The spring 2026 edition of Boulevard is now available: pick up a copy!

Nonfiction Contest winner Mohammad Hakima, Poetry Contest winner Rachel Stempel, a craft interview with Aria Aber, fiction by David Nikki Crouse, a symposium on the function of silence in art, and much more.

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Nikola

by Yulia Zepp

Our lives are hard to know

by Maya Muir

Animal Games

by David Williamson

Boulevard Craft Interview: Chelsea T. Hicks

by Daniel J. Musgrave

Featured

Manhunt

by Claressinka Anderson

The Vacantlands

by Phillip Barcio

Saints of Missouri

by Cole Chamberlain

Cathedral

by Colby Cotton

we would rather be away from the body

by Carrie Beyer

nonfiction

fiction/nonfiction/poetry

The Vacantlands

by Phillip Barcio

A Critical Conversation with Moten and Glissant

by Brandi Ocasio

Lamps at High Noon, St. Louis’s Philip Roth, and the Writers’ Strike

by Devin Thomas O’Shea

Fort Bragg: A Love Letter and an Elegy

by Damieka Thomas

Transition to Morningness

by Riley Rockford

Frisson

by Madeline Jones

My First Homes

by Demetrius Buckley

Boulevard Craft Interview: Gus Moreno

Diving into the Dark

by Susan Sugai

68091

by Gabriel Rogers

Close to the Real

by John Dalton

Surf Lessons

by Michael Bishop

The Sniper's Rifle

by Jess Smith

Dark Birds, Dark Nights

by Rebecca Owen

A Pearl, A Thumb, A Fish

by Amy Mevorach

Symposium, Spring 2023

In art, where is the line between appropriation and a thoughtful, meaningful usage of preexisting art? To what extent does copyright offer protections for creators, and when does it inhibit creativity?

Boulevard Craft Interview: Danielle Dutton

by Griffin Reed, Managing Editor

The Devil's Balls

by Lee Anne Gallaway-Mitchell

Accepting Sorry

by Heather Donovan

Chinese Checkers

by Adrian Acu

The Inferno on Prime Time: Reflections on Vince McMahon and the WWE

by Marcus Spiegel

Facing My Assailants

by Marianne Abel-Lipschutz

On the Deliverance of Dance (the most perishable of the arts) from Death to Immortal Life

by K. B. Merritt

This Is Not a Love Letter to a Movie

by Brandi Nicole Martin

Boulevard Craft Interview: Joyce Carol Oates

The Dissonance of a Taser in a Dining Room

by Barbara Haas

En Route

by Stephen Benz

Boulevard Craft Interview: Tom Scharpling

Wabash River Blues

by Jessica Weatherford

Poisoned

by Anne Kenner

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About Us

Now available in print and online, Boulevard is a biannual literary magazine publishing contemporary fiction, essays, interviews, and poetry.
Based in St. Louis, Missouri. Read internationally. Established in 1985.

Our online subscription offers online access to all the fine work from the most recent issue in addition to an expanding archive of previous issues and other exclusive content.

fiction

fiction/nonfiction/poetry

Saints of Missouri

by Cole Chamberlain

The Disenfranchised

by Jude Whiley

Paradiso

by Anthony Yarbrough

El Esfuerzo

by Emerson Henry

Such Lush, Lyrical Prose

by Zehra Nabi

Mercury in Retrograde

by Roy Parvin

Night Watch

by Mathew Goldberg

Barrio Inglés

by Joshua Allen Griffith

Butcher

by Joyce Carol Oates

Minor Repairs to Smile Dragon

by Nick Otte

The Reach

by Trent Lewin

Free Weights

by Kristen-Paige Madonia

Begins the Theremin

by Brad Eddy

Mick & Minn

by Joyce Carol Oates

Romance Language

by Lacy Arnett Mayberry

The Devil in the Throat

by David Nikki Crouse

Cracks

by Alexandra Munck

My Little Pet

by Sommer Schafer

Eating Mango Whole

by Stephanie Mullings

Halliday

by Willie Fitzgerald

Jorie, Jr.

by Michael Czyzniejewski

The Family of the Bethlehem Carpenter

by Julian Zabalbeascoa

Resurrection Man

by Elizabeth Stix

Becoming Claire

by Kelly Ann Jacobson

The Suicide

by Joyce Carol Oates

Apocalypse is a Contronym

by Liwen Xu

Starter

by Melissa Chadburn

Repertorio

by Seth Bockley

The Grand Finale

by Angela Ma

Bottle

by Roy Parvin

natural bridge

Natural Bridge is an online-exclusive feature published through a collaboration with the Master of Fine Arts in creative writing program at the University of Missouri–St. Louis.

natural bridge online