Meridian, noun. 1.) A great circle on the Earth, passing from north to south, used to designate connection and continuity. 2.) Any of the pathways which energy flows through the human body.
Housed in Northeast Alabama, this independent journal’s mission is to bring together multiple academic fields and non-traditional voices in a place of sustained reflection and debate.
The North Meridian Review is an interdisciplinary journal of scholarship, culture, and the arts. Each issue is comprised of four broad sections. 1.) Peer reviewed scholarship in the fields of history, social sciences, and the humanities. 2.) Prose. 3.) Poetry. 4.) Book reviews.
The North Meridian Review.Current Issue: Volume 4, Issue 1 (2023)
Articles
Front Matter
North Meridian Review Staff
Introduction
Wesley R. Bishop
“Events in Palestine,” Art
Irina Tall
From the Editor’s Desk: Ceasefire Now! Free Palestine!
Wesley R. Bishop
Little Worries: Print Series
Sarah Ellis
Contributor Bios
North Meridian Review Staff
Prose
The Witness of Trees: Creative Essay
MariJean Wegert
Don Faggot: Fiction
Ricardo Quintana-Vallejo
Our Sacred Underground: Fiction
Marc Alexander Valle
Interview with Aubrey Grison: Disability, Art, and the Self
Aubrey Grison and Wesley R. Bishop
“When We Wear a Mask”: Public Blackness as Art
Adeyemi Doss
The Intruders: Cyber Bullying
Vivienne Rose
Ghazal for the Nightmare of History, For Admiral Peary: Arctic Explorer, Meteor Shower, November 18, 2001, not in Afghanistan
Benjamin Balthaser
A death of mourning & Towers of Babel
Manón Voice
Fight & Welcome to the Locked Unit
Faith Gómez
If Adam Picked the Apple & Wild
Danielle Coffyn
Chi Ku (吃苦)
Shan Shan Song
YOUR BIRTHDAY WAS LAST MONTH: A SONNET & DELICIOUS AMERICAN POEM SONNET FOR 21ST CENTURY LATE CAPITALISM
Kimberly Ann Southwick
Free at Sauta Cave
Carmine Di Biase
I Have a Cottage in the Country
(translated by Carmine Di Biase and Rashad Ahmed)
Abdul Aziz Al-Maqalih
Book Reviews
Morning in This Broken World
Stephanie Kendrick
Practicing Oral History with Military and War Veterans
Gordon E. Harvey
I Am a Wound Shrouded in Devotion
Christopher Heisserer