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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, the Netherlands

Amsterdam

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. In 2009, Poets & Writers magazine listed Versal as One of '22 lit mags that do more for your work.'

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.

Staff

Editor: Megan M. Garr
Managing Editor: Sarah Ream
Poetry Editor: Megan M. Garr
Fiction Editor: Robert Glick
Art Editor: Shayna Schapp

Assistant Editors:

Jennifer Arcuni
Anna Arov
Reed van Brunschot
Jennifer K. Dick
Kate Foley
BJ Hollars
Terri Hron
Kai Lashley
Bonnie J. Rough
Dafna Ruppin
Matthew Sadler
Mirabai Lacazette de Monchy
Hélène Webers

Contributors

The journal's contributors include:

Versal 9

Louis Armand

Louis Armand (writer)

Louis Armand is a writer, visual artist and critical theorist. Born in Sydney, he has lived in Prague since 1994 where he is director of the Centre for Critical and Cultural Theory at the Department of Anglophone Literatures and Culture, Charles University.-Works:His poems have appeared in...

Stace Budzko

Yago Cura

Heather Hartley

Stacy Kidd

Jane Lewty

Nate Liederbach

Tony Mancus

Antoinette Nausikaä

Alice Notley

Alice Notley

Alice Notley is an American poet. She was born in Bisbee, Arizona and grew up in Needles, California. She received a B.A. from Barnard College in 1967 and an M.F.A. from the Iowa Writers' Workshop at the University of Iowa in 1969. She married poet Ted Berrigan in 1972, with whom she was active in...

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

Kuzhali Manickavel

Kuzhali Manickavel is an Indian writer who writes in English. She was born in Winnipeg, Canada and moved to India when she was thirteen. She currently lives in Chidambaram, Tamil Nadu. Her first book - Insects Are Just Like You And Me Except Some Of Them Have Wings was published by Blaft...

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

Ben Doller

Ben Doller is an American poet & writer.-Life:He graduated from the State University of New York at Oswego, and West Virginia University....

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

Tatjana Lukić

Tatjana Lukić was a Croatia born Australian poetry editor and poet.- Life :Tatjana Lukić was born in the former Yugoslavia where she spent her first 33 years...

Alex Piperno

Claire Potter

Mark Terrill

Aleida Rodriguez

Versal 3

Marilyn Hacker

Marilyn Hacker

Marilyn Hacker is an American poet, translator and critic. She is Professor of English at the City College of New York....

Naomi Shihab Nye

Naomi Shihab Nye is a poet, songwriter, and novelist. She was born to a Palestinian father and American mother. Although she regards herself as a "wandering poet", she refers to San Antonio as her home.-Career:...

Russell Edson

Julie Doxsee

Barbara Jane Reyes

Barbara Jane Reyes

Barbara Jane Reyes is an American poet whose work "explores the translatable and untranslatable collisions of writing self and culture."She was born in Manila, Philippines and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area. She received her B.A. in Ethnic Studies at UC Berkeley...

Joanna Klink

Joanna Klink is an American poet. Her most recent poetry collection is Raptus , and her poems have been published in literary journals and magazines including Chicago Review and Boston Review. She was born in Iowa City, Iowa. She received her M.F.A. in poetry from the Iowa Writers' Workshop, and...

Sandy Florian

Versal 2

L. Ward Abel

Kate Foley

Noah Eli Gordon

Claudia Grinnell

Rob McLennan

Michael Rothenberg

Michael Rothenberg

Michael Rothenberg is an American poet, songwriter, editor, and active environmentalist in the San Francisco Bay Area. Born in Miami Beach, Florida, Rothenberg received his Bachelor of Arts in English at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill...

Larry Sawyer

Joshua Marie Wilkinson

Sonia Zagwyn

Reviews

Prizes and features

- Featured in the Sept/Oct 2005 edition of Poets & Writers Magazine

- Listed as one of the '22 Lit Mags That Do More For Your Work' in Poets & Writers

- 'Best Literary Magazine' of Amsterdam (TimeOut, October, 2009)

- 'Indie Innovator' listed by Poets & Writers

- Excerpt from Versal 8 featured on Luna Park Review

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