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SUBMISSIONS close MONDAY. It's a special call, so please read the guidelines before sending poems our way.

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In addition to BOTN nominations earlier this fall, here are Tab Journal's Pushcart nominations. Good luck to our nominees!

“Grotto of Neutrinos” by Paul Brooke | Issue #1 (print, adapted to online)

“You will never lose family” by T. W. Sia | Issue #1 (print, adapted to online)

“First A-S-L Sign-Me Learn | First ASL Sign by Raymond Luczak | Issue #2 (online)

“in memorium” by Kimberly Ann Priest | Issue #2 (online)

“Apostrophe at the Sea” by Abdullah O. Jimoh | Issue #4 (online)

“Whalelore” by Karen Kapoor | Issue #4 (online)

Musings Blog - Tab Journal Categories Exciting News Pushcart & BOTN Nominations 2024 Post author By TABJournal Post date October 10, 2024 Sticky post We are pleased to announce our 2024 nominations for the Pushcart Prize: “Grotto of Neutrinos” by Paul Brooke | Issue #1 (print, adapted to online) “You will never lose fam...

Tab Journal is open for submissions for its next print issue. Read the Special Call, and then send some poems our way.

TAB: The Journal of Poetry & Poetics Submission Manager Tab JournalThe Special Call: Print Issue 2025 is underway. If you don’t see submission forms here, Tab Journal is temporarily closed to new submissions while we catch up.Information about the editorial processTAB: The Journal of Poetry & Poetics welcomes submissions of original poems in English, E...

Tab Journal is excited to announce our nominations for this year’s Best of the Net:

“Shore” by Muiz Ọpẹ́yẹmí Àjàyí (11.3)
“Blood moon stars” by Londeka Mdluli (11.3)
“There are no more butterflies here.” by Adesiyan Oluwapelumi (11.3)
“When I Was Straight” by Dustin Brookshire (11.5)
“Situation of a Bird and Two People” by Yan An, translated by Chen Du and Xisheng Chen (12.2)
“First A-S-L Sign Me-Learn What | My First ASL Sign” by Raymond Luczak (12.2)

We made final decisions for the next issue. It was tough, and it’s going to be an issue of many moods. More info about Tab Journal in weeks to come.

We’re pleased to continue this partnership and bring young California writers to our readers. Give some poems a listen!

Current Issue - Tab Journal The annual, distinctive print issue of Tab: The Journal of Poetry & Poetics engages the reader with poetry as a material object and asks the reader to negotiate between image and text. The design does not assume a traditional role of unobtrusively framing content; instead, design actively shapes the...

We’re running behind at Tab Journal after a tech problem with Submittable’s login. We hope to catch up in the coming weeks. Thanks for your support.

Tomorrow, May 23, is pub day for If in Some Cataclysm. It’s now available for purchase from Glass Lyre Press. I’ll have more info tomorrow about how to order a signed copy with a bookmark directly from me. Tomorrow, I also hope you’ll join me along with Kai Coggin, Lisa Fay Coutley, Sara Henning, and Lynne Thompson to celebrate our five new books—zoom link sign-up in first comment.

And now, for more backstory on this collection. In February 2020, I headed to Ragdale to start a sabbatical. I was exhausted and hadn’t been writing. The previous fall, my husband survived a health threat that kills or significantly disables 2/3 of people. The first two days of my residency, I spent shivering and achy in bed, with little red dots appearing on my legs, all of which I realized in hindsight was a reaction to the shingles vaccine. I feared I’d need to leave. I called my doctor back home. People brought me food—Linda Williams is Ragdale’s amazing chef. I bounced back quickly. I stayed.

I went to the closet under the stairs, printed old poems, and laid them out on the bed to see what I had accumulated. There were some strange, judgmental poems about middle age, and I noticed some centers and intervals mentioned in some much older poems. I gave myself an assignment for the rest of the residency: write about middles.

This idea was arbitrary. It felt dumb and simple, but I wanted to try this exercise. I’m the person who never stretches before or after exercise, and exercise has never felt habitual to me. To hold myself to it, I told my fellow residents. I remain ever grateful that Annia Ciezadlo, Kathy Fish, Rebecca Entel, Oliver Caplan, Kenny Nguyen, Richard Pasquarelli, Danny Thanh Nguyen, Alison Welford, Laurie Kahn, and Gina Frangello said, do it. Had it not been for for this bunch of artists, I probably would have talked myself out of it and remained stuck. Each of these individuals is amazing, and if you’ve read this far into the post, I hope you click on some of their names to see what they’re doing. At the end of February, we left and, within days, were isolating in our pandemic homes.

