# Peripheries ## expand\_more ![Artistic rendition, words on a page](/sites/g/files/omnuum4346/files/hds_cswr/files/banner_wolowiec-01.jpg) [*Peripheries*](https://www.peripheriesjournal.com/) 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. 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 the [Center for the Study of World Religions](/home) under the supervision of its director Charles M. Stang. --- ***Peripheries, Issue 7*** ![Book cover with colorful pencil marks, muted yellow background, peripheries, no 7](/sites/g/files/omnuum4346/files/styles/hwp_1_1__360x360_scale/public/2025-06/Peripheries7Cover.jpg?itok=II8HBKMz) [Order your copy of *Peripheries* Volume 7](https://www.hup.harvard.edu/books/9780674299979). --- ***Peripheries,*** ***Issue*** **6** ![Peripheries 6 issue](/sites/g/files/omnuum4346/files/styles/hwp_1_1__360x360_scale/public/2025-01/Peripheries%206.jpg?itok=nkotBJ95) Available at [Grolier Poetry Bookshop](https://bookshop.org/p/books/peripheries-a-journal-of-word-image-and-sound-no-6-sherah-bloor/20543439?ean=9780674296299) and [Harvard University Press](https://www.hup.harvard.edu/books/9780674296299) *Digital issue available via* [*HUP website*](https://www.hup.harvard.edu/books/9780674296312) --- ♦♦♦ Past issues can be accessed below as PDFs: ***Peripheries,*** [*Issue 5:*](https://drive.google.com/file/d/1-67bQhEoNFAq3bRb1xIGmKL5EwNxbcmD/view?usp=sharing) ![Peripheries Volume 5](/sites/g/files/omnuum4346/files/styles/hwp_1_1__720x720_scale/public/hds_cswr/files/peripheriesvol5_blue_front_cover_small.png?itok=n-E7a-ra) ***Peripheries,*** [*Issue 4:*](https://aca9ad5c-c9fe-413b-b78b-2655ccf25329.filesusr.com/ugd/b277e5_901f9f75352f404d83b5de4b1b06365e.pdf) ![peripheries 4](/sites/g/files/omnuum4346/files/styles/hwp_1_1__360x360_scale/public/hds_cswr/files/peripheries_no._4.png?itok=48QfIkfi) ***Peripheries,*** [*Issue 3:*](https://aca9ad5c-c9fe-413b-b78b-2655ccf25329.filesusr.com/ugd/b277e5_ee62d2541bfc46288e254defedfdf277.pdf) ![peripheries 3](/sites/g/files/omnuum4346/files/styles/hwp_1_1__360x360_scale/public/hds_cswr/files/peripheries_no.3.png?itok=cwhjwRJU) ***Peripheries,** Issue 2:* ![periphery 2](/sites/g/files/omnuum4346/files/styles/hwp_1_1__360x360_scale/public/hds_cswr/files/peripheries_no._2.png?itok=OqB0xOt6) ***Peripheries,** Issue 1:* ![Periphery 1](/sites/g/files/omnuum4346/files/styles/hwp_1_1__360x360_scale/public/hds_cswr/files/peripheries_no.1.png?itok=vzPfKPLz)