Salamander Reading and 25th Anniversary Celebration
Please join Salamander for a 25th Anniversary Celebration and Reading Thursday, March 1, 2018 6-8 pm Suffolk University Poetry Center Mildred F. Sawyer Library, 3rd Floor 73 Tremont Street,…
Poet Jane Hirshfield to read at Suffolk on Feb 7, 7 p.m.
A great opportunity to hear West Coast poet Jane Hirshfield read in Boston. She will read at Suffolk University's Blue Sky Lounge & Commons in Sargent Hall, 5th floor. Sargent…
Welcome to the new issue!
We hope you enjoy the new issue now and over the next months as much as we've enjoyed putting it together. Watch this space in the next weeks, as some…
David Ferry Reading Monday, Nov 6, 7 p.m. Suffolk Poetry Center
The Suffolk English Department is happy to present David Ferry reading his new translation of Virgil's Aeneid, just out from University of Chicago Press. We hope you can join us…
Jennifer Franklin on the writing of her poem “Eurydice’s Revelation” in Salamander #44
I loved visiting the Metropolitan Museum with my family when I was a young girl. Shortly after I moved to NYC for graduate school, I began writing in the museum…
Salamander in O.Henry Prize Stories, Best American Short Stories
Salamander is so proud to have contributors featured in both the O.Henry Prize Stories and The Best American Short Stories 2017! Congratulations to Sonya Larson, whose story "Gabe Dove" (Salamander…
Holly Guran, Wendy Drexler, Susan Donnelly: Suffolk Poetry Center Reading on October 4, 7 p.m.
Please join us for a poetry reading featuring Susan Donnelly, Wendy Drexler, and Holly Guran reading new and recent work, on Wednesday, October 4, 7 p.m., at the Suffolk University…
Salamander Fiction Contest Winners
Cady Vishniac is the winner of the 2017 Salamander Fiction Contest with her story "Girls Girls Girls," and Jared Lipof is the second-place winner with his story "Mastermind." Of the winning stories,…
Salamander Fiction Contest 2017 Results
Winner Cady Vishniac, "Girls Girls Girls" Honorable Mention Jared Lipof, "Mastermind" Finalists Michael Mark, "A Good Man" Laura Farnsworth, "Carlsbad" Tom Howard, "Scarecrows" Neha Chaudhary-Kamdar, "Seventeen Things About My Friend…
Emily Tuszynska on the writing of her poem “Firstborn” in Salamander #44
Our oldest child came at the tail end of a snowstorm so large even my OB was snowed in and unable to reach the hospital in time for his birth.…
Anne Champion on the writing of her poem “We Can’t Breathe” (in Salamander #44)
In 2014, I went on a peace delegation to Palestine where I witnessed the choke-hold of military occupation, and it fundamentally changed how I looked at my privilege--it was no…
Salamander and Suffolk at the 2017 Massachusetts Poetry Festival
Salamander and Suffolk University faculty will be participating in the 2017 Massachusetts Poetry Festival in Salem, Massachusetts, on May 5-7. Find us at these events: Small Press and…