If in Some Cataclysm is a book entirely of middles. In medias res, the Middle Ages and middle age, the middle bones of your fingers and the middle ear, the meantime, the mid-decade. These poems are also critiques, angers, frustrations—there is so much wrong with the human world! We need to admit these wrongs, call them out, sit with them, even or especially when we have contributed to or continue to perpetuate them. And yet, these poems ask us not to give up on ourselves or each other.

If in Some Cataclysm If in Some Cataclysm is a universe in which “so much desired of each other and not enough of ourselves” is the norm. Anna Leahy’s poems remind us that “to be born is to be defined by what one is not and what one is also not,” echoing Simone de Beauvoir’s “One is not born, but rather be...

Next Thursday! Scan QR code to get zoom link. Five poets. Five new poetry books. Time to celebrate!

REGISTRATION FOR ZOOM LINK: https://bit.ly/TabulaPoeticaEvent

Join Tab Journal and Chapman U's MFA in Creative Writing program on Tuesday, April 9, for the Literary Pub(lishing) Crawl. Featuring writers Rachelle Cruz and Stacy Russo.

Literary Pub(lishing) Crawl The Department of English and Leatherby Libraries is happy to present the Literary Pub(lishing) Crawl for 2024. Join us in Argyos Forum 209BC and third floor south patio. Thank you! Event Schedule: 4:00pm Academic Applications & Your Professional Identity with Latinx and Latin American Studies P...

RIP Marjorie Perloff, who trusted Tab Journal with an essay for our second issue more than a decade ago.

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New issue for March/April!

One component cannot operate without the other. Pairing risks the mismatch, invites the unintended connection, and suggests what is left out by quantitive limits. The goal for this issue is partnership, conversation, and celebration of the depth and complications of useful pairings.

Featuring Yan An translated by Chen Du and Xisheng Chen, Denise Duhamel, Reuben Kelley Newman, Can Kitchen, Jerry Lieblich, Raymond Luczak, Santa Marchettie, Andrew Mauzey, Kimberly Ann Priest, Susan Rich, and T. W. Sia.

Current Issue - Tab Journal The annual, distinctive print issue of Tab: The Journal of Poetry & Poetics engages the reader with poetry as a material object and asks the reader to negotiate between image and text. The design does not assume a traditional role of unobtrusively framing content; instead, design actively shapes the...

Tab Journal is open for submissions! Send us your original poems--or translated poems, an essay about poetry or poetics, an interview with a poet. We're open to possibilities.

Submit - Tab Journal TAB: The Journal of Poetry & Poetics welcomes submissions of poems and other writing about or related to poetry. Send original poems in English, English translations of poems in other languages, scholarly or creative essays about poetry, interviews, visual poems, or art-poetry hybrids. We’re open ...

Read Tab Journal in print or online. Jan/Feb features work by Paul Brooke, Yan A trans. by Chen Du & Xisheng Chen, Julia Kolchinsky Dasbach, Xander Gershberg, Anton Lushankin, Katie Manning, Adesiyan Oluwapelumi, and T.W. Sia.

Current Issue - Tab Journal The annual, distinctive print issue of Tab: The Journal of Poetry & Poetics engages the reader with poetry as a material object and asks the reader to negotiate between image and text. The design does not assume a traditional role of unobtrusively framing content; instead, design actively shapes the...

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The judge for the 2024 Donald Hall Prize for Poetry is Kimiko Hahn, recipient of the Ruth Lilly Prize for Lifetime Achievement! Winners receive $5,500 and publication by the University of Pittsburgh Press. Submit your poetry collections by February 28! https://awp.submittable.com/submit

Tab Journal announces the Jan/Feb print issue, available in hard copy and also an online adaptation that includes audio.

https://tabjournal.org/current-issue

Engaging the World: HEALTH EQUITY

NEW ISSUE of TAB JOURNAL | Sept/Oct

PLUS, Suzanne Edison will visit for a Poetry Talk and Poetry Reading on November 7.

ETW: Leading the Conversation on Health Equity Wilkinson College is committed to leading the conversation in our community on issues of humanity, unity and justice. As such, the college has undertaken, semester-long examinations of key societal issues. These interdisciplinary, campus-wide conversations promote thoughtful dialogue; mindful reflec...