This Los Angeles-based magazine is published semi-annually and contains the work of talented poets, writers and artists from around the world.

One of the first young magazines to organize each issue around a theme, Chain continues to redefine the "avant-guard" as the connections between diverse writing communities.  Chain's magazine stopped publishing in 2005, and now publishes books in their "Chainlinks" series.

Refusing the easy division between "experimental" and "mainstream" writing, Rebecca Wolff's magazine has quickly become a popular literary crossroads.

An annual literary journal whose contributors range from the very well-known to the (as yet) completely obscure. Each issue presents a carefully selected collection of works from some of the most innovative poets and writers in contemporary literature.

Kenning is a not-for-profit newsletter of contemporary poetry, poetics, and nonfiction writing. Founded in 1998, Kenning publishes three generations of innovative authors and artists, translations, and critical work. Kenning Editions presents issues of the newsletter in the form of chapbooks and audio CD's. Each issue of Kenning is hand-crafted and internationally acclaimed.

This site is home to the online versions of Konch Magazine and Vines Magazine, both published by Ishmael Reed. Konch contains a wide range of articles, short fiction, poetry, and book reviews while Vines, a quarterly publication, concentrates on poetry and fiction.

Since its inception in 1986 in New York City, Shiny has been tracking an influential group of poetry and fiction innovators in a way that has made it a unique venue on the contemporary literary scene.

Hoa Nguyen and her husband, Dale Smith, from Austin, Texas, occasionally put out this journal, their "very low-fi attempt to share poetry with friends and poets around the world."

Focused on ethnography, poetry, and the "documentary experience," XCP continues to bring many the strands of race, gender and identity together.