Karan Kapoor is the Editor-in-Chief of ONLY POEMS and an MFA candidate at Virginia Tech. A finalist for the Diode, Tusculum Review, and Iron Horse Literary Review chapbook prizes, their poems have appeared in AGNI, Shenandoah, Colorado Review, and elsewhere. Their fiction has appeared in JOYLAND, and their translations in The Offing and The Los Angeles Review. They worship at the altar of Leonard Cohen and are currently treating the class they teach as a church to spread love fo...| decembermag.org
We’re excited to share the cover for our final issue, Vol. 36.1, featuring Library of Babel, by Buzz Spector. This particular image is from Spector’s 2012 survey exhibit, “Buzz Spector: Off the […]|
Gibson Fay-LeBlanc’s first collection of poems, Death of a Ventriloquist won the Vassar Miller Prize, and his second, Deke Dangle Dive, was published by CavanKerry Press in 2021. His poems have appeared recently in magazines including Narrative Magazine, Pleiades, Poetry Northwest, and Orion. He currently serves as Executive Director of the Maine Writers & Publishers Alliance.| decembermag.org
Each year, december is honored to host a Guest Judge for our poetry and prose contests. Our judges are writers whose work is beloved and whose contributions to the literary […]|
A. J. Bermudez is an award-winning author and filmmaker based in Los Angeles and New York. She's "attracted to stories in which extremely intelligent characters are thrown into subservience, stories that track an arc from non-agency to agency. And the most interesting stories to me are both literal and figurative."|
In our Spring/Summer 2024 issue, Buzz Spector, our Art Editor, carefully selected works that explore the theme of property and individuality within shared spaces.|
Bob Hicok is the author of Water Look Away (Copper Canyon Press, 2023). He has received a Guggenheim, two NEA Fellowships, the Bobbitt Prize from the Library of Congress, nine Pushcart Prizes, and was twice a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. His poems have appeared in nine volumes of the Best American Poetry.| decembermag.org
Maggie Smith is the New York Times bestselling author of eight books of poetry and prose, including You Could Make This Place Beautiful, Good Bones, Goldenrod, Keep Moving, and My Thoughts Have Wings, a picture book for children, illustrated by Leanne Hatch. Smith’s next book is Dear Writer: Pep Talks & Practical Advice for the Creative Life (Atria, April 2025). Her poems and essays have appeared in the New York Times, The New Yorker, The Paris Review, TIME, The Nation, The Atlantic, and Th...| december magazine
Our inaugural Off the Page event was a huge success. The first in a series of free online conversations with our Guest Judges. Each year, december is honored to host a Guest Judge for our poetry and prose contests. Our judges are writers whose work is beloved and whose contributions to the literary community are uniquely significant. Roxanne Gay, Joyce Carol Oates, Taté Walker, Brittney Cooper, Anne Tyler, Eula Biss, Albert Goldbarth, Rita Mae Brown, and many others have lent their expertis...| december magazine
