January 14, 2018
Good news! Contributor Owen McLeod's first book of poems, Dream Kitchen, has just won the Vassar Miller Prize in Poetry, judged by Rosanna Warren! The book will be published by the University of North Texas Press in 2019. McLeod's poems "A Brief Synopsis of Spinoza's *Ethics*" and "A Thursday In and Above the World" appeared in Pleiades 37.2, 2017. Congratulations, ...
January 08, 2018
Matthew Minicucci Gattaca The truth is, I don’t even recognize myself. All I’ve ever wanted to do is leave. Did you know space is like an ocean? Weightless. Waves of light like steam or kelp caught in your arms; stroke to stroke to patient stroke. And nothing. How much I’ve wanted all that nothing. Where I’m going, we don’t need space suits. I’ve got these ...
January 03, 2018
Now more than ever, in this day and age, in this political climate, we would never have thought we'd be so proud to announce: new issues abound! But they do! Abound! Pick up our latest, hot off the presses. Issue 38.1 of Pleiades features: Folio: Contemporary French Fiction: Jeanne Benameur, Francois Bon, Yanick Lahens, Delphine Coulin Folio: Contemporary Eastern European Poetry: Inga Gaile, Stella Vinitchi ...
January 01, 2018
Paige Lewis DIORAMA OF OUR NEED TO ESCAPE THE COLD WE MAKE X steadies my balance on the outer wall of the zoo. He says that even in their sleep, captive giraffes know they're captive—they don't make that midnight hum in the wild. He wants to connect these stemmy-necked leopards to my crooning, but it's only noon. X reaches up, pokes his finger through the sun, and spirals it ...