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Chiquita’s Terrorist Ties Highlighted in VQR

By Waldo Jaquith

September 14, 2007

A demobilized paramilitary fighter, "Lorenzo," in Turbo, Colombia. A hazard of producing a quarterly with months-long lead times is that it's not easy to be timely. We have to forecast what will be relevant and informative in light of events six mon [...]

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The Business of the Book: An LWC}NYC Panel

By Kevin Morrissey

September 13, 2007

The Council of Literary Magazines and Presses (CLMP), in conjunction with the Writing Program at the New School, is sponsoring in November the second annual LWC}NYC, a three-day conference for fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction writers featurin [...]

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Folio Magazine Award Finalists Named

By Kevin Morrissey

September 7, 2007

For the third year in a row, VQR has been named a finalist for a Folio Magazine Eddie Award, honoring editorial excellence. VQR's Winter 2007 issue was picked as one of the best issues of the year in the Association/Non-Profit category, along with Na [...]

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Electronic Submission System Released

By Waldo Jaquith

September 6, 2007

We're both proud and a little nervous to release into the wild the VQR electronic submission system. We constructed this system ourselves (on a PHP/MySQL platform) with the primary criterion of making it as simple to use as possible. It's a snap to s [...]

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Rona Jaffe Writers Awards to Ekiss and Grotz

By Kevin Morrissey

September 5, 2007

Congrats go to VQR contributors Robin Ekiss and Jennifer Grotz, who have just been named as winners of the 2007 Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Awards, given annually to six women writers who "demonstrate excellence and promise in the early stages o [...]

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Ashbery Honored

By Honor Jones

August 30, 2007

After months puzzling over the literal meaning and possible implications of Fat Joe’s “I make it rain,” mtvU fans are moving on to even more challenging artists. John Ashbery, winner of the Pulitzer Prize, National Book Award, a MacArthur Fello [...]

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“Get out of my life and stay out of my life.”

By Waldo Jaquith

August 24, 2007

Elizabeth, at Charlottesville Words, provides perhaps the strangest rejection letter that has ever been sent. We've been a little sensitive about our own rejection letters ever since David Keeling awarded us a C+, but now I see that, relatively speak [...]

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Remembering Oliver W. Hill

By Ted Genoways

August 7, 2007

Civil rights pioneer Oliver W. Hill Sr. has died in Richmond at 100 years old and will lie in state at the Executive Mansion on Saturday from noon to 5 p.m. Governor Kaine has ordered the state flag to be flown at half-staff statewide until sunset Su [...]

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Simic Named U.S. Poet Laureate

By Waldo Jaquith

August 3, 2007

Long-time VQR contributor Charles Simic was named the United States poet laureate yesterday. Simic's work in VQR has included "Memories of the Future," "Meditation in the Gutter" and "Ghost Ship." Subscribers to the magazine can also read "Death of a [...]

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Kevin Morrissey Is a Book Brahmin

By Ted Genoways

July 27, 2007

The good people at Shelf Awareness have anointed our managing editor, Kevin Morrissey, one of its "Book Brahmins" and posed the usual set of questions. His answers can be found here. We were especially pleased to see his plug for Driving and Drinking [...]

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