Kitchen Table Quarterly
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Samizdat. Poetry. Nonfiction. Art.
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It’s back 😏
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Let’s love on some editors, folks. They freakin’ deserve it!
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Let’s love on some editors, folks. They freakin’ deserve it!
November 17, 2025 at 2:47 PM
It’s back 😏
Nominate Your Favorite Lit Mags of 2025 through this form ⬇️
www.chillsubs.com/best-lit-mag...
Let’s love on some editors, folks. They freakin’ deserve it!
Nominate Your Favorite Lit Mags of 2025 through this form ⬇️
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Let’s love on some editors, folks. They freakin’ deserve it!
We are delighted to be able to showcase all of these incredible Pushcart Nominees. If you haven't read these pieces yet, you can find them in our archive. Do it!
November 28, 2025 at 6:43 PM
We are delighted to be able to showcase all of these incredible Pushcart Nominees. If you haven't read these pieces yet, you can find them in our archive. Do it!
It's that time again! We love Chill Subs, so go tell Chill Subs how much you love us! (www.chillsubs.com/best-lit-mag...)
November 17, 2025 at 6:49 PM
It's that time again! We love Chill Subs, so go tell Chill Subs how much you love us! (www.chillsubs.com/best-lit-mag...)
Subs are open and our Autumn issue is here!
October 8, 2025 at 10:41 PM
Subs are open and our Autumn issue is here!
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Today's Featured Poem:
"Frances Glessner Lee as the First True Crime Girlie: An Abecedarian" by Michaela Mayer published in @kitchentableqtrly.bsky.social
Read here:
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"Frances Glessner Lee as the First True Crime Girlie: An Abecedarian" by Michaela Mayer published in @kitchentableqtrly.bsky.social
Read here:
poems.com/poem/frances...
Frances Glessner Lee as the First True Crime Girlie: An Abecedarian
lessons in methodology, how to pluck each detailed
monument to her private suffering from its
noxious and stifling stem.
poems.com
September 27, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Today's Featured Poem:
"Frances Glessner Lee as the First True Crime Girlie: An Abecedarian" by Michaela Mayer published in @kitchentableqtrly.bsky.social
Read here:
poems.com/poem/frances...
"Frances Glessner Lee as the First True Crime Girlie: An Abecedarian" by Michaela Mayer published in @kitchentableqtrly.bsky.social
Read here:
poems.com/poem/frances...
Best of the Net Noms are here! Go read them if you haven't already. Or maybe read them again!
September 17, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Best of the Net Noms are here! Go read them if you haven't already. Or maybe read them again!
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These books know how to treat place as a character known and loved across time. (@riggstah.bsky.net)
These books know how to treat place as a character known and loved across time. (@riggstah.bsky.net)
7 Debut Collections About Knowing a Place Across Generations - Electric Literature
These authors capture the power and privilege of staying
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August 25, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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These books know how to treat place as a character known and loved across time. (@riggstah.bsky.net)
These books know how to treat place as a character known and loved across time. (@riggstah.bsky.net)
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“Many of us feel paralyzed by despair, waking to images of emaciated Palestinian children on our phone screens each morning, but there are still things we can do to help.”
Israel is starving Gaza. Here’s how you can help keep people alive.
“People in Gaza are neither dead nor alive, they are walking corpses.” These are the words of Philippe Lazzarini, the Commissioner-General of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency,…
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July 27, 2025 at 5:00 PM
“Many of us feel paralyzed by despair, waking to images of emaciated Palestinian children on our phone screens each morning, but there are still things we can do to help.”
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"We asked librarians and staff at Brooklyn Public Library to write stories about their connections to these books, and describe why they think we should all be reading them now."
Librarians Recommend 8 Books that Changed the Shape of Politics and Reading in America - Electric Literature
According to the Brooklyn Public Library, these titles can help you understand how we got here
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July 25, 2025 at 8:01 PM
"We asked librarians and staff at Brooklyn Public Library to write stories about their connections to these books, and describe why they think we should all be reading them now."
Looking at the sky where we are, you'd never know it's late July. Oh well, let's read.
July 22, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Looking at the sky where we are, you'd never know it's late July. Oh well, let's read.
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A 2024 study found that 58 per cent of English majors at two Midwestern universities had so much trouble interpreting the opening paragraphs of “Bleak House” by Charles Dickens that “they would not be able to read the novel on their own.”
