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Lit Mag Covers: Picks of the Week recognizes cover art and designs for literary magazines, whether in print or online. These are chosen solely at the discretion of the Editor. Enjoy!

deLuge online literary arts journal is devoted to the creativity that arises from dreams and the deeply felt/experienced life. The Summer 2023 issue cover art is by Eric Lunde (Old Early Script), whose work is also featured inside along with other asemic and vispo contributors.

Fall 2023 The Elevation Review, “Black as the Ocean,” celebrates poets of color, exploring contemporary verse “that resonates like waves, powerful and unrelenting.”

The Twin Bill quarterly online literary journal dedicated to baseball features the work of Sam Williams on the cover of their newest issue, (lucky) Issue 13.

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Lit Mag Covers: Picks of the Week recognizes cover art and designs for literary magazines, whether in print or online. These are chosen solely at the discretion of the Editor. Enjoy!

Cycles and Cyclones (2017) mixed media (burlap, dye, wire) by Nnenna Okore is the colorful cover of Prairie Schooner‘s Winter 2022 issue.

There’s so much to appreciate about Slightly Foxed: The Real Reader’s Journal from Britain, the Autumn 2023 cover artist Maxwell Doig’s, “Southwold Rooftops II,” acrylic on canvas on panel, is the perfect invitation.

Of course, at least one Halloween-themed cover would be nice, and that honor goes to The Deadlands, a monthly online zine about death. Cover image by inkshark.

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Lit Mag Covers: Picks of the Week recognizes cover art and designs for literary magazines, whether in print or online. These are chosen solely at the discretion of the Editor. Enjoy!

Raoul P. Brosseau’s work, Le Protecteur, blends summer and fall on the newest cover of The Healing Muse: A Journal of Literary & Visual Art (Fall 2023) published by SUNY Upstate Medical University’s Center for Bioethics & Humanities.

Hailing from the University of Colorado, Denver, the fall 2023 issue of Copper Nickel features a collage of woven inkjet prints on Hahnemuhle bamboo paper, Hahnemuhle rice paper, beeswax, and artist tape entitled Charles, 2022 by Sarah Sense.

Issue 23 of the online poetry journal petrichor is dedicated to the memory of Catherine Vidler and features the work of experimental writer and visual poet Andrew Brenza on the cover.

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Lit Mag Covers: Picks of the Week recognizes cover art and designs for literary magazines, whether in print or online. These are chosen solely at the discretion of the Editor. Enjoy!

Celebrating fifty years of publication this year, the newest issue of CutBank Literary Magazine (99) is their “First Ever Indigenous Writers’ Issue,” and features Red-Winged Blackbird Council by John Pepion on the cover.

Dawn Zinz’s work on the cover of Mid-American Review (42.1) is just so danged adorable with its mixture of digital collage using dried and pressed flowers – with more characters on the back that can’t help but make readers smile.

It’s wonderful to see another literary magazine reach its 50th year of publication, and to celebrate, the colorful work of artist Claire Desjardins greets readers on the cover of this special 2023 issue of Grain Magazine.

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