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"Quantity is worthless unless it disdains its container." Read Alleliah Nuguid's "Mukbang Ditych" from Issue 79: bayoumagazine.wordpress.com/mukbang-diptyc…

"I looked at the scenery, she read her magazine/ And the moon rose over an open field." Today in 1968, Simon & Garfunkel released Bookends, an album of poetry in music if there ever was one. (Image: Wikipedia)

Reminder: Our Issue 79 launch party is this Sunday, April 6, at Beanlandia. Come celebrate this top-notch issue with good food, good drinks, and good company.

“The words were living things to her. She sensed them bestriding the air and charging the room with strong colors.” Happy birthday to novelist Paule Marshall, born today in 1929 in Brooklyn, New York.

We just released a new issue, but there's a wonderful, rich archive of 78 back issues as well. Find 'em here: bayoumagazine.wordpress.com/issues/

"Get me some liquor, the man spoke into his pillow." Read Khanh Ha's "Night, This River," in Bayou Issue 75. bayoumagazine.wordpress.com/night-this-riv…

For many of us, summer is the time to get some solid writing done. What's your summer writing plan? (Image: Pexels)

"I generally see the kernel of a story in a flash of something that catches my eye, in one compelling image." Read our interview with Minrose Gwin from the archives. bayoumagazine.wordpress.com/interview-with…

What's the best new work you've read so far in 2025? Give us your recs.

"I would always rather be happy than dignified.” Happy Birthday to Charlotte Brontë, born today in 1816.

New books released today: Morgan Jenkins' "Zeal," and "On Muscle" by Bonnie Tsui. What April book releases are you excited about?

"When a language is no longer understood, an essential and inimitable way of seeing the world, of interacting with it, disappears too." LitHub on the importance of preserving languages from extinction: lithub.com/on-the-vital-i…

"Papa Bois, horned shepherd of the forest, reel me in as a carp to your ungulate grasp." Read Joel Harris's "Metamorphosis" from our current issue:bayoumagazine.wordpress.com/metamorphosis/

“let’s pour the night / into our stone water jars / this song isn’t red flowers / crushed under silence.” Happy birthday to poet Yusef Komunyakaa. (Image: Wikipedia)

April is nearly over. All the more reason to check out the best book covers of the month, per LitHub: lithub.com/the-15-best-bo…

If you need to add some titles to your summer reading, here's the whole list of "lucky torchbearers in the arts and letters categories." lithub.com/here-are-the-2…

There's a long tradition of ekphrastic poetry. But there are also people out there writing ekphrastic fiction, especially of the flash variety: floatingcircle-rwa.org/2022/10/14/the…

Kazuo Ishiguro drafted "A Pale View of Hills," in his 20s, before he even realized he was a novelist. The film adaptation premieres at Cannes this week. Here's The Guardian's interview with Ishiguro on the book's backstory: theguardian.com/film/2025/may/…

"It seemed to me a kind of magic to take a made thing and make it almost unrecognizably new." Chase Berggrun on creating erasure poems: poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine…

Banu Mushtaq's "Heart Lamp," just won the International Booker Prize. Fiction writers know the punchline here: it's the first time a short story collection has won the prize. theguardian.com/books/2025/may…