14 July 2025
July we’ve been on the road. We, my home family, spent the entirety of the July Fourth week in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. On Thursday we will drive down to Jacksonville, Florida, and then St. Simons, Georgia, for a …
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To Our Readers
14 May 2025
We’re back and rested from the AWP whirlwind. About AWP what can I say? It tickles me to think the provenance for AWP is Walt Whitman’s barbaric yawp. In the final section of “Song of Myself,” Whitman …
Gerald Maa is a writer, translator, and editor based in Athens, GA. His poetry and translations have appeared in places such as Poetry, American Poetry Review, and Push Open the Window: Contemporary Poetry from China (Copper Canyon, 2011). His essays have appeared in places such as Criticism, Studies in Romanticism, A Sense of Regard: Essays on Poetry and Race (University of Georgia, 2015), and The Little Magazine in Contemporary America (University of Chicago, 2015). Work from his practice of activated writing have been performed and mounted in Los Angeles, New York, and Sweden. In 2010, he founded The Asian American Literary Review with Lawrence-Minh Bùi Davis, where he served as editor-in-chief until starting his job at The Georgia Review in August 2019.
To Our Readers
29 January 2025
Happy lunar new year. Happy year of the snake.
“He understands the power of books, but doesn’t appreciate literature!” my friend Fish exclaimed. This was some summer in the early 2010s at Fish’s house in the rural …
Gerald Maa is a writer, translator, and editor based in Athens, GA. His poetry and translations have appeared in places such as Poetry, American Poetry Review, and Push Open the Window: Contemporary Poetry from China (Copper Canyon, 2011). His essays have appeared in places such as Criticism, Studies in Romanticism, A Sense of Regard: Essays on Poetry and Race (University of Georgia, 2015), and The Little Magazine in Contemporary America (University of Chicago, 2015). Work from his practice of activated writing have been performed and mounted in Los Angeles, New York, and Sweden. In 2010, he founded The Asian American Literary Review with Lawrence-Minh Bùi Davis, where he served as editor-in-chief until starting his job at The Georgia Review in August 2019.
To Our Readers
22 November 2024
For my editing and publishing students, I am always seeking accounts of what it means to build a life and career in publications. In an interview last year on the podcast Print is Dead (Long Live Print!)…
Gerald Maa is a writer, translator, and editor based in Athens, GA. His poetry and translations have appeared in places such as Poetry, American Poetry Review, and Push Open the Window: Contemporary Poetry from China (Copper Canyon, 2011). His essays have appeared in places such as Criticism, Studies in Romanticism, A Sense of Regard: Essays on Poetry and Race (University of Georgia, 2015), and The Little Magazine in Contemporary America (University of Chicago, 2015). Work from his practice of activated writing have been performed and mounted in Los Angeles, New York, and Sweden. In 2010, he founded The Asian American Literary Review with Lawrence-Minh Bùi Davis, where he served as editor-in-chief until starting his job at The Georgia Review in August 2019.
To Our Readers
18 July 2024
I’m starting this at the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, in my hotel room, at five am, having already been up for over an hour. Apparently, 1) I get jet lag even when I drive, and 2) my two-year-old’s …
Gerald Maa is a writer, translator, and editor based in Athens, GA. His poetry and translations have appeared in places such as Poetry, American Poetry Review, and Push Open the Window: Contemporary Poetry from China (Copper Canyon, 2011). His essays have appeared in places such as Criticism, Studies in Romanticism, A Sense of Regard: Essays on Poetry and Race (University of Georgia, 2015), and The Little Magazine in Contemporary America (University of Chicago, 2015). Work from his practice of activated writing have been performed and mounted in Los Angeles, New York, and Sweden. In 2010, he founded The Asian American Literary Review with Lawrence-Minh Bùi Davis, where he served as editor-in-chief until starting his job at The Georgia Review in August 2019.
To Our Readers
8 May 2024
Last week, we had yet another great event here in Athens, Georgia. Xinyue Huang and Hanif Abdurraqib read at our storied music venue, the 40 Watt, to a house packed by locals and out-of-towners. Avid Bookshop was …
Gerald Maa is a writer, translator, and editor based in Athens, GA. His poetry and translations have appeared in places such as Poetry, American Poetry Review, and Push Open the Window: Contemporary Poetry from China (Copper Canyon, 2011). His essays have appeared in places such as Criticism, Studies in Romanticism, A Sense of Regard: Essays on Poetry and Race (University of Georgia, 2015), and The Little Magazine in Contemporary America (University of Chicago, 2015). Work from his practice of activated writing have been performed and mounted in Los Angeles, New York, and Sweden. In 2010, he founded The Asian American Literary Review with Lawrence-Minh Bùi Davis, where he served as editor-in-chief until starting his job at The Georgia Review in August 2019.
To Our Readers
1 February 2024
By the time this issue leaves the printer, the writer Alexander Chee will have come to give the Betty Jean Craige lecture, hosted by the comparative literature department at UGA. I am very excited about the visit, …
Gerald Maa is a writer, translator, and editor based in Athens, GA. His poetry and translations have appeared in places such as Poetry, American Poetry Review, and Push Open the Window: Contemporary Poetry from China (Copper Canyon, 2011). His essays have appeared in places such as Criticism, Studies in Romanticism, A Sense of Regard: Essays on Poetry and Race (University of Georgia, 2015), and The Little Magazine in Contemporary America (University of Chicago, 2015). Work from his practice of activated writing have been performed and mounted in Los Angeles, New York, and Sweden. In 2010, he founded The Asian American Literary Review with Lawrence-Minh Bùi Davis, where he served as editor-in-chief until starting his job at The Georgia Review in August 2019.
To Our Readers
15 November 2023
This past year I’ve been thinking a lot about the fact that most—all, the polemicist would assert—of the major stylistic interventions of the twenty-first century driving the book world now are born out of literary periodicals. McSweeney’s, …
Gerald Maa is a writer, translator, and editor based in Athens, GA. His poetry and translations have appeared in places such as Poetry, American Poetry Review, and Push Open the Window: Contemporary Poetry from China (Copper Canyon, 2011). His essays have appeared in places such as Criticism, Studies in Romanticism, A Sense of Regard: Essays on Poetry and Race (University of Georgia, 2015), and The Little Magazine in Contemporary America (University of Chicago, 2015). Work from his practice of activated writing have been performed and mounted in Los Angeles, New York, and Sweden. In 2010, he founded The Asian American Literary Review with Lawrence-Minh Bùi Davis, where he served as editor-in-chief until starting his job at The Georgia Review in August 2019.
To Our Readers
8 August 2023
In our letter correspondence, a friend and I had a brief back-and-forth about the function of criticism, particularly about how the current economic world—in academia and book reviewing, specifically—is uncoupling the function of criticism from traditional professional …
Gerald Maa is a writer, translator, and editor based in Athens, GA. His poetry and translations have appeared in places such as Poetry, American Poetry Review, and Push Open the Window: Contemporary Poetry from China (Copper Canyon, 2011). His essays have appeared in places such as Criticism, Studies in Romanticism, A Sense of Regard: Essays on Poetry and Race (University of Georgia, 2015), and The Little Magazine in Contemporary America (University of Chicago, 2015). Work from his practice of activated writing have been performed and mounted in Los Angeles, New York, and Sweden. In 2010, he founded The Asian American Literary Review with Lawrence-Minh Bùi Davis, where he served as editor-in-chief until starting his job at The Georgia Review in August 2019.