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We're giving away a veritable boatload of literary magazines. Check it out! 

Hey everyone! This morning we launched a new project called Literistic. Literistic is a service that keeps you up to date with submission deadlines for literary publications, contests and fellowships. You can read a little bit more about on it on our homepage. Alternatively, you can check out "Murder your Spreadsheets" or "Building Literistic: Humans, Robots & Juvenile Capitalists."  You can also follow the project on Twitter: @Literistic. Right now, we have virtually no followers. We think you're going to like it!

This was but a ruse to distract you from the grouse itself, as it flaps, an obese moth, further off in the underbrush. Notice instead the subtle blendings of bar and shade, everything ish, everything soft, the apotheosis of feather. But as your heart can appreciate, its terror is a sumo wrestler.

From childhood he dreamed of being able to keep with him all the objects in the world lined up on his shelves and bookcases. He denied lack, oblivion or even the likelihood of a missing piece. Order streamed from Noah in blue tri- angles and as the pure fury of his classifications rose around him, engulfing his life they came to be called waves by others, who drowned, a world of them.

from Ian Williams, "Schumann's Arabesque, Op. 18"

from Robert Kroetsch, "for a poet who has stopped writing"

from Claudia Rankine, Don't Let Me Be Lonely

as if I had never walked except with you, my heart,  as if I could not walk except with you, as if I could not sing except when you sing.

Thomas Traherne

My purpose here is to advance into The sense of the weather, the lesson of The weather

Philip Larkin

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Paul Celan

Wisława Szymborska

It is easy to be beautiful; it is difficult to appear so. I admire you, beloved, for the trap you've set. It's like a final chapter no one reads because the plot is over. 

Kenneth Koch, "Aesthetics of Feeling Fine"