Hello, readers!  Stay tuned over the next few weeks for highlights from our new issue. The winners and runners-up of our nonfiction and poetry contests will be writing about their pieces and more.

The long anticipated beauty of poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and art has arrived in So to Speak’s Spring 2012 Volume 21, No. 1 issue!

“Order in!” I shout that at least 50 times during a shift.

I never imagined a dream wedding when I was younger, and in fact, I didn’t really picture myself as the kind of girl to necessarily get married.

I was instantly seduced after hearing Julie Carr read at an off-site AWP event last winter.

I enjoy curling up with a poetry book on a quiet evening as much as the next gal, but sometimes I just really want the in-your-face performance politics of slam poetry.