about libations, although we are not above such things. Rather, Mead wants to publish the best poetry, translations, commentary, reviews, and interviews that it can find. The editors pair works they publish with a particular drink category, much as you pair your cream with your coffee, your Maes Pils with your moules frites. Send your most intoxicating work, regardless of subject or form.
We will do the rest.
Photo by Jane Linders
Mead, as you know,
Mead is not literature
is fermented honey. Libations are drinks poured as offerings to the god(s). We intend Mead to be small and explosive, writing we would want to read while waiting at the bar for our lover. Writing that is fermented, burnt, makes some kind of penance, offering, or sacrifice. Has breakage, but tooth. Writing with ropes, legs, residue. Writing that leaves ashes.
Announcements
Our Mead Editors have been on a streak since the Fall. Laura McCullough’s new book Rigger Death & Hoist Another is forthcoming in June from Black Lawrence Press. Suzanne Parker’s Viral, winner of the Kinereth Gensler Award, will be birthed into the world later this Summer from Alice James Books. Kurt Brown’s new book of poems, Time-Bound, was recently published by Tiger Bark Press. Paul Lisicky’s new book, Unbuilt Projects, has just come out from Four Way Books, and Erica Dawson’s second collection of poems, The Small Blades Hurt, will be published by Measure Press in January 2014. Her poem “Back Matter,” originally published in Barrow Street, appeared in Best American Poetry 2012.
We also want to welcome Mihaela Moscaliuc as our new Translations Editor!
And finally, thanks to contributors Tony Hoagland, Nicole Cooley, Timothy Liu, and Jamaal May who read their work at our Mead panel at this year’s AWP Conference in Boston.
Announcements
House Bartender: Each new issue will feature an editor who will lend a few inspired lines to the head of each drink category - a recipe, an anecdote, a review. The Spring 2013 House Bartender is Editor Kurt Brown.
Featured Libation:
“My mother's mother, Angelica, died in 1961 in Argentina before my brothers and I were born, but I've been told by my cousin that on hot nights in Rosario she liked to enjoy clerico (white wine sangria with sugar, strawberries, apples and peaches) on her patio. If time travel were possible that would be my favorite drink to share with her now, her fig and lemon trees, wisteria and gardenia flowers all around us.”
-Adriana Scopino