Curbside Splendor Issue 1: Spring 2011

The debut of Curbside Splendor's semi-annual print journal - Issue 1 - featuring short stories, poems, and or photography by James James Greer, Ben Tanzer, Timothy Gager, Lara Konesky, Ryan Werner, Yovani Flores, Brandon Jennings, Michael San Filippo, Garett Holden, Farah Ghuznavi, Martini Harkert, Anthony Ilacqua, Frankie Metro, Isabel Kestner, Deadbeat Poet, Sondra Morin, Ally Malinenko, Sharanya Manivannan, Eirik Gumney, Karolina Faber, and Gabriel Hurier. This collection features work we've published online, and some new pieces never published before.

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We publish work set primarily in urban (and sometimes sub-urban) settings. In this issue you'll find work set in the gutters, the streets, Onida, Bangladesh, India, and the battlefields of Iraq.

ISSN 2159-9475, ISBN 978-0-9834228-0-8

5" x 8", perfect-bound paperback, 162 pages long.

Designed by Karolina Faber.

Edited by Victor David Giron and Stephanie Waite Witherspoon.

Photography by Garett Holden, Michael San Filippo, Eirik Gumney, and Karolina Faber.

Cover based on photograph by Michael San Filippo.

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Blurbs / Praise:

"Everything in this issue begs to have the reader understand what it means to share stories (tragedies or successes) with people that are close to us. They also show how strangers can influence our lives. That's what being an urbanite is all about, lives intersecting other lives. The casualness of the issue gleams what all of us are looking for: meaning in the obvious, the routine, and the fascination in the behavior of people. Curbside Splendor focuses on appreciating the substance of what it means to be urban." - Another Chicago Magazine (ACM).  Read full review:  ACM Digs Curbside

"May I be blunt? I love Curbside Splendor.  I have almost despaired of university literary journals – I can feel the boredom of the great plains and the drudgery of academic work through every line. Where did the art of engagement go?   Curbside is refreshingly free of political correctness and the strictures academic hot house. It's even run by people with day jobs in the real world -- imagine that!  'Curb' stories, poems, and short shorts are punchy, direct, often hyperbolic – reflecting the mind-set and communication style of city life." - Christina Gombar, acclaimed author and editor.