The Late-Night Review: Jellyfish Magazine

Hello and welcome to The Late-Night review, a short review of a literary journal written past midnight! (applause)

Subject of this night’s review is issue 13 of Jellyfish Magazine (http://www.jellyfishmagazine.org/index.html)

The front-page of the site (what you get if you click the above link] is just the logo. You it to go to most recent issue. In this case, that’s Issue