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 11, Issue 2 (2012)
Fiction
You Are a Giant, You Think
Michael Baccam
The Misfortune That Summer
Matthew Baker
You Don't Even Deserve Gum
Julian Darragjati
The Strongest Thing in the World
Christian Michener
Pause Between Acts
Carolyn Watson
Poetry
The Relative Weight
Albert Abonado
Letter to the Hailstones Striking on the Roof
Sandy Anderson
Three Dancing Girls
Nin Andrews
The Real Story of Spiderman
Nin Andrews
Mother--First Room
A. M. Brant
The Morning after Our Last Trip
Taylor Collier
Five Tattoos
Jaclyn Dwyer
Return to Nam
Jaclyn Dwyer
65 Pounds of Honeycomb
Beth Edwards
After Work
Brian Fanelli
Love Poem with Calloused Hands
Anthony Frame
Food from Paradise
Judy Halebsky
Standing Room Only
Jermaine Harmon
Toward the Eastern Seaboard
Adam Houle
The Funeral
Victoria Kelly
A Day in the Life
David Lehman
Criticism is Death
David Lehman
Thunder in Umbria
David Lehman
Missoula in the Moonlight
Kevin McCoy
A Note from the Editor--Please Do Not Send Us Any Poems with Excessive Use fo the Word "I"
Kevin McCoy
Earth Like and Open Mouth
Jesse Minkert
Audio Cassette Bought from Goodwill Marked "Kelly"
Glenn Shaheen
Joe Adamczyk
Mitch Sisskind
Watching the Village
Ephraim Scott Summers
Godot's Underpants
Seth Tucker
God Doesn't Go by that NAme
Marty Walsh
Praying at the Hour of the Ox
Robert Wood
Creative Nonfiction
Minor Things
Eli Connaughton
Five Fears--A Refrain
Peter Stenson
Full Issue
Harpur Palate, Volume 11 Number 2, Winter & Spring
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Editors
- Editors
- Virginia Shank
- Marissa Shwalm
- Associate Editor
- Jennie Case
- Fiction Editor
- Sara Erdmann
- Nonfiction Editor
- Augusto Facchini
- Poetry Editor
- Nicole Santalucia
- Poetry Board
- Dante Di Stefano
- Sasha Hoffman
- Molly Kat
- Kate Sweeney
- Prose Board
- Jonathan Chuang
- Trisha Cowen
- Robert Miegl
- Joseph Montalbo
- Robert P Wilson
- Faculty Advisor
- Maria Mazziotti Gillan
- Founding Editor
- Toiya Kristen Finley
- Cover Art
- Jennifer Campbell-Smith
- Initial Art Direction
- Benjamin Critton
- Zak Jensen
- Interns
- Claire Easton
- D. Alex Mosner
- Corey Pentoney
- Elizabeth Reyn
Copyright Information
Copyright 2012. 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, electonic, mechanical, recorded or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the English Department, Binghamton University. Members of CMLP, CELJ, Broome County Arts Council, Gorgeous Washington Street Association. Indexed by Humanities Internation Complete, Duotrope, The Writer's Chronicle, New Pages, and Poem Finder. Typeset in Harpur Palate Franklin Gothic, ITC Clearface, and Monotype Palatin. Printed by Montrose Publishing, Montrose, PA.