About the magazine
Literary Matters is the online literary magazine of the Association of Literary Scholars, Critics, and Writers (ALSCW).
We publish three issues per year, containing original works of scholarship and criticism, poetry, fiction, literary translation, and memoir. Recent issues have featured work from U.S. Poets Laureate and winners of the Nobel Prize, the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Bollingen Prize, and many other prestigious awards.
From the archive
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Lost Cockatiel
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The Reason
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Home Movies
What we’re watching
- [iframe title=”YouTube video player” allow=”accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture” allowfullscreen=”” src=”https://www.youtube.com/embed/PK4CB-zcpDg” width=”560″ height=”315″ frameborder=”0″][/iframe] ALSCW Zoom Series: American Classics, American Crisis (recording)
- [iframe width=”560″ height=”315″ src=”https://www.youtube.com/embed/J8EA2tLJCfA” title=”YouTube video player” frameborder=”0″ allow=”accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture” allowfullscreen=””][/iframe] Past President John Briggs interviewed on Leisurely Conversations with Rob Jackson
- [iframe width=”560″ height=”315″ src=”https://www.youtube.com/embed/dPLt-J2DcAk” title=”YouTube video player” frameborder=”0″ allow=”accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture” allowfullscreen=””][/iframe] Bob Dylan and the Nobel Prize: a Keynote Address by Christopher Ricks
News
Straight Labyrinth: János Pilinszky in the Poetry, Music, and Thought of Three Hungarian Artists is now available
Straight Labyrinth János Pilinszky in the Poetry, Music, and Thought of Three Hungarian Artists March 20, 2022 at 3 p.m. EDT a Zoom event hosted ...
Carmen Bugan Added to List of Essential Books
ALSCW member Carmen Bugan's Poetry and the language of Oppression has been listed by Poets and Writers in their list of "essential books for creative writers" as ...
Former ALSCW President Greg Delanty Awarded Inaugural David Ferry and Ellen LaForge Poetry Prize
Poet Greg Delanty has been named the first recipient of the David Ferry and Ellen LaForge Poetry Prize. The prize was established at Suffolk University ...
