jubilat Is Going Out on High Notes

Editors of the long-standing Amherst literary journal, jubilat, announced last week that their final issue will be Spring 2021. "[I]t's 20 years old, which seems like a lifetime for a literary magazine," wrote Dara Wier, Caryl Pagel, and Emily Pettit about the closure on Twitter.

The journal "has been loved by many and it's been fortunate to have artists with vision, daring, strong spirit and unique character want to see their work in its pages." They then called for submissions.

An interview with British editor and scholar Lydia Wilson in the most recent issue of jubilat speaks to a unique editorial character as well. David Richardson and Wilson discussed "her recent project with the BBC: Word History, a three-part television series about the history of writing." More from Richardson on this endeavor:

As you might imagine, representing the whole history of writing is a massive undertaking at any scale, and trying to distill the history to only the most camera-ready moments is like trying to squeeze the entire Library of Alexandria into a single Manila folder. Perhaps our conversation will give some sense of this conundrum: We covered quite a range of topics, spanning the origins of the alphabet, the political implications of script reform within a national language, how many cows it took to print a page of the Bible in the Middle Ages, and the boredom inherent in the process of filming.

Find the full interview here. And as Bob Creeley would say: Onward!