the blueshift journal

EDITOR'S NOTE

 

Issue V starts off the only way it could.  

 

“Don’t panic.”

 

As you may not know, this issue signifies many things at Blueshift.  For instance, today is our official two-year anniversary.  Two years since we jumped into the community pool of literary magazines with barely a name in mind, & look how far you’ve taken us.

 

We must also acknowledge the hard work of sixteen staff members who will be leaving us, including my incredible co-founders & friends, Lily Rockefeller & Claire Carroll.  I cannot tell you how grateful I am for all of their work, & though I am sad to see each & every one of you go, I know you will continue to inspire wherever you go.

 

As Tiana Clark writes, “I rose out of the water, a caught fish—slippery,/gaping for breath, brand new with righteousness.”  A new year has begun in earnest.  The air is brimming, perhaps not with righteousness, but at least with purpose.  Today, we enter our biggest hiring period since Issue I.  New website, new faces, new direction.  I’m excited.  Are you?

 

As for this issue, I can do it no justice in summary.  All I can say is read, & read closely.  Shift in your seat, shudder, whisper at nights their inevitable words.  

 

Most of all, enjoy, enjoy, enjoy.

 

“                   [… ]         Our body                         is here to prove

migration—is a kind of magic.             Of course they are afraid

of all who possess it; when it has returned to us—the WORLD.”

—Jess X Chen, Hunger Drives The Body Into Imagination

 

Tyler Tsay

Managing Editor / Current Editor in Chief

August 15, 2016

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