At the Best American Poetry blog, Daniel Nester takes readers on a brief tour through the online archives of Painted Bride Quarterly:

I think I realized just how small I was in PBQ’s history until I worked on the PBQ Archive, where we scanned each and every issue, made PDF files of them, and posted them all online.

With Richard Eoin Nash, later my publisher at Soft Skull Press, consulting us, and Thomas Israel Hopkins, a superfab fiction writer, manning the HTML wheels of steel, the Archive project was a modest attempt to share the history of PBQ with the world.

Rumor is that Daniel will be showing up around these parts next week.

HTMLGIANT asks its readers what topics they’d like to see addressed in a comprehensive resource for anyone looking to start a literary magazine.

A worthy endeavor, though the wording of the post seems to imply that any new lit magazine would include a print edition, which baffles me.

Update: See the comment from HTMLGIANT’s Roxane. The project is meant to include online-only journals as well. Sometimes I’m punchy in the mornings.

For all you poets and writers out there, only three days remain before AGNI’s summer hiatus begins on June 1st. If you plan to submit before the fall, do it now. (Unless you’re a subscriber, in which case you’re allowed to send submissions through snail mail throughout the year.)