The Spring 2023 edition of Boulevard is now available: pick up a copy!

All three contest winners, a craft interview with Danielle Dutton, a symposium on appropriation in art, fiction by Joyce Carol Oates and David Nikki Crouse, nonfiction by Amy Mevorach and Jess Smith, poetry by Weijia Pan and Abbie Kiefer, and much more.

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Cult or Commune

by Michael Kaplan

Bust

by Tim Raymond

Class Couple

by E. Hearne

My Dog Would Like A Word

by Zen Ren

Featured

Free Weights

by Kristen-Paige Madonia

The Sniper's Rifle

by Jess Smith

Dark Birds, Dark Nights

by Rebecca Owen

dear bear that left its scat by my back door

by Doug Ramspeck

that summer

by Doug Ramspeck

nonfiction

fiction/nonfiction/poetry

The Sniper's Rifle

by Jess Smith

Dark Birds, Dark Nights

by Rebecca Owen

A Pearl, A Thumb, A Fish

by Amy Mevorach

Symposium, Spring 2023

In art, where is the line between appropriation and a thoughtful, meaningful usage of preexisting art? To what extent does copyright offer protections for creators, and when does it inhibit creativity?

Accepting Sorry

by Heather Donovan

Chinese Checkers

by Adrian Acu

The Inferno on Prime Time: Reflections on Vince McMahon and the WWE

by Marcus Spiegel

Facing My Assailants

by Marianne Abel-Lipschutz

On the Deliverance of Dance (the most perishable of the arts) from Death to Immortal Life

by K. B. Merritt

This Is Not a Love Letter to a Movie

by Brandi Nicole Martin

Boulevard Craft Interview: Joyce Carol Oates

The Dissonance of a Taser in a Dining Room

by Barbara Haas

En Route

by Stephen Benz

Boulevard Craft Interview: Tom Scharpling

Wabash River Blues

by Jessica Weatherford

Poisoned

by Anne Kenner

Craft Interview: Emily St. John Mandel

Six Articles for Survival

by Laura Joyce-Hubbard

The King's Game

by Jonathan Wei

Goat Yoga in the Park

by Salman Bhatti

Troubled Water: A Dying Lake in Cambodia

by Abby Seiff

Against Lachesis

by Jodie Noel Vinson

Citizen Mussels

by Geoff Martin

A Thing About Cancer

by Clinton Crockett Peters

Craft Interview: Nathan Englander

by Ryan Krull

Catch-22: John Mayer’s Battle Studies, Army Lt. Col. Grossman, and a US Marine

by Brandon Parker

Just Desserts at the Peninsula

by Min Han

Augury

by Jodi Varon

Interview: Beth Dooley

by J. Ryan Stradal

What Goes Undelivered

by Christine Spillson

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About Us

Now available in print and online, Boulevard is a biannual literary magazine publishing contemporary fiction, essays, interviews, and poetry.
Based in St. Louis, Missouri. Read internationally. Established in 1985.

Our online subscription offers online access to all the fine work from the most recent issue in addition to an expanding archive of previous issues and other exclusive content.

fiction

fiction/nonfiction/poetry

Free Weights

by Kristen-Paige Madonia

Begins the Theremin

by Brad Eddy

Mick & Minn

by Joyce Carol Oates

The Devil in the Throat

by David Nikki Crouse

Cracks

by Alexandra Munck

My Little Pet

by Sommer Schafer

Eating Mango Whole

by Stephanie Mullings

Halliday

by Willie Fitzgerald

Jorie, Jr.

by Michael Czyzniejewski

The Family of the Bethlehem Carpenter

by Julian Zabalbeascoa

Resurrection Man

by Elizabeth Stix

Becoming Claire

by Kelly Ann Jacobson

The Suicide

by Joyce Carol Oates

Apocalypse is a Contronym

by Liwen Xu

Starter

by Melissa Chadburn

Repertorio

by Seth Bockley

The Grand Finale

by Angela Ma

Bottle

by Roy Parvin

Obscure Trivia of the Antarctic

by A. J. Bermudez

Safe Room

by Andrew Porter

Baby's First Lu'au

by Megan Kakimoto

Defriending

by Giles Harvey

Two Hundred Kinds of Poison

by David Crouse

Burning House

by Lance Larsen

Magnolia Knoll

by Josh Rolnick

House Call

by Carol Ghiglieri

Whiskey Nose

by Michael Czyzniejewski

Night on K-san

by Adam Roux

Direct Sunlight

by Christine Sneed

Homing Spoons

by Sena Moon

natural bridge

Natural Bridge is an online-exclusive feature published through a collaboration with the Master of Fine Arts in creative writing program at the University of Missouri–St. Louis.

natural bridge online