''B O D Y'' is an international online

literary magazine A literary magazine is a periodical devoted to literature in a broad sense. Literary magazines usually publish short stories, poetry, and essays, along with literary criticism, book reviews, biographical profiles of authors, interviews and letter ...

publishing new work on a rolling basis. It publishes

short stories A short story is a piece of prose fiction that typically can be read in one sitting and focuses on a self-contained incident or series of linked incidents, with the intent of evoking a single effect or mood. The short story is one of the oldest t ...

poetry Poetry (derived from the Greek ''poiesis'', "making"), also called verse, is a form of literature that uses aesthetic and often rhythmic qualities of language − such as phonaesthetics, sound symbolism, and metre − to evoke meanings i ...

creative nonfiction Creative nonfiction (also known as literary nonfiction or narrative nonfiction or literary journalism or verfabula) is a genre of writing that uses literary styles and techniques to create factually accurate narratives. Creative nonfiction contra ...

, reviews,

translations Translation is the communication of the meaning of a source-language text by means of an equivalent target-language text. The English language draws a terminological distinction (which does not exist in every language) between ''transl ...

essays An essay is, generally, a piece of writing that gives the author's own argument, but the definition is vague, overlapping with those of a letter, a paper, an article, a pamphlet, and a short story. Essays have been sub-classified as formal ...

, artworks, photography, performance texts and has been noted for its elegant, intuitive design and for its editorial vision. ''B O D Y'' was founded in

Prague Prague ( ; cs, Praha ; german: Prag, ; la, Praga) is the capital and largest city in the Czech Republic, and the historical capital of Bohemia. On the Vltava river, Prague is home to about 1.3 million people. The city has a temperate ...

by Christopher Crawford, Joshua Mensch and Stephan Delbos in 2012. ''B O D Y'' was at the very forefront of the digital revolution of literary magazines and fostered the growing familiarity between US poets and their British counterparts at that time through providing an online platform which features the work of both. It is also noted for regularly publishing Central and Eastern European literature in translation. ''B O D Y'' is published in

English language English is a West Germanic language of the Indo-European language family, with its earliest forms spoken by the inhabitants of early medieval England. It is named after the Angles, one of the ancient Germanic peoples that migrated to the is ...

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Richard Siken Richard Siken (born February 15, 1967) is a North-American poet, painter, and filmmaker. He is the author of the collection '' Crush'' (Yale University Press, 2005), which won the Yale Series of Younger Poets Competition in 2004. His second book o ...

* Dara Weir * Geoffrey Nutter *

Jeffrey McDaniel Jeffrey McDaniel (born 1967) is an American poet. He has published six books of poetry, most recently ''Holiday in the Islands of Grief'' (University of Pittsburgh Press). He is the recipient of a creative writing fellowship from the National End ...

* Miklos Radnoti *

Jane Hirshfield Jane Hirshfield (born February 24, 1953) is an American poet, essayist, and translator, known as 'one of American poetry's central spokespersons for the biosphere' and recognized as 'among the modern masters,' 'writing some of the most important ...

Jill McDonough Jill Susann McDonough is an American poet. Life She grew up in North Carolina. She graduated from Stanford University and has an MA from Boston University. She taught in the Prison Education Program of Boston University. Her work has appear ...

Daniil Kharms Daniil Ivanovich Kharms (russian: Дании́л Ива́нович Хармс; – 2 February 1942) was an early Soviet-era Russian avant-gardist and absurdist poet, writer and dramatist. Early years Kharms was born as Daniil Yuvachev ...

Anna Akhmatova Anna Andreyevna Gorenko rus, А́нна Андре́евна Горе́нко, p=ˈanːə ɐnˈdrʲe(j)ɪvnə ɡɐˈrʲɛnkə, a=Anna Andreyevna Gorenko.ru.oga, links=yes; uk, А́нна Андрі́ївна Горе́нко, Ánna Andríyivn ...

Laura Kasischke Laura Kasischke is an American fiction writer and poet. She is best known for writing the novels '' Suspicious River'', ''The Life Before Her Eyes'' and '' White Bird in a Blizzard'', all of which have been adapted to film. Life and work She was ...

* Bruce Bond *

Lucy Alibar Lucy Alibar (born Lucy Harrison in 1983) is an American screenwriter and playwright best known for co-writing the 2012 film ''Beasts of the Southern Wild'' with Benh Zeitlin. Early life Lucy Alibar was raised near Monticello, Florida; her pare ...

Robert Archambeau (poet) Robert Archambeau (born 1968) is a poet and literary critic whose works include the books ''Citation Suite'', ''Home and Variations'' ''Laureates and Heretics'', ''The Poet Resigns: Poetry in a Difficult World'', ''The Kafka Sutra'' and ''Inventi ...

Eugenio Montale Eugenio Montale (; 12 October 1896 – 12 September 1981) was an Italian poet, prose writer, editor and translator, and recipient of the 1975 Nobel Prize in Literature. Life and works Early years Montale was born in Genoa. His family were che ...

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Rolf Dieter Brinkmann Rolf Dieter Brinkmann (16 April 1940 – 23 April 1975) was a German writer of poems, short stories, a novel, essays, letters, and diaries. Life and work Rolf Dieter Brinkmann is considered an important forerunner of the German so-called ''Pop-Li ...

Ernest Hilbert Ernest Hilbert (born 1970) is an American poet, critic, opera librettist, and editor. Biography Ernest Hilbert was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, and grew up in South Jersey. He graduated summa cum laude with a bachelor's ...

Justin Quinn Justin Quinn (born 1968 in Dublin) is an Irish poet and critic. He received a doctorate from Trinity College, Dublin, where his contemporaries included poets David Wheatley, Caitriona O'Reilly and Sinéad Morrissey, and now lives with his wif ...

* David Morley *

Alison Brackenbury Alison Brackenbury (born 1953 Gainsborough, LincolnshireAlison Brackenbury , poe ...

Matthew Olzmann Matthew Olzmann is a poet, author, and essayist. Personal life Matthew Olzmann was born in Detroit, Michigan. He currently teaches at Dartmouth College, and the MFA program at Warren Wilson College. Olzmann is married to poet Vievee Francis. ...

Ilya Kaminsky Ilya Kaminsky (born April 18, 1977) is a hard-of-hearing, USSR-born, Ukrainian-Russian-Jewish-American poet, critic, translator and professor. He is best known for his poetry collections ''Dancing in Odesa'' and ''Deaf Republic'', which have earn ...

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* Christopher Crawford - Founding Editor * Joshua Mensch - Founding Editor * Stephan Delbos - Founding Editor * Michael Stein - Editor * Jan Zikmund - Editor * Jessica Mensch - Art Editor * Ben Williams - Performance Text Editor

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