VQR Online

Taking a haircut, misery memoirs, Fitzwilliam Darcy on Facebook and National Buy a Book by a Black Author and Give it to Somebody Not Black Month.

Scans of his original submissions to VQR, including “The Gift Outright,” “Acquainted with the Night,” and nine more.

Combating the myth of urban loneliness.

Literary magazines ranked by their Pushcart Prizes winnings.

Here’s one for you: “Karl Rove.”

It’s our Fall cover, which features a photograph by Ashley Gilbertson.

The land was ours before we were the land’s.
She was our land more than a hundred years
Before we were her people. She was ours

She is as in a field a silken tent
At midday when a sunny summer breeze
Has dried the dew and all its ropes relent

One misty evening, one another’s guide,
We two were groping down a Malvern side
The last wet fields and dripping hedges home.

Back out of all this now too much for us,
Back in a time made simple by the loss
Of detail, burned, dissolved, and broken off