Reed Magazine is a literary journal

Literary magazine

A literary magazine is a periodical devoted to literature in a broad sense. Literary magazines usually publish short stories, poetry and essays along with literary criticism, book reviews, biographical profiles of authors, interviews and letters...

 published by San Jose State University

San José State University

San Jose State University is a public university located in San Jose, California, United States...

. Two semesters of the Department of English and Comparative Literature's 133 class solicit, edit, and promote the magazine for each year. It is one of the oldest literary journals based west of the Mississippi River.

The journal prints art

Art

Art is the product or process of deliberately arranging items in a way that influences and affects one or more of the senses, emotions, and intellect....

, poetry

Poetry

Poetry is a form of literary art in which language is used for its aesthetic and evocative qualities in addition to, or in lieu of, its apparent meaning...

, and prose (fiction

Fiction

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 and nonfiction). It also sponsors the Edwin Markham Prize for Poetry and the John Steinbeck Award for Fiction.

History

Reed Magazine was called The Quill in the 1920s and El Portal in the 1930s. Reed Magazine was first numbered by year and volume in 1948 as The Reed. At that time, the magazine was put together by SJSU's literary society, Pegasus, with help from the Associated Student Body. The name of The Reed was derived from a quote by Blaise Pascal

Blaise Pascal

Blaise Pascal , was a French mathematician, physicist, inventor, writer and Catholic philosopher. He was a child prodigy who was educated by his father, a tax collector in Rouen...

:

Man is but a reed,
the most feeble thing in nature;
but he is a thinking reed.
The entire universe need not arm itself to crush him.
All our dignity consists in thought.
By it we elevate ourselves,
and not by space and time which we can never fill.

Notable contributors

• Carol Abate
• Stephen Dixon
• Jim Barbeau
• Merritt Clifton
• Sara Budrick
• Patrick Marks
• Laura Cherry
• Samuel Maio
• Patricia Martin

• Mary Tupper
• Jacob M. Appel
  Jacob M. Appel
  Jacob M. Appel is an American author, bioethicist and social critic. He is best known for his short stories, his work as a playwright, and his writing in the fields of reproductive ethics, organ donation, neuroethics and euthanasia....
  
  
• Carol Arnold
• Renato Escudero
• Vanessa Farnsworth
• Pierre Hauser
• Blackie Lugo
• Margaret Paterson
• Linda Kay Boring

• Mark Bussman
• K.G. Clark
• Cory Doctorow
  Cory Doctorow
  Cory Efram Doctorow is a Canadian-British blogger, journalist, and science fiction author who serves as co-editor of the blog Boing Boing. He is an activist in favour of liberalising copyright laws and a proponent of the Creative Commons organization, using some of their licences for his books...
  
  
• Joyce Davies
• Joyce Carol Oates
  Joyce Carol Oates
  Joyce Carol Oates is an American author. Oates published her first book in 1963 and has since published over fifty novels, as well as many volumes of short stories, poetry, and nonfiction...
  
  
• Michael Ernest Sweet
  Michael Ernest Sweet
  Michael Ernest Sweet is a Canadian educator, writer and non-profit executive.Michael Sweet holds a bachelor in independent studies from St. Mary's University, a bachelor of education from Nipissing University's Schulich School of Education and a master of arts in educational philosophy from...
  
  
• Gordon E. Pelton
• Geoffrey Wright
• Paul Calandrino

External links

• Reed Magazine
• San Jose State University Web Site