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
Congratulations to Kathy Graber, whose poem “Self Portrait with No Internal Navigation,” from our Spring 2011 issue, was chosen by Mark Doty to appear in Best American Poetry 2012.
House Bartender: Each new issue will feature an editor who will lend a few descriptive words at the head of each drink category - a recipe, an anecdote, a review. The Spring 2012 House Bartender is Managing Editor and Translations Editor, Michael Broek.
Announcements
Featured Libation: “When my wife leaves the room I go quickly to the refrigerator, take the bottle of white wine from the rack inside the door, take a big cold swallow and put it back. By the time she has returned, I am back in my chair, at work, with a thick lump of warmth spreading in my belly. You probably think I am beyond such pettiness and subterfuge. But I have always been like this: halved, and then doubled; splintered, short of breath; holding onto the dark with one hand; feeling my way forward with the other.” - Tony Hoagland