Welcome to the online home of Place/Time! A new literary project, Place/Time will publish poetry, short stories, and creative non-fiction on an annual basis, arranging the works chosen thematically by some specific place and time. Ideally, Place/Time will provide work that captures the atmosphere of place and time in a collection that can be turned to in the future to evoke their sense. While some of this evocation should be indirect, special attention will be paid to works that deal with actual events and places. The design and production of each issue will, similarly, aim to evoke an environment not necessarily familiar to the reader. This may include using the same production techniques as a magazine from that time would have used.
Issue One focused on the Boston, MA, USA area in 1997 and 1897. Our contemporary authors included Beth Baniszewski, Michael T. Fournier, George Helene Lox, Cassandra Phillips-Sears, and Postrodent. From 1897, we reprinted poems by E. S. Blake and Edwin Arlington Robinson, and the 19th century equivalent of a Twitter feed by an anonymous editor of the Boston Globe. You can enjoy the full text of the issue online in 1997 standard HTML 4.0 transitional, as well as our web exclusive full photoessay on the industrial district of Somerville by Postrodent.
The physical edition of Issue One, produced in a limited run of 100 copies, was laser-printed and hand bound by Fox and the Lion Press. Copies are available for $10 US with free shipping by Media Mail in the continental US. Please contact us at orders@placetime.org to get a copy, or just click the button below!
Submissions are currently closed; we have not yet chosen a place and time for the next issue. If you have ideas, please let us know!