The Fall 2020 issue of The Fourth River, at this week’s Mag Stand, explores the future with fiction by Soramimi Hanarejima and A. Molotkov; nonfiction by Rachel Busse and Pamela Herron; and poetry by Stacey Balkun, John Belk, Reilly D. Cox, Caleb Coy, Tricia Knoll, Holly Painter, Josephine Pino, Shannon Quinn, Joyce Schmid, Laura-Gray Street, and Ami Whittemore.
Fourth River
The Fourth River: A Journal of Nature & Place
Published by the MFA program in creative writing at Chatham University, Fourth River is an online and print journal focusing on nature and place-based writing. They publish “works that are richly situated at the confluence of place, space, and identity.”
Fourth River takes its name from a subterranean river beneath Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, a city at the confluence of three rivers. The unseen fourth river is indispensable to the city’s ecosystem. “The journal grew up from the “idea that between and beneath the visible framework of the human world and built environment, there exist deeper currents of force and meaning supporting the very structure of that world”
They publish one print issue and one online issue a year. Check out the Fall 2020 online issue, “Futures,” and don’t forget to stop by their listing on NewPages to learn more about them.