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.
Witness is one of the absolutely very best literary magazines in America.
I am a particular fan of Witness s theme issues, which gain more ground on their subjects than most books do. The poems I read at the National Book Award ceremony first appeared in Witness . The writing in Witness , whether by well-known writers or by those emerging, is consistently rich, keenly intelligent, and unrelentingly honest. Witness is dynamic and full of surprises a magazine that truly bears witness to our complex and often bewildering issues. Witness is simply what it proclaims a witness to our ungainly evolution.