Verb: An Audioquarterly, Volume 1, No. 1

Fiction, poetry, and music come together to create something new:
Verb. Original stories and poems you won't find anywhere else, by the best writers in the country, brought to you in an innovative format.
Verb is the ancient oral tradition and the venerable literary magazine combined into a fresh new package: the audioquarterly.

Our inaugural issue features many of the top writers in the country. We're proud to include a 13,000 word excerpt from an unpublished novel by Pulitzer Prize-winner Robert Olen Butler and a new recording of the seldom-seen story "In Broad Daylight", by National Book Award-winner Ha Jin. The issue also features an unreleased recording from the late James Dickey, and a new short story from Edgar-winner Tom Franklin. We have the great writer and poet Stuart Dybek making his singing debut and new poetry from Thomas Lux, one of the best poets in the country. Finally, we round it off with six new poems from South Carolina's Poet Laureate, Marjory Wentworth. All of that wrapped up with a ghost from the 19th century, Walt Whitman.