Artful Dodge

WELCOME to Artful Dodge, an Ohio-based literary magazine that publishes work with a strong sense of place and cultural landscape. Besides new American fiction, poetry and narrative essay, we're also interested in contemporary literature in translation — from all over the globe. Our magazine is available through independent and chain bookstores nationwide, and directly through us. If your local bookstore doesn't offer Artful Dodge, ask for them to carry it, or write to us with the name of your Bookstore, and we'll see what we can do to bring our pages to other readers around you. 

 

Artful Dodge 50/51

Our Newest Issue is out! Released this past March, Issue 50/51 of the Artful Dodge is packed with good things. This issue includes:

Interview: Changing the Whole Neighborhood: An Interview with Rita Dove

Poets as Translators: Derek Mong's Songs of Sickness: adaptations from the 17th Century Latin of Jesuit priests

Swimming in the Translator's Key: Alexis Levitin's translations from the Portuguese of Rosa Alice Branco

New Poetry: Nin Andrews, Hayan Charara, Kevin Clark, Robert Cording, Jim Daniels, James Grinwis, and more

A Letter from Fairbanks: John Kooistra's remembrance of Alaskan poets John Haines, Margorie Cole, Kim Cornwell, and Joe Enzweiler

Graphica: Jody Servon's Items Matching: A foray into eBay's art culture

And More!

 

 

Also available from Artful Dodge: On the Crossroads of Asia and Europe, a collection of poetry and satirical prose of Polish writer Tomasz Jastrun, winner of the 1983 "S Prize" from Underground Solidarity for his poetry during Poland's martial law period in the early 1980's.

 

Some praise for On the Crossroads of Asia and Europe:       

"A friend and fellow writer, speaking in reference to contemporary poetry, remarked to me not long ago that the true poets are not those in search of something to write about, but those whose subjects have discovered them. I find this confirmed in reading the poems of Tomasz Jastrun." -John Haines

 

"Here at last we have a generous selection of Tomasz Jastrun's poems and prose chronicling the disintegration of Poland, and celebrating the unlikely survival of the human spirit. We have Daniel Bourne to thank for guiding these poems into English." -John Witte, Editor, Northwest Review

 

"Deep gratitude to Daniel Bourne and Salmon Run Press for making available in English the profoundly moving voice of Polish writer, Tomasz Jastrun. This is crucial, empowering work." -Naomi Shihab Nye

 To learn more and find out how to order On the Crossroads of Asia and Europe, click here.

 

On the Crossroads of Asia and Europe

 

 

 

Ordering

While we are striving to create online ordering capabilities, for now it's down to the good old mail ordering. You can pick up your copy of the Artful Dodge by sending cash or check orders to:

Artful Dodge
Daniel Bourne, Editor
Department of English
The College of Wooster
Wooster, OH 44691

Remember, our newest issue is $10.00 while back issues are $5.00.