Versal is an English-language literary journal that publishes poetry, prose and art. It was founded in 2002 by American poet Megan M. Garr (editor) and is published by wordsinhere, a literary organization in Amsterdam, Netherlands. In 2009, Poets & Writers magazine listed Versal as One of '22 lit mags that do more for your work.'
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Versal publishes both new and established writers from around the world, including Argentina, Uruguay, Morocco, Romania, the United Kingdom, Germany, China, South Africa, the Czech Republic, the Netherlands, Croatia, Hungary, the United States, Canada, France and Australia. Its editor Megan M. Garr has, in the Versal 7 and 8 editorials, on the Versal blog and in an interview, discussed the connections between Versal and translocality. Garr was also a panelist at the 2011 Prague Microfestival of Literature at which translocality was a central theme. The text of Garr's presentation during the panel can be found on Versal's blog.
Versal is archived at the National Library of the Netherlands, ISSN is 1573-2207.
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Contributors
The journal's contributors include:
"Versal" 10
Shifa Ali
Matthew Baker
Christophe Brunski
Caetano Carvalho
Serena Chopra
Cody-Rose Clevidence
Hannah Cooke
Erin Costello
Renee Couture
Kathryn Cowles
Ruth Danon
Tamar de Kemp
Neil de la Flor
Eleanor DesPrez
Laura Eve Engel
Gerald Fleming
Roxane Gay
Luke Andrew Geddes
James Grinwis
Shannon Elizabeth Hardwick
Susan van Hengstum
Geoff J. Kim
Ish Klein
Daniel Takeshi Krause
Laurence Levy
Philip Lüschen
J. Annie MacLeod
Julia Madsen
Eric Magrane
Dora Malech
Ben Merriman
Rusty Morrison
Bill Neumire
Lisa Annelouise Rentz
Andrew Michael Roberts
Kayla Romberger
Brandon Shimoda
Candy Shue
Lee Sittler
Kristine Snodgrass
Joe Sobel
Freddy Tuppen
Siobhan Wall
Judith Westerveld
Bess Winter
Amy Wright
Jessica Young
Victor Zwiers
Versal 9
Louis Armand
Stace Budzko
Yago Cura
Heather Hartley
Stacy Kidd
Jane Lewty
Nate Liederbach
Tony Mancus
Antoinette Nausikaä
Alice Notley
Maya Sarishvili
Amy Touchette
Ken White
Versal 8
Carlos Barbarito (trans by Laura Chalar)
Chung Ho-seung (trans by Mia You)
Neil de la Flor
Michael Genovese
Kim Holleman
Norman Lock
Kuzhali Manickavel
Laura Mullen
Kerri Rosenstein
Selah Saterstrom
Maureen Seaton
Brandon Shimoda
Kristine Snodgrass
Versal 7
Agustina Bazterrica
Emily Carr
Joel Fishbane
Albane Gellé (trans by Jennifer K. Dick)
Elizabeth Gross
Desmond Kon Zhicheng-Mingdé
Mary Miller
Trey Moody
Sawako Nakayasu
Rufo Quintavalle
Peter Shippy
Nicole Walker
Jessica Young
Versal 6
Wiljan van den Akker
Marosa di Giorgio
Ben Doller
Emmanuel Moses (trans by Marilyn Hacker)
Takashi Hiraide (trans by Sawako Nakayasu)
Sándor Kányádi
David Miller
Xiao Kaiyu (trans by Alistair Noon)
Dawn Lonsinger
Jenny Arnold
Selfa Chew
Alex Piperno
Jennifer Arcuni
Sandra Jensen
Versal 5
Vesna Biga
Jeffrey Beam
Tsead Bruinja
Myronn Hardy
Theodore Worozbyt
Kelly Zen-Yie Tsia
Joseph Radke
Julie Marie Wade
Andrew Michael Roberts
Josh Hockensmith
Alissa Nutting
Billy O’Callaghan
Mary Buchinger
Versal 4
Helen Degen Cohen
Robert Glick
Tatjana Lukic
Alex Piperno
Claire Potter
Mark Terrill
Aleida Rodriguez
Versal 3
Marilyn Hacker
Naomi Shihab Nye
Russell Edson
Julie Doxsee
Barbara Jane Reyes
Joanna Klink
Sandy Florian
Versal 2
L. Ward Abel
Kate Foley
Noah Eli Gordon
Claudia Grinnell
Rob McLennan
Michael Rothenberg
Larry Sawyer
Joshua Marie Wilkinson
Sonia Zagwyn