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Founded in 1995 in New York City, and named for the seven authors who committed to a home with a fiercely independent spirit, Seven Stories Press publishes works of the imagination and political titles by voices of conscience. While most widely known for its books on politics, human rights, and social and economic justice, Seven Stories continues to champion literature, with a list encompassing both innovative debut novels and National Book Award-winning poetry collections, as well as prose and poetry translations from the French, Spanish, German, Swedish, Italian, Greek, Polish, Korean, Vietnamese, Russian, and Arabic.

It's hard to go past the placeholder text that our webmaster originally put here. "This is information about the magazine. We are this old. We are this awesome." If we elaborate a little though, Going Down Swinging is a curious beast. Founded in 1980 by broke writers Kevin Brophy and Myron Lysenko, and employing a Hall of Fame of different editors along the way, we've spent the last 31 years helping broke writers publish other broke writers. Along the way we've developed a reputation as Australia's most innovative and idiosyncratic literary journal. Brophy and Lysenko's original components of fiction, essay and poetry have long sat side by side with the audio and the visual. The only Australian journal to regularly publish spoken word CDs along with each print edition, we also publish full-colour graphic novellas, and commission performance pieces to send on tour. In 2011 the evolution continues, with our first all-digital edition. This is much more than simply putting a paper journal online. GDS #31 is an all-new publication, featuring video, audio, fiction, photography, poetry, and visual art, disparate forms talking to each other in a way that could never be done in print. Smartphones and e-readers mean the journal will be available to anyone with an internet connection. Which is good, because it means GDS can keep bringing you the best artists you've never heard of.

Salt's origins date back to 1990 when poet John Kinsella launched Salt Magazine in Western Australia. The journal rapidly developed an international reputation as a leading publisher of new poetry and poetics.

Australian poetry and poetics

"JOHANNA DRUCKER Joint Professor with Department of Information Studies Johanna Drucker is the Breslauer Professor of Bibliographical Studies in the Department of Information Studies. She is internationally known for her work in the history of graphic design, typography, experimental poetry, fine art, and digital humanities. In addition, she has a reputation as a book artist, and her limited edition works are in special collections and libraries worldwide. Her most recent titles include SpecLab: Digital Aesthetics and Speculative Computing (Chicago, 2009), and Graphic Design History: A Critical Guide (Pearson, 2008). She is currently working on a database memoire, ALL, and the online Museum of Writing in collaboration with University College London and King's College. Email: drucker@gseis.ucla.edu"

"Atlas brings together a collection of empirical, symbolic, and critical texts from many academic disciplines-history, political science, art criticism, theory of criticism, literature, visual poetry, and verse-as well as a number of texts which were manifestos in their time. The point of this mass of fields is to create an autonomous space for reflection and the imagination so that it is possible, in the emancipatory movement from primary, objectivist, and engaged thinking, to proceed to activity. It offers themes for criticism, destruction, reflection, intellectual shifts, or imaginative conjunctions."