Sunset Liminal vol. 3: Spring 2016

Sunset Liminal is the flagship literary magazine of Sunset Liminal Press, founded in 2014 by three spirited friends based on their belief in the ultimate importance of literature, specifically literature that marries personal, raw emotions with finely tuned adherence to craft in ways that show a human touch of spirit enmeshed in a base of intellect and canonical intertextuality. Twice a year, Sunset Liminal seeks and publishes the most transcendental and soul uttering poetry and prose that it can find. We seek work that is true and beautiful and which comes from the fringes of our physical world, work that in tone and mood (not necessarily in subject) aims to communicate that which is otherwise wordlessly understandable in the only plane in which man can communicate with the gods. Our newest Spring issue features the sublime poetical talents of Matt Babcock, Carl Boon, Craig Evenson, George Freek, Brandon Hall, J. Ryan Hibbett, Christos Kallis, Brendan Raleigh, and Leah Stenson along with the liminal storytelling of Joe Baumann, Brendan Raleigh, and Allison Whittenberg. From prose editor Candise Henson: "The narratives you will find in this issue speak to one another. They swell with a sense of urgency and yet are helplessly pinioned, desperate to escape a moment, a dream journal, a memory, a lifestyle. They are wings under domes, claustrophobic and monotonous. For this reason, they are truly human stories—pure, raw, real—ready to be bitten and savored, and so with the blessings of the authors and the assistance of my fellow staff members, I offer them to you."