THE LITERARY TIMES MAGAZINE SPECIAL EDITION Where Poetry Transcends Language and Occupies Visual Space 42 pages • PDF Format • 5.37 MB ABOUT THIS ISSUE: This special issue brings together the winning works from our Concrete Poetry Contests, poems that do not merely speak, but occupy the visual space. Selected from a wide and competitive…
In the third chapter of her book, The Reading Figure in Irish Art in the Long Nineteenth Century, Tricia Cusack records a pivotal scene from a short story by Sarah Grand (73–74). Grand, a prominent, late-nineteenth-century women’s rights activist in Ireland, captures one possible reaction to “the New Woman,” in her story, “The Undefinable” (73)….
Your work is really marketable, you know, with the #MeToo movement and all. Yes, a male poetry professor actually said this to me my first semester in a MFA creative writing program. In hindsight, one goal of every MFA from a technical standpoint is to create authors that are marketable. More money equals bigger names…
‘Indeed, the moment an artist takes notice of what other people want, and tries to supply the demand, he ceases to be an artist, and becomes a dumb or amazing craftsman, an honest or a dishonest tradesman’. 1 For the enfant terrible, that young and particular breed of artist, commerce is not an area of…
Introduction Silence is often misunderstood as emptiness—a lack of words, a gap in the narrative, an unfinished conversation. Yet, in literature, silence is never empty. It is deliberate. It carries weight, tension, and meaning that words alone cannot hold. Writers across centuries have used silence as a powerful narrative device: to express what characters cannot…
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“The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones” – William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar It is often said evil supersedes death. That we carry our goodwill to our grave while our injustices live on, despite our corporal disappearance. It is often told a lie gets halfway across the …
The Literary Times Magazine Issue 06 ABOUT THIS ISSUE: From the moment a boundary is drawn—whether by law, tradition, or the self—it becomes a question, a challenge, a whisper in the dark. A desire to break it, cross it overtakes. Forbidden things carry the weight of both warning and allure, and that tension is where…
We live in a time where internet is everywhere, in our pockets, on our desks, and even woven into our daily routines. It helps us build careers, stay informed, connect with people across the globe—and yet, something strange is happening. Despite being more connected than ever, many of us feel more alone. The internet is…
I was reading The Silent Woman (1993) by Janet Malcolm, a book on the life of Sylvia Plath. What I thought to be a simple biography of the poet turned out to be more than that. The book was about the people who wrote about and profited from the now-deceased Sylvia Plath. The main way…
