The Literary Review: The Rat's Nest

The Literary Review is a beautifully designed literary quarterly featuring some of the best international writers of our generation. Content includes short stories, poems, essays, belle lettres and book commentary, as well as author interviews. The Literary Review is one of the hippest literary magazines in the country that is also over half a century old. The Rat's Nest issue features an exquisite corpse by 17 famous poets, such as Tom Sleigh, Meghan O'Rourke, James Richardson, Kelly Cherry, Jeffrey Yang, Robert Polito, Cole Swenson, and other luminaries who agreed to play games with poetry for just once. Stories about literary intrigue and the indie music scene in Cambridge, collaboration, misplaced immigrants, murder in Portugal, love, divorce, cancer. Poems about the gallows, the tides, grief, the star nose mole, and zombies.