Witness Magazine

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Poetry•Vol. 34 No. 2

by Nancy Chen Long

-inspired by @wrecked.archive by Patty Paine

 

 

Nancy Chen LongNancy Chen Long is the author of Wider than the Sky (Diode Editions, 2020), which was selected for the Diode Editions Book Award, and Light into Bodies (University of Tampa Press, 2017), which won the Tampa Review Prize for Poetry. Her work has been supported by a National Endowment of the Arts Creative Writing Fellowship and the Poetry Society of America Robert H. Winner Award. You’ll find her recent poems in Ploughshares, Copper Nickel, The Cincinnati Review, The Southern Review, and other publications. She works at Indiana University in the Research Technologies division.

Website: nancychenlong.com
Twitter: @NancyChenLong
Instagram: @nancy.chen.long

 

 

 

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 publishes one print issue and one online issue a year, and increasingly seeks out work that contextualizes the American experience by highlighting issues of global concern.