dolores Gómez Amador
135
Righteous by D.T. Holt
136 The DAling Pla by Metaphysical Beings
164
Me Three by Sophia Schlesinger
169
To Be Changed So Quickly by Mary Gilliland
183
Love Song for the Year of Dionysus by Lizzy Ke Polishan
188
Fishing by Patrick Kindig
189 Contributor Notes
COVER
This Is Us When We Dream, 2023, acrylic and ink on canvas, 20" x 20", by Keemo

EPOCH@epochliterary· Dec 3

72.1 is now officially 🛌. Out in February, and featuring:

Sandra Dolores Gómez Amador
Emma Bolden
Olivia Cheng
Frank X. Christmas
Cristina Correa
Sarah Davis
Denali DeGraf
Hollie Dugas
Olivia Fantini
Rebecca Morgan Frank
Richard Gallagher
Mary Gilliland
Tracy Hill
D.T. Holt
Jiawei (translated by Liang Yujing)
Keemo
Etgar Keret (translated by Jessica Cohen)
Partick Kindig
Sarah Kokernot
Dana Koster
Shane Kowalski
Elaine Liu
Nick Mandernach
Danilo Marin
Juan Martinez
Tom McAllister
Mike Meginnis
Edmundo Paz-Soldan (translated by Jenna Tang)
Hai-Dang Phan
Lizzy Ke Polishan
Valer Popa
Adam O’Fallon Price
Josh Russell
Sophia Schlesinger
Selena Spier
Claire Wahmanholm

EPOCH@epochliterary· Dec 3

Today on the blog, poetry MFA candidate Ella Shively interviews paranormal romance writer Paige LaVoie, author of MOTHMAN IN LOVE www.epochliterary.com/blog/intervi...

EPOCH@epochliterary· Nov 25

(reposting b/c of a typo!) Our 2024 Pushcart nominees: Catherine Nichols, “The Middle Ages”  Zahid Rafiq, “In Small Boxes”  Chanda Feldman, “As a Side Note to a Side Note in the History”  Ed Skoog, “Sestina: Last Days”  Rosalind Margulies, “The Supervillain”  Vivek Sharma, “Shree Ganeshaya Namah”

Our 2024 Pushcart nominees are:

Catherine Nichols, “The Middle Ages,” essay, issue 71.1

 Zahid Rafiq, “In Small Boxes,” fiction, issue 71.1

 Chanda Feldman, “As a Side Note to a Side Note in the History,” poetry, issue 71.1

 Ed Skoog, “Sestina: Last Days,” poetry, issue 71.1

 Rosalind Margulies, “The Supervillain,” fiction, issue 71.2

 Vivek Sharma, “Shree Ganeshaya Namah,” poetry, issue 71.2

EPOCH@epochliterary· Jul 30

We open for subs at midnight, Thurs August 1, and will be open all month! $1 of the $3 fee will go, as always, to the Cornell Prison Education Program, which teaches writing in upstate New York prisons. We pay $100–$500. Watch this space for the upcoming free weekend! epoch.submittable.com/submit

EPOCH@epochliterary· Jul 8

Our PDF downloads, by the way, are VERY cheap, look spectacular on a tablet, and contain all the content of the print issue. Stop by the shop for copies of the new issue and a bunch of back issues, too. www.epochliterary.com/shop

EPOCH@epochliterary· Jul 8

Our Fall 2024 issue is out now! Visit epochliterary.com to order a copy (print or PDF), or subscribe. Click ALT for the full list of contributors.

EPOCH 71.2, featuring T. Abeyta, Amir Ahmadi Arian, MS Baker, Bruce Bond, Rosa Alice Branco, Alyx Chandler, Heather Christle, Lisa Compo, Michael Day, Stephen Dixon, Lara Egger, Emily Ellis, Ge Fang, Jordan Hamel, Lamar Herrin, Alex Higley, Alexis Levitin, Rebecca Lilly, Lu Min, Court Ludwick, Rosalind Margulies, Ioanna Mavrou, Mohammad Mokhtari, Tim Molloy, Susan Leslie Moore, Sandra Newman, Nome Emeka Patrick, Emily Rosko, Amy Rowland, Leonor Scliar-Cabral, Vivek Sharma, Jennifer Sutherland, Daniel Uncapher, KP Vogell, Jonathan Wong-Hayden, and Sijing Yang.

EPOCH@epochliterary· Jun 11

71.2 is coming, and here's the proof

EPOCH@epochliterary· Feb 19

Today on the blog: a review of former editor Emma Catherine Perry's extraordinary BLOCKS WORLD, her debut poetry collection, from @greatplacebooks.bsky.social. "Should we look to our own creations to examine ourselves?" www.epochliterary.com/blog/review-...

BLOCKS WORLD, by Emma Catherine Perry, from Great Place Books

Emma Catherine Perry, straight chillin by the lake

EPOCH@epochliterary· Feb 7

The EPOCH staff posed behind their AWP table

EPOCH@epochliterary· Feb 7

AWP bookfair visitors, find us here at table T1736! We've got totes, stickers, and the last few years of print issues, including the new one, just out last week.

Map of AWP 2024, showing the EPOCH table, T1736

The cover of EPOCH 71.1, featuring a painting by Emilie Gleason of a mustachioed man smoking while watching television

EPOCH@epochliterary· Feb 5

New on the blog: Assistant Editor @seansam.bsky.social interviews Andrew Felsher, co-founder and editor of 128 LIT, an innovative, international new print and digital magazine. They talk publishing, community, numerology, and the NBA. www.epochliterary.com/blog/intervi...

EPOCH@epochliterary· Jan 29

We've got a new interview from editor Aishvarya Arora up on the blog: they spoke with poet and Cornell PhD alum Kelly Hoffer about her new book, UNDERSHORE, and its extraordinary re-creation as a cyanotype quilt. www.epochliterary.com/blog/intervi...