Witness is an excellent magazine. In its pages, writers, as people, speak to readers more honestly, directly, and personally, than in any magazine. Witness is the best and the safest mind-expanding drug I know. One of the pleasures of publishing in Witness is being part of a chorus of myriad voices, each with its own very different take on the same general subject. The magazine never lacks in daring, passion, and, a word I rarely use, verve.
Witness does theme issues better than anyone.
The quality of the work never suffers due to the limitations of theme. Instead, the intensity of the poems, stories, essays, seems heightened by their placement among other pieces on a similar subject. I love to see how the voices play off of each other. In an era when too many journals seem merely lukewarm, Witness turns up the heat. This is a focused, passionate journal, one that matters.