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EPOCH @epochliterary.com · Sep 3

The Koch editors are named after Michael Koch, our longest-serving editor, who died in 2022.

Remembering Our Editor Michael Koch, 1947-2022 — EPOCH

Michael Claude Koch, an editor and lecturer at Cornell University noted for having returned the Cornell literary journal, EPOCH, to national prominence, died at home on May 27, 2022, after a brief ill...

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EPOCH @epochliterary.com · Sep 3

Our 2025-26 Koch Memorial Editors are Emma Catherine Perry (poetry) and Daniel Peña (fiction). Click through to read about them!

The 2025-26 Koch Memorial Editors: Emma Catherine Perry and Daniel Peña — EPOCH

Read about the 2025-26 Koch Memorial Editors, Emma Catherine Perry and Daniel Peña.

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EPOCH @epochliterary.com · Sep 2

Proud to include @theonion.com alongside other distinguished literary publications in our office

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EPOCH @epochliterary.com · Sep 1

Here's a review of Patrick Nathan's novel THE FUTURE WAS COLOR, out now in paperback from Counterpoint Press, by assistant editor Miklos Mattyasovszky. "[A] tender triumph of a novel, which had wrapped me in its anxious arms from the very first line."

Create, Flee, Forget: a Review of The Future Was Color by Patrick Nathan — EPOCH

What gets forgotten, why, and who gets to decide are some of Nathan’s central concerns. His vivid prose imbues these questions with multiple strains of pain: the pain of losing parents and lovers, the...

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EPOCH @epochliterary.com · Aug 25

It is a new semester and we have acquired this beautiful vault boy mug for our lego bouquet

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EPOCH @epochliterary.com · Aug 25

That empty black splash image represents the unknowable void to which we are all doomed, and which is the great mystery at the heart of all artistic endeavor, ofc

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EPOCH @epochliterary.com · Aug 25

Also, electronic subs are open for one more week!

EPOCH Magazine Submission Manager

We are open for electronic submissions only during the months of August and January. Each submission costs $3, and a portion of each fee, after processing costs, is donated to the Cornell Prison Educa...

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EPOCH @epochliterary.com · Aug 25

We've got a new interview today from outgoing poetry editor Michael Prior, who talks with poet Michael Nienow about his new collection, IF NOTHING, from @alicejamesbooks.bsky.social. "As the past cannot be changed, I find the resistance of neat endings hopeful."

With No Story to Save Me from Myself: A Conversation with Matthew Nienow — EPOCH

“Though there is a place for poetry-writing-as-personal-therapy, it has always been important to me to make work that rises beyond my own small life toward something universal, regardless of whether t...

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EPOCH @epochliterary.com · Aug 22

COWBOY PARK, the new poetry collection from our contributor Eduardo Martínez-Leyva, just went into a second printing...check it out!

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Betsy Mitchell Martinez @betsymitchellmtz.bsky.social · Aug 6

I recently had an MRI during a week when my preschooler was listening to La Bamba on repeat. I'm so grateful to have a poem about that experience in the current issue of @epochliterary.com!

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Pegah Ouji @pegahouji.bsky.social · Aug 18

Received my contributor copy of @epochliterary.com latest issue with my story called Untouchables. Thanks to @jrobertlennon.com and other staff!

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EPOCH @epochliterary.com · Aug 4

We've got a new blog piece from our correspondent KP Vogel, who attended a conference of Fernando Pessoa Scholars last year. "If Pessoa’s author was God, that author might merely be the creation of yet another Author, farther removed, and so on. Pessoas all the way up, so to speak."

One Author’s Unusual Path to Immortality — EPOCH

Having become fascinated by Pessoa three years before, I was now living, by happenstance, a few blocks from his house, walking at odd hours through the same streets that Pessoa himself must have trave...

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EPOCH @epochliterary.com · Aug 4

People are asking about the free weekend. There is indeed one this month, just keep checking back every Saturday!

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Greg Sendi @gregsendi.bsky.social · Aug 4

Thanks to editor @jrobertlennon.com and @epochliterary.com for including my odd little piece "Nineteen Footnotes on a Poem About My Marriage" as a featured essay in the Fall 2025 issue. I'm grateful to be part of such an impressive collection. You can find it at www.epochliterary.com/featuredessay

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Christina Daub @christinadaub.bsky.social · Jul 30

“Anything can be born.”

Martha Zweig #poetry

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Poem by Martha Zweig: The Particulars.
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Read another here: https://oneartpoetry.com/2024/09/22/finesse-by-martha-zweig/amp/

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EPOCH @epochliterary.com · Aug 2

We are open for subs!

