Transom is published each spring and fall. A transom is the bar of wood that separates a door from the window above it. What comes over the transom is lobbed, has grace, arcs in.
The Editors
Kiki
Petrosino is the
author
of Fort
Red Border (Sarabande, 2009). She holds graduate degrees
from the University of Chicago and the Iowa Writers' Workshop.
Her poems have appeared in FENCE,
Gulf Coast,
Harvard Review,
Iowa Review,
and elsewhere. A
limited-edition chapbook, The
Dark
is Here, was published in 2011 by Forklift, Ink. Her next
book will be published by Sarabande in 2013. Petrosino lives
and teaches in Louisville.
Dan
Rosenberg is the author of The Crushing Organ
(Dream Horse
Press, 2012), which won the 2011 American
Poetry Journal Book Prize, and a chapbook, A Thread
of Hands (Tilt Press, 2010). His poems, translations, and
reviews have
appeared in Pleiades,
Conduit, American Letters &
Commentary, Mantis,
Kenyon Review Online, and elsewhere. A
graduate of the Iowa
Writers' Workshop, he is a PhD student at The University of
Georgia.News
Transom is co-hosting an AWP off-site reading.
Rescue Press, Canarium Books, Factory Hollow Press, and Transom invite you to an offsite reading on Friday night, March 2nd, starting at 7:00pm. It’ll be a big old party with poetry, fiction, a film, a dream, and an open bar.
The address is: 656 West Randolph, #5E.
Dream: Kevin Gonzalez (Rescue)
Poetry: Darcie Dennigan (Canarium)
Poetry: Marc Rahe (Rescue)
Poetry: Ata Moharreri (Factory Hollow)
Poetry: Kaethe Schwehn (Transom)
Fiction: Madeline McDonnell (Rescue)
Poetry: M.A. Vizsolyi (Transom)
Poetry: Anthony Madrid (Canarium)
Poetry: Alex Phillips (Factory Hollow)
Short Film: Nick Twemlow (Canarium)
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We are thrilled to announce our 2012 Pushcart nominees:
Nico Alvarado's "After Lu Yu"
Dina Hardy's "English Sparrow pg. 2360 Engraving"
Kristin Hatch's "the need for aged buildings"
Alec Hershman's "There Is No Lake"
Avram Kline's "Brattleboro"
Gregory Lawless's "White Bowl Filled with Water"
Congratulations and good luck to all of our nominees!