Category Archives: Editors

Gone Fishing

Posted on April 26, 2013 by admin

Radius will be taking the next few weeks off. In the meantime, please enjoy our archived poems and essays. And if you happen to be in Southern California, we’d love to see you at the first ever Radius showcase reading: … Continue reading →

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A Prayer For Boston

Posted on April 15, 2013 by admin

Like the rest of the world, we’ve been watching the events unfold in Boston with unabashed horror. For the editors of Radius, Boston is practically home, a mere hour from our residence in Worcester. It is a city dear to … Continue reading →

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Absent Friends: Radius, Volume Three

Posted on January 26, 2013 by admin

By Victor D. Infante These past few weeks, I have been preoccupied with my late friend Jack McCarthy. Jack was one of the best poets and people I knew, and I find his ghost speaking to me whenever I type. … Continue reading →

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Radius: Kevin Young, Scott Woods, Jamila Woods …

Posted on December 7, 2012 by admin

The Editors Write: Scott Woods is a writer who has a way of getting under the skin of culture, and uncovering what is indelibly human there. He doesn’t overly concern himself with conventions. He’s as likely to pull from H.P. … Continue reading →

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We Meet As Strangers: Our 2012 Pushcart Nominees

Posted on November 22, 2012 by admin

There comes a point, in the course of publishing a literary journal, where you look back and begin to see some of the underlying themes that you’ve been reaching for, the ones you couldn’t articulate at first, but which were … Continue reading →

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Gone Fishing

Posted on September 21, 2012 by admin

Well, actually, we’re just taking a few weeks off to catch up on submissions and work on a few other projects. We’ll be back soon. Also: Just a note. We’ve been slammed HARD by spam lately, and worse, it’s spam … Continue reading →

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Our “Best Indie Lit New England” Nominations

Posted on July 5, 2012 by admin

It’s difficult for us to think of ourselves as a New England periodical. Aside from the fact that the editors live here, Radius exists in sort of a nether zone, both everywhere and nowhere. Our regular contributors are scattered around … Continue reading →

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They Got the Guns, But we Got the Numbers: Why Radius Will Continue to Submit to the Pushcart Prize

Posted on June 21, 2012 by admin

By Victor D. Infante There is a manner in which you chew too long on irrelevant questions, the way you feel obliged to answer them, but find instead a stuttering nothing lodged in your throat, a stammer as you begin … Continue reading →

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Help Support the Best of Indie Literature New England

Posted on May 25, 2012 by Victor D. Infante

Radius has never asked for money, nor has its predecessor, The November 3rd Club. We don’t even take donations, which has been pointed out to us from time to time whenever we have to renew our hosting service. It’s all … Continue reading →

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Journeys Through the Underworld in Ai’s “Reunions with a Ghost”

Posted on May 13, 2012 by admin

By Lea C. Deschenes “Reunions with a Ghost” by Ai, read by Lea C. Deschenes By titling her poem “Reunions with a Ghost,” Ai foreshadows the poem’s connections with the myths of Odysseus, Orpheus, and Innana. All three narratives feature … Continue reading →

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