Peripheries is a non-profit literary and arts journal established in 2017 that publishes artistic work that is, broadly understood, ‘peripheral’; work that explores the interstices between discourses, traditions, languages, forms, and genres.
Peripheries is currently accepting submissions for its sixth issue. The deadline for submissions is March 1, 2023. Read the submission guidelines.
In this spirit, along with publishing poetry, visual art, and short stories, our scope is expansive, including translations, interviews, creative nonfiction, reviews, aphorisms, recipes, instructions, and manifestos. We encourage formal experimentation that is in a mutually-informing, organic relation to the artist’s topic or question, which might also explore the peripheral: the marginal, the incidental, the boundary-experience, the tangential, the borderline, and particularly those metaxical spaces (that both attract and repel) between artistry, philosophical speculation, mystical experience, and religious traditions. We are excited to expand these discussions in whatever way is meaningful to you and bring your myriad interpretations into dialogue on our pages.
Peripheries is proud to publish emerging writers, alongside established luminaries. We invite new artists to submit their work, including people under-represented in traditional literary circles.
Peripheries is published annually by Harvard Divinity School’s Center for the Study of World Religions under the supervision of its director Charles M. Stang. Hard copies are printed and distributed free-of-charge to the Harvard community. If you would like to acquire a copy, please contact us.
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The latest issue of Peripheries may be found on the journal's website. Print copies of Peripheries are sold at the Grolier Poetry Book Shop.
Additionally, selected pieces of Peripheries Vol. 4 are linked below as PDFs.
The Periphery, by Zhang Zao, translated by Eleanor Goodman and Wang Ao
Susan Howe, by Amy Hollywood
Purgatorio, by Peter Sacks
The Reins, by Peter Sacks
Reflections, by Farah Kashem
Pigs at the Door and a Riot Beneath the Skin, by Brionne Janae (Eleanor Bumpurs to Deborah Danner)
Umbra, by Jackie Wang
Participles of Deserere, by Ariana Reines
A Memory, by Harry Hall
Acknowledgements, Notes, and Contributors
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The current masthead for Peripheries is as follows:
Editor-in-Chief: Sherah Bloor
Managing Editor: Harry Hall
Designer: Jake Deluca
Senior Editors: Eden Werring, Joel Werring
Poetry Editors: Sam Bailey, Alex Braslavsky, Emma De Lisle, Sarah Ehrich, Edith Enright, Josh Gregory, Amanda Gunn, Tawanda Mulalu, Byron Russell, Ethan Seeley, Walter Smelt III, Martine Thomas, Becca Voelcker, Jessica Yuan
Prose Editors: Mafaz al-Suwaidan, Scott Aumont, Haruka Umetsu Cho, Rebecca Doverspike, Peter Dziedzic, Edwin Alanis García, Harry Hall, Justin Janesko, Kim Mereine, Leah Muddle, Maria Pinto
Visual Art Editors: Olivia De Lisle, Joey Hou (aka Delilah Lyses-sApo), Becca Voelcker, Maria Matulewicz
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Past issues can be accessed below as PDFs:
Issue 2:
Issue 1: