About This Issue

Fixed Forms (Loosely) is a collection of work in conversation with structure, tradition, and the rules we inherit before deciding what to do with them. These pieces take shape through invented forms, borrowed patterns, and other constraints, but none of them are especially interested in obedience for its own sake.

Form can be a container, a challenge, a game, or a pressure point. Sometimes the rules hold a piece together. Sometimes they bend. Sometimes they break exactly where the poem needs them to.This issue gathers writers who treat form as something alive rather than fixed in place, something to work within, against, around, or through. The result is a collection shaped by repetition, variation, pattern, interruption, and surprise. Together, these pieces ask what structure can make possible when we stop treating it as a cage and start treating it as a conversation.

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Nicky Bennett, Editor-in-Chief

Nicky Bennett is the Editor-in-Chief of Not Quite Right Literary Magazine. He is an American poet and essayist, currently based in New Jersey. His work primarily explores emotion, identity, and becoming. He has published several books of essays and poems, including his most recent work, “every feeling i could name.” Nicky earned an MFA from Rutgers University, and you can connect with him on Instagram @nicky.bennett.writes

Contributors

(Alphabetical by Last Name)

  • Rosalind Adams
  • Arielle Arbushites
  • Tamara-Lee Brereton-Karabetsos
  • Cypher
  • Amanda D’Avino
  • Peter Devonald
  • Natalia Gameson
  • John Grey
  • Sandra Beth Levy
  • Mara Lovelock
  • Alexandra R. Low
  • Klée Marsalis
  • Ash Mojica
  • Gaby Ortiz
  • Lauren Pobocik
  • T. R. Poulson
  • Marjorie Shelito
  • Amanda Trout

About Not Quite Right

Not Quite Right is a literary magazine dedicated to work that resists neat categorization—writing that exists in the in-between, the unresolved, the becoming. We’re especially interested in voices exploring identity, queerness, and the complexity of lived experience.

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