Silk Road

A literary microcosm of the known world. Silk Road offers writing that takes readers into locations--real or imagined, minute or vast, evolving or timeless.Each issue takes the reader beyond accepted assumptions about place.  Works include poetry, fiction, nonfiction, international writing, translations, and visual artwork.

Spring 2009

INTERVIEW: What do you get when you cross a zookeeper with a journalist, coming of age during the Nixon era? Between Panic and Desire, Dinty W. Moore's 2008 memoir and winner of the Grub Street National Book Prize. Read More...

Spring 2008

NEW ISSUE: Featuring work by Xu Xi and Pete Fromm as well as writers from Bangladesh to Escanaba and Michigan,the newest issue of Silk Road raises the stakes in cross cultural dialogue. "Where are you from?" has become a more complex question to answer. Read More...

INTERVIEW: Northwest American Novelist Pete Fromm talks about the work of writing, the advantage of "not waiting", and publication. Read his short story "Concentrate" in the new issue of Silk Road. Read More...

Spring 2007

NEW ISSUE: The Spring 2007 edition spans the world. Whether in the guise of translations,as with Deborah Krainin's translation of Victor E. Gonzales' poem "Mary Muerte," or in theme, as with Valerie Miner's fiction, set in Calcutta, India. Read More...

Spring 2006

NEW ISSUE: This inaugural issue of Silk Road is a literary adventure. Come along... Claire Davis witnesses a 64,000 acre burn in Idaho and poet Marvin Bell says events, not places make the poem. "I can't write honest poetry if I feel like a tourist about the setting," he says. Read More...