Harpur Palate: a Literary Journal
Established in 2001, Harpur Palate is a literary journal published twice yearly by students at Binghamton University. The project has long been a joint effort of graduate and undergraduate students in the English Department, and is now led by PhD students with the support of undergraduate interns--who earn college credit and learn about literary publishing at the same time.
The first issues of Harpur Palate published only fiction and poetry. The magazine currently accepts submissions for poetry, creative nonfiction, and fiction, but this open access archive will also include visual art, photo essays, and interviews from past issues. The magazine runs three annual contests with cash prizes: Creative Nonfiction (Sept 1-Nov 15), John Gardner Memorial Prize in Fiction (Feb 15-April 30), and the Milton Kessler Memorial Poetry Prize (Sept 1-Nov 15).
In its back issues, Harpur Palate has works from such notable authors as Major Jackson, Lydia Davis, Sherman Alexie, and more. Future editors of major publications have also served on the staff at Harpur Palate, such as current co-editor of North American Review J.D. Schraffenberger. Now that the magazine has made the transition to an all-online publication, the editors look forward to publishing new and innovative works on our online platform, Harpur Palate
Current Issue: Volume 6, Issue 2 (2007)
Fiction
The Troubles
Charles Haverty
The Revolving Door
T. J. Forrester
Beer Money
Valerie Fioravanti
Number Two
Vanessa Russell
Poetry
Daguerreotype Portrait of Woman and Bird
Maureen Alsop
Camouflage
Lisa Titus Caloro
How You Are Going to Save the World
Cynthia Grier Lotze
Schrödinger's Cat
Madelyn Garner
Press Release
Jeffrey Dodd
Translator's Note
Jeffrey Dodd
The Almond Tree
James Doyle
It's All Too Much
Mary Biddinger
The New Math
Mary Biddinger
Carnegie Bridge
Julie Platt
The Magician's Tale
Jilly Dybka
Love crushed us with its big death truck
Andrew Michael Roberts
I am an important person
Andrew Michael Roberts
There Was Something
Derek Pollard
What's On a Plate
Casey Lord
Lobsters in the Attic
April Lindner
Diagram of the Female Reproductive System, Translated
Kathi Morrison-Taylor
e(ye)-mail
Patrick Lawler
e(rotic)-mail
Patrick Lawler
The Goods Train Over the Tarentum Bridge
Sankar Roy
"A Slogan Will Not Suffice"
John Pursley II
[Absent as if possessed as if not quite there]
Jennifer Merrifield
Cotton Field
J. Matthew Boyleston
Creative Nonfiction
The Allergy Diaries
Jill Christman
Doing Fence
Meg Thompson
Art and Photography
The Sacred in the Mundane
Bruce Wrighton
Full Issue
Harpur Palate, Volume 6 Issue 2, Winter 2007
Harpur Palate .
Editors
- Editors
- Kathryn Henion
- J. D. Schraffenberger
- Associate Editor
- Deborah Poe
- Fiction Editors
- Maggie Gerrity
- Holly Wendt
- Poetry Editors
- Devon Branca
- Carolyn Fargnoli
- Josh Keiter
- Layout Editor
- Cannon Roberts
- Art Editor
- Lynne Schneider
- Faculty Advisor
- Maria Mazziotti Gillan
- Founding Editor
- Toiya Kristen Finley
- Interns
- Lianna Gomori
- Kelly McCrossan
- Adam Pellegrini
- Eddie Shapiro
Cover Art
Cover: Curley's Bar and Grill, Johnson City, New York circa 1985, by Bruce Wrighton. Cover Design: Kathryn Henion. Book Design: Kathryn Henion. Text set in Garamond. Printed by Montrose Publishing, Montrose, Pennsylvania.
Copyright Statement
Harpur Palate ISSN #: 1532-9046 (print); 1533-6301 (online) is published in winter and summer by the Department of English at Binghamton University, PO Box 6000, Binghamton, NY 13902. Copyright © 2007 by the Department of English, Binghamton University. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the English Department, Binghamton University. Members of CLMP, CELJ, Broome County Arts Council, Gorgeous Washington Street Association. Indexed by the American Humanities Index and Poem Finder.