Halsey Literary Reader
Each issue includes thirty poems and ten pictures from up to twenty artists. Plus at least two short essays on craft.
A semi-regular collection of words and pictures, HALSEY focuses on the art and science of living and what it means to be human. We welcome all kinds of poems and photographs, short essays on craft, and reviews of small press poetry books.
Look & Listen: Each issue includes thirty poems and ten pictures from up to twenty artists. Plus at least two short essays on craft. And maybe a review or two. Each piece is both technically sound and doing something only it can do. HALSEY is designed to be looked at and listened to.
Growing Together: Wisdom comes from a collective, iterative process. HALSEY brings readers, viewers, writers, and photographers together. And each issue is organized to prompt insights, ideas, and resolution about what it means to be human, modes of understanding that none of us could reach alone. Because we need each other.
Expert Curation: Our readers and editors have decades of combined experience, seeking out work that is timely and timeless; that offers some surprise, taking us somewhere other than what we expected; that is touched by humor; that can be read over and over and over again without losing its power. And each issue of HALSEY is an opportunity for us to celebrate what others are doing.
Discovery Space: Independent journals like HALSEY aren’t lucrative. We aren’t guided by target audiences or profit margins. We feature art made for love, and that art is transformed when it is placed in conversation with other pieces in each issue we produce. The voices and visions of our contributors amplify each other. That makes this humble literary journal the perfect place to discover new voices and new ideas.
There will come a great change. There is no way to tell how long this change has been coming. There is no way to tell what the change will be. —Carolyn Adams
Let us taste the soil with our eyes. Let us inhale sky with our hearts. —Lana Hechtman Ayers