Witness XXIX.1 (Spring 2016) Now Live
The Witness Spring 2016 issue (XXIX.1) is now live.
CURRENT ISSUE » XXX.2 (Summer 2017)
Scott Brennan / “144”
Part of a series called New Cathedrals, photographs taken in parking garages throughout the Miami area. As the sun began to set, the garage became suffused with a beautiful, gold-orange light, a natural Rothko-like painting that lasted for a few minutes and then was gone.
Part of a series called New Cathedrals, photographs taken in parking garages throughout the Miami area. As the sun began to set, the garage became suffused with a beautiful, gold-orange light, a natural Rothko-like painting that lasted for a few minutes and then was gone.
Poetry
Jeff Alessandrelli, Raonelstam
Leah Claire Kaminski, Visitation, Ashfield
Shireen Madon, Ipanema
Tristan Tzara, translated by Andrew S. Nicholson The Lion Tamer Remembers, Clever March Dance, White Looking Countryside
Nikki Wallschlaeger, Prayer Sonnet, Lonely In a Fundamental Way, Just Because We’re Scared Doesn’t Mean We’re Wrong
Fiction
Dani Blackman, We Must’ve Been Magnificent
Jackson Bliss, Conspiracy of Lemons
Jennifer Givhan, La Bee Goes Bar Crashing
Shelby Hinte, The Lie
Vincent Guerra, How to Console a Floating Person
Nonfiction
Garnett Kilberg Cohen, The Art of Bathing and Bathing in Art
Marissa Landrigan, Home; Akin to Haunt
Witness blends the features of a literary and an issue-oriented magazine to highlight the role of the modern writer as witness to his or her times. Launched in Detroit in 1987, the magazine is best known for showcasing work that defines its historical moment; special issues have focused on political oppression, religion, the natural world, crime, aging, civil rights, love, ethnic America, and exile. The issues “New Nature Writing,” “The Sixties,” “Sports in America,” and “The Best of Witness, 1987 – 2004” eventually appeared as university press anthologies.In 2007, Witness moved to Black Mountain Institute at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. The magazine now publishes one special print issue and two general online issues each year and increasingly seeks out work that contextualizes the American experience by highlighting issues of global concern.