EPOCH @epochliterary.com · Jul 25

Volume 72, Issue 2 is out now! 192pp. Cover art is Transit, Acrylic gouache paint on paper, by David Pjecha. Stop by the shop for a print ($10) or PDF ($7) copy. Complete contributor list in the image alt. Subs for 73.1 open in a week! www.epochliterary.com/archive

Greg Ames, Aldo Amparan, Kristof Anetta, Brittany Atkinson, Remy Barnes, Danny Cassidy, Ariel Courage, Laine Derr, Renesha Dhanraj, Taylor Franson-Thiel, Elisa Gabbert, Lily Jarman-Reisch, Christopher Kennedy, Erin Malone, Cary Marcous, Michael Martin, Betsy Mitchell Martinez, Pegah Ouji, Weijia Pan, Micah Perks, David Pjecha, Bryan Price, Stephen Thomas Roberts, Bee Sacks, Gabriel Schicchi, Greg Sendi, Brandon Shimoda, Murzban F. Shroff, Ed Skoog, Lisa Russ Spaar, FM Stringer, Justin Taylor, Emma Cairns Watson, Korey Williams.

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EPOCH @epochliterary.com · Jul 25

Volume 72, Issue 2 is out now! 192pp. Cover art is Transit, Acrylic gouache paint on paper, by David Pjecha. Stop by the shop for a print ($10) or PDF ($7) copy. Complete contributor list in the image alt. Subs for 73.1 open in a week! www.epochliterary.com/archive

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Joshua Hebburn @joshuahebburn.bsky.social · Jul 11

How can you not read a poem by a guy named Ed Skoog?

EPOCH @epochliterary.com · Jul 11

The website is now updated with a few selected pieces from the forthcoming issue. Subscription copies will go out in a couple of weeks, and the issue will go up for sale on the site. Also, we open for subs August 1!

EPOCH

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EPOCH @epochliterary.com · Jul 11

The website is now updated with a few selected pieces from the forthcoming issue. Subscription copies will go out in a couple of weeks, and the issue will go up for sale on the site. Also, we open for subs August 1!

EPOCH

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EPOCH @epochliterary.com · Jun 17

Coming soon

EPOCH Volume 72, Number 2. Cover painting of kids riding the subway.

FICTION
Renesha Dhanraj
Remy Barnes
Kristof Anetta
Murzban F. Shroff
Justin Taylor
Pegah Ouji
Bee Sacks
Greg Ames
Gabriel da Silva-Schicchi
Emma Cairns Watson
ESSAYS
Greg Sendi
Micah Perks
POETRY
Aldo Amparán
Brandon Shimoda
Weijia Pan
Ed Skoog
Betsy Mitchell Martinez
Christopher Kennedy
Bryan D. Price
Danny Cassidy
Elisa Gabbert
Laine Derr
Cary Marcous
Erin Malone
Lisa Russ Spaar
Stephen Thomas Roberts
Michael Martin
Korey Williams
Brittany Atkinson
Lily Jarman-Reisch
Taylor Franson-Thiel
FM Stringer
COMIC
Ariel Courage
COVER ART
David Pjecha

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EPOCH @epochliterary.com · May 9

Today on the blog, assistant editor Imogen Osborne interviews poet Tom Bailey, at the publication of his new pamphlet, PLEASE DO NOT TOUCH OR FEED THE HORSES (the title poem appeared in EPOCH 70.1). "I think there's a poetry to misnaming things and being wrong."

Interview: Tom Bailey — EPOCH

“I kind of hate reading publicly because I get so nervous. I have to read off my phone at readings because if I hold paper you can see the paper shaking too much. But I do think about sound. The sound...

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EPOCH @epochliterary.com · Mar 27

Hey #AWP25 attendees, we will be at bookfair today, table T832! Come check out the new issue, buy a tote, and meet the editors.

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EPOCH @epochliterary.com · Mar 26

Hey #AWP25 attendees, EPOCH will be at table T832 at bookfair! We've got ten dollar magazines and ten dollar totes. Come say hello, especially if you're one of our contributors...we would love to meet you.

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EPOCH @epochliterary.com · Mar 18

Today on the blog, assistant fiction editor Miklos Mattyasovszky interviews Meghan O’Gieblyn, author of GOD, HUMAN, ANIMAL, MACHINE. "Much of what I value in good writing comes down to the messiness of another mind at work."

“Immersed in Another Consciousness”: Meghan O’Gieblyn — EPOCH

“Machines—at least the language models that we have today—are constantly deluding themselves. They have no access to the world. They hallucinate all the time. This is one reason why I can’t imagine ge...

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Claire Wahmanholm @cwahmanholm.bsky.social · Mar 10

My contributor copies of @epochliterary.com have found me! Here's my poem, "Diorama" 🐊🐊

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