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Past Issues

dislocate #5

Our fifth print issue is the first themed issue of dislocate, "Transitions." Our flash fiction contest honors writers who are working along the border of poetry and fiction; Kevin Wilson contributes a story about a man who finds himself slowly phased out of his comfortable married life; and women from the Grace House transitional home offer short prose responses to Jacob Lawrence's Great Migration series of paintings.

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dislocate #4

The fourth print issue of dislocate features a poetry contest, graphic art by Brian Ness, and much more. Read selections online: Ryan Collins, Elaine Winer, Jane Ashley.

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dislocate #3

Issue 3 introduces dislocate's first nonfiction contest winner, Keisha Lewellyn Schlegel, and plenty of more essays, stories, and poems, as well as an interviews with T.C. Boyle and Claudia Rankine.

Read selections online: Anita Martin, Peter Markus, Ander Monson, Joshua Marie Wilkinson & Noah Eli Gordon.

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dislocate #2

The second issue of dislocate features work by Sheryl St. Germaine and Katrina Vandenberg, interviews with Phillip Levine and Phillip Lopate, and specially reprinted poetry by the late John Berryman.

Read selections online: Lydia Winter, Alex Ortolani, Kent MacCarter, Katrina Vandenberg

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dislocate #1

The very first print issue of dislocate! Books orders are limited.

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dislocate online Fall 2004

William Reichard, Deborah Keenan, Michael Louis Medrano, Anne Gorrik, Shanda Hansma Blue, Jonas Lerman, Dana Cann, Derrick White, Joni Tevis, Anna Cypra Oliver, plus an interview with Juan Felipe Herra.

dislocate online 2001-2004

Thomas Haley, Makela Mangrich, David Bernardy, Margie Newman, Dominic Saucedo, Zelda Alpern, Elizabeth Noll, Michael Seward, Brady Johnson, E. Noll, Mary Paden, Gretchen Scherer , Sun Yung Shin, Alex Lemon, Benjamin Buchholz, Kathleen Glasgow, and more.

Recent Articles

  • Justin Cronin's The Passage: A Review, of Sorts
    Editor

    passage1.jpg784 pp., Ballatine, $27

    Reviewed by Sara Joy Culver

    1.
    The important thing to understand before you read this review is that I am not a snob.

    [read]8.24.10

  • Literary Lessons from Across the Pond
    Editor

    This excerpt from the diary of Eric Murphy, dated 24 June 2010, is currently on loan to dislocate.org from the British National Museum for Literature.

    24 June 2010
    As I find myself in the middle of an extended stay on a peculiar, far-flung Island which has no access to Taco Bell and whose barbaric entertainment systems are incompatible with my 30 Rock digital versatile discks, I need something to occupy me throughout the evening and night.

    [read]8.01.10

Recent Columns

  • Air Conditioning, dislocated // David LeGault
    Editor

    I write this while sitting underneath a small, window air conditioner, one that barely cools the space around me, not to mention the entire room. Outside, the temperature clocks in at 91 degrees with humidity somewhere between 70 and 80 percent, the heat index somewhere in the triple digits, completely obscene.

     [read]9.01.10

  • Macondos // J. Lee Morsell
    Editor

    I'm visiting my hometown in rural northern California, and as I write this I'm sitting on an ocean bluff in fog so thick I can't see the water. I am told that this particular bluff is home to the southernmost individual Sitka spruce on the west coast, but the tree is allegedly nestled in a hidden rocky crevice and I haven't located it yet. The fog doesn't help, of course.

     [read]8.24.10

What's Going On

  • Issue 7 Reading Period Open
    Editor

    Attention writers and readers: We are now accepting poetry, fiction, and nonfiction submissions for our Issue 7 reading period, July 15 to November 15, 2010. This year we have transitioned to an online-only submission policy: submit your work via Submishmash. This will streamline our reading process and expedite responses to our prospective contributors.

    [read]7.14.10

  • dislocate Launch Party: What You Missed
    Editor

    Didn't get a chance to attend dislocate's annual shindig, celebrating the new issue release and the launch of the website whose site tracker statistics you are at this very moment improving? We made a slideshow for you so that you would make sure to clear your calendar and book plane tickets to Minneapolis for next year.

    [read]5.16.10

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