Dual Coast Magazine closed to new submissions a while back, but nothing in the archive went anywhere. Two guides live here, and neither one is a poem or a story — those are shelved by genre in the categories above, and by name in the contributor index. These two are context. One is a shortlist: twelve poems we went back and read again, picked because they held up on a second pass, each linked straight to the piece and to its poet’s contributor page. The other answers a question that turns out to matter more than it sounds: what actually separates a literary magazine from a magazine that happens to print some poetry, and where an archive like this one fits into that difference. Read them in either order. Both are free, both stay up, and both were written for someone who has never spent real time with a journal like this before.
- Poems Worth Reading from the Dual Coast Archives — Twelve poems from the archive, picked for a second read, each linked to the poet’s full body of work here.
- What Is a Literary Magazine? — What separates a literary magazine from a magazine that publishes some poetry, and where a journal like this one fits.