What Happens After A.I. Destroys College Writing?
The demise of the English paper will end a long intellectual tradition, but it’s also an opportunity to reëxamine the purpose of higher education.
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July 18, 2025 at 5:31 PM
A 2024 study found that 58 per cent of English majors at two Midwestern universities had so much trouble interpreting the opening paragraphs of “Bleak House” by Charles Dickens that “they would not be able to read the novel on their own.”
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If YOU were in charge of the English language for a day, what is one thing you would absolutely change?
July 14, 2025 at 6:26 PM
If YOU were in charge of the English language for a day, what is one thing you would absolutely change?
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Is this a brilliant week or a bullshit one?
July 9, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Is this a brilliant week or a bullshit one?
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"Look—the Capitol! Let's pay it a visit!"
Superman puts the scare into a lobbyist who's paid off a senator for his vote, Action Comics #1, 1938.
Superman puts the scare into a lobbyist who's paid off a senator for his vote, Action Comics #1, 1938.
July 8, 2025 at 2:38 AM
"Look—the Capitol! Let's pay it a visit!"
Superman puts the scare into a lobbyist who's paid off a senator for his vote, Action Comics #1, 1938.
Superman puts the scare into a lobbyist who's paid off a senator for his vote, Action Comics #1, 1938.
This issue's been out for a couple of days, but we're not even gonna lie, y'all, this post is a bit late because of well, everything. So our only question is: how are you caring for yourself?
Any kind of joy you find, take it, friend. If that's reading some KTQ? Hey, we love that, and we love you!
Any kind of joy you find, take it, friend. If that's reading some KTQ? Hey, we love that, and we love you!
July 3, 2025 at 8:08 PM
This issue's been out for a couple of days, but we're not even gonna lie, y'all, this post is a bit late because of well, everything. So our only question is: how are you caring for yourself?
Any kind of joy you find, take it, friend. If that's reading some KTQ? Hey, we love that, and we love you!
Any kind of joy you find, take it, friend. If that's reading some KTQ? Hey, we love that, and we love you!
Do you love poetry or is nonfic more your jam? Do you have eclectic taste? Are you into history-- the weird, secret, but most importantly, true kind? Come read with us!
June 25, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Do you love poetry or is nonfic more your jam? Do you have eclectic taste? Are you into history-- the weird, secret, but most importantly, true kind? Come read with us!
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Will reading become obsolete? How A.I. could transform our relationship to the written word.
What’s Happening to Reading?
For many people, A.I. may be bringing the age of traditional text to an end.
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June 25, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Will reading become obsolete? How A.I. could transform our relationship to the written word.
Here to remind you to care for yourself. Walk through flowers. Have an iced coffee. Read a poem. Breathe.
(Featured image: "The Shepherd Woman." Ehsan Amed Mehedi. Kitchen Table Quarterly xxv.iii, Spring 2025.)
(Featured image: "The Shepherd Woman." Ehsan Amed Mehedi. Kitchen Table Quarterly xxv.iii, Spring 2025.)
June 24, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Here to remind you to care for yourself. Walk through flowers. Have an iced coffee. Read a poem. Breathe.
(Featured image: "The Shepherd Woman." Ehsan Amed Mehedi. Kitchen Table Quarterly xxv.iii, Spring 2025.)
(Featured image: "The Shepherd Woman." Ehsan Amed Mehedi. Kitchen Table Quarterly xxv.iii, Spring 2025.)
More daylight hours just means more time to read our Spring issue, right? Is that how that works? No? Oh well, read it anyway!
May 19, 2025 at 6:25 PM
More daylight hours just means more time to read our Spring issue, right? Is that how that works? No? Oh well, read it anyway!
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This is going to be a blow to some litmags.
May 6, 2025 at 1:50 AM
This is going to be a blow to some litmags.
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The lit world is having another one of its extinction level events with the loss of funding for so many lit mags and orgs but that's exactly why it's the right time to become a writer! Start screaming with us!
May 5, 2025 at 4:12 PM
The lit world is having another one of its extinction level events with the loss of funding for so many lit mags and orgs but that's exactly why it's the right time to become a writer! Start screaming with us!
It's here! It's here!
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April 10, 2025 at 4:06 PM
It's here! It's here!
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Five days until our new issue drops AND five days until submissions close. There's all kinds of stuff going on over here!
April 4, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Five days until our new issue drops AND five days until submissions close. There's all kinds of stuff going on over here!