We here at Painted Bride Quarterly would like to congratulate Jiwon Choi on her newest book, One Daughter is Worth Ten Sons! Two of the poems featured, “I Pay My Book Fine” and “Jane Austen, Reconsider” were first published in Issue 92 of PBQ. Congrats, Jiwon, we know we will continue to see great things […]
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Laura McCullough Published in APR
Today we received our copy of Volume 46/ No. 2 of The American Poetry Review and were incredibly excited to see Laura McCullough‘s “I Am Calling You” on the back spread! Our own Wendy Cannella conducted an interview with McCullough and wrote “Finding the Body: on McCullough’s Jercy Mercy,” a review of McCullough’s latest collection […]
Sara Aykit in Her First Publication!
We always love celebrating our authors and staff here at PBQ, and today we’re excited to announce that our Editorial Assistant Sara Aykit has just been published for the first time in The Cadaverine! Check out her poem, “Pointless“! Sara Aykit currently resides in Philadelphia. She is a student at Drexel University and an intern […]
Colin Dodds Releases Book
We at PBQ are excited to celebrate the release of Watershed, a novel by one of our authors, Colin Dodds! Dodds’ poem, “The Labyrinth in the Third Millennium,” was first published in Issue 91 of Painted Bride Quarterly. Congrats, Colin, we hope to see more great things from you!
PBQ and One Book, One Philadelphia!
We’re excited to announce that we will be hosting a reading and a round of our Slam, Bam, Thank You Ma’am Writing Improv Game on February 13 in collaboration with One Book, One Philadelphia! Come check out Patrick Rosal, Julia Bloch, Thomas Devaney, Cindy Arreiu-King, and Kalela Williams in the Pen and Pencil Club at […]
Lynn Hoffman Publishes Book of Poetry
We are proud to announce that Lynn Hoffman has published a book of poems titled Philadelphia Poems (Kelsay Books, 2016). Included in this collection is the poem, “from the barber, Carmello” first published in Issue 94 of Painted Bride Quarterly. Congratulations, Lynn, we can’t wait to see more great things from you!
12/7/2016 Tim Fitts on Tastykakes
“By the way, I have some very positive things to say about the candy cakes. The industrial aftertaste didn’t show up until 30 seconds or so after eating them, and even then the aftertaste was minimal. The texture, though, was something so elegant, it tasted like something out of the Old Testament. And the peanut […]
November Black Sheep Reading
Last night, PBQ soldiered on and hosted its monthly reading at the Black Sheep Pub in Philadelphia with Anne-Adele Wight, Cynthia Dewi Oka, Lillian Dunn, and Brad Windhauser. First up, we had Lillian Dunn, program manager of SPACES and co-founder of Apiary Magazine who shared with us poetry on the small details of beauty around […]
Linwood Rumney Publishes First Book
Painted Bride Quarterly is proud to celebrate that one of our writers, Linwood Rumney, has just released his first book, Abandoned Earth, which was awarded the Gival Press Poetry Award. Rumney was first featured in PBQ with “Bao Xishin in Beijieng” in Issue 94/Locals. Congratulations, Linwood, we are excited to see more great things from […]
Paul Siegell Published in APR
We are very excited to announce that one of our very own, Paul Siegell has been published in the American Poetry Review for five poems titled “M__TM___RE (90),” “M__TM___RE (97),”M__TM___RE (304),” “M__TM___RE (318),” and “M__TM___RE (344)” in vol. 45 no. 6! Paul is a senior editor for PBQ and has published three books of poetry, […]