The first issue of Tab Journal uses a large tabloid format and bold black and red on white paper. This establishes the annual print issue as a material object that engages the reader actively in the experience of reading. Beginning with this first issue, Tab Journal experiments with and explores the intersections between form and content, object and space, and reader and reading.
Online issues follow the print issue each year. For volumes through 2018, Tab Journal used the Open Journal Systems platform, which presented issues in the form of PDFs that were both viewable on screen and downloadable. Here in the new Archives, the issues are available via live link to the web-based PDF and as a downloadable PDF.
While the online issues pick up design elements of the print issue, they are designed not to replicate print nor to quietly frame content but, rather, to use the platform to create a distinct reading experience. The content of Volume 1 (and subsequent volumes) has been updated for accessibility and moved to the WordPress.org platform you are experiencing as a reader now.
DREAMS AND VISIONS, CATARACTA VIRIDANS, PRAYER FOR CHOLERA, and ON KUMQUAT LIGHT
Karen An-hwei Lee
GOSSIP, A RED FOREST, and EMINENT DOMAIN
Stephanie Brown
BLUE DRESS, FAR AS THE EYE, NIGHT SWIMMERS, and DREAMS OF DROWNING
Nancy Kuhl
THE SUN and THE SUN (REVERSED)
Tony Barnstone
CALIFORNIA RON, THE CAREGIVER, and WINTER HEAT WAVE
Mark Jarman
TURNERESQUE, IF NANCY WERE A DE KOONING, TURBO NOIR
Richard Deming
GOLDILOCKS ZONE, CASANOVA AND THE APHRODITE OF THE MODERN WORLD, and FIELDS
Kate Gale
TORONTO, SAVING GOD, SAN ANTONIO
Linh Dinh
723
Kate Greenstreet
WAIL & SCREW, WHILE SHE WAS OUT STEALING, EMPATHY, and CRYPTOGRAM
Lynne Thompson
HUMAN RESOURCES, THE QUESTION OF SOLACE, STRUCK OUT LOOKING, and SONG OF THE INFIELD
Patty Seyburn
CONCREATE ABSTRACTIONS, OR A WAY OF (THINKING ABOUT) POEMS
Amy Newlove Schroeder
SLAP, A PRAYER BEFORE BIOPSY, and FOR ANNETTE: AN ELEGY
Allison Joseph
The content of our print issues is not available online in its entirety; this issue is still available and can be requested using the Contact form.
THE BALLROOM WITHIN and NOTICE (NULLIFICATION)
Hadara Bar-Nadav
IT IS NOT ALWAYS POSSIBLE TO FALL IN LOVE WITH BLACKBERRY SEASON and THE SHINING
Robin Behn
STILL LIFE IN PARK
Evie Shockley
LA GRANDE PERMISSION: JOHN ASHBERRY IN THE 21ST CENTURY
Marjorie Perloff
INVISIBLE CRANE and VERSION OF MYSELF IN THE RUINS
Mary Biddinger
NOCTURNE WITH A WAX MODEL OF MADAME DIMANCHE and NOCTURNE WITH NEEDLES PINNED IN BEAUTIFUL ROWS
Oliver de la Paz
MANZANA and BURBUJA (Spanish and English)
Jesse Lee Kercheval
“THE WORLD IS A FIELD OF THE SPANISH WAR”: TRAUMATIC MEMORY IN MURIEL RUKEYSER’S SPANISH CIVIL WAR POETRY
Patricia Grace King
TO KELLER FROM SKAMANIA LODGE
David Biespiel
USE OF OWNERSHIP and SPEED BOAT
Diane Glancy
RARE, YET TRUE, ENERGY TRANSFERS WITHOUT CONTACT and THE REALIST PAINTER IN EXILE DEVELOPS A LOVE OF GEOMETRY
Purvi Shah
BOOK REVIEW: The Palace of Contemplating Departure by Brynn Saito
Iris Law
BOOK REVIEW: And Never Mind the Storm by Soham Patel
Jon Pineda
EXCERPTS FROM “GOOD MORNING”
Hugh Behm-Steinberg
A MAZE LIVES INSIDE THE SKY
Erica Hayes
OUT OF THE BLUE, WHO
Laura McCollough
PHILLIP LARKIN AND THE POETRY OF SELF-DEFENSE
Jerry Bradley
WHAT COMES AFTER and TELL THEM THEY CAN’T COME BACK
Ruth Bavetta
OH LORD, MY MAN IS GONE and LOVE ME TOMORROW
Vida Cross
DOWNSTREAM
Susan Johnson
BOOK REVIEW: Tengine Empire by Cathy Park Hong
Jane Wong
IOWA
Patty Flint
THE LIGHT IN MURIEL RUKEYSER, A ROSE FROM DENISE LEVERTIV, and ANNE SEXTON’S TUNNEL (centos)
Kathleen Gunton
ILLUSIONS
Joseph Murphy
IF FROM GREAT NATURE, OUR OWN ABYSS
Andrew Ruzkowski
ACT I, SCENE I
Ronald Wallace
WHY I WALKED AWAY
Lauren Camp
BLUE FIELD
Stephen Campiglio
MODERN HUNGARIAN POETRY AS REFLECTED IN SÁNDOR KÁNYÁDI’S WORKS
Paul Sohar
BOOK REVIEW: Memory Cards by Susan Schultz
Margaret Rhee
EDITOR’S NOTE ON SPECIAL ISSUE
Anna Leahy
WHY I WRITE: THREE SNAPSHOTS and WHY I WRITE: POEM
Susan Johnson
WHY I WRITE POETRY
Kritin LaTour
BLAME
Jason McCall
WHIMSY AND DUTY (removed)
Kirk Nesset
EDITOR’S NOTE ON SPECIAL ISSUE
Anna Leahy
WHY I WRITE POETRY
Maureen Alsop
ON PAPER
Louise Cook
WHY POETRY? BECAUSE POETRY.
Ellen McGrath Smith
SOMEWHERE NEAR PAYNESVILLE, MAYBE
William Stobb
SORROW’S ARGUMENT and WHAT’S OF BIRDS
Kelli Allen
HAIKU, LATE SUMMER (A PRAYER) and BEFORE WE TRY “I LOVE YOU”
Karen Craigo
BOOK REVIEW: Deadbeat by Jay Baron Nicorvo
W. Todd Kaneko
BOOK REVIEW: Incarnadine by Mary Szybist
Sandra Lim
HYPOTHETICAL
Lanette Cadle
FOUR DRUNKENNESSES and WAYWARD
Richard Carr
HAIL MUSIC
Donald Illich
SAN BERDODO
Christopher Mulrooney