Fringe Magazine

FringeTheMagazine@gmail.com
http://thenounthatverbsyourworld.blogspot.com/

Editor-in-chief: Lizzie Starks (Jenkins, she loves Buffy, too.)

Poetry editor: Anna Lena Phillips

Fringe is an online journal (for practical and environmental purposes) that publishes four times a year.

Recently published:
Megann Sept, Casey Wiley, Kelley Calvert, Anna L. Cates, Margarita Engle, Elaine Batcher, Jennifer Coke, Doug Cornett, William Walsh (These are just random names, whatever.)

Style & Editorial mission:
Fringe has a published manifesto, so you know these people have an explicit motivation for their work. They aim “to fight against the homogenization of culture and the loss of revolutionary literature at the high-literary and popular levels” by publishing work at the “fringe.” Ahh, the title makes sense. “We are about writing that confronts and questions.” I am wondering whether it must be out-and-out political/economic, or whether they are into confrontation and questioning of language, etc.
The style of the poems published varies. Some are more “out there” than others, which are more referential. The “message” of most is evident, for example, there were a couple poems published that deal with Cuba and American consumer culture. One poem by another guy reminded me of Caleb Puckett’s work. It was a conversation between two old grannies.

Submission info:
Fringe publishes a variety of written genres besides poetry, including “unclassifiable.” They also accept sound files, which is good if someone wanted to use a multimedia approach with their poems. (For example, maybe Zoe could submit a recording of her two-person poem that she and Whitney read at our class reading.) It appears from the names listed that most or all of the editors are women. This hints that it might be a good place to submit feminist or gender-related work.
Submissions are accepted on a rolling basis, but unsolicited submissions for poetry are currently closed until May 1. Submissions should contain four to seven poems, or just one if the poem is long. (Longer than 40 lines is their guideline here.)
They also just started (today!) a round robin story on their blog, with finished submissions due by June 15 and the results to be published some time after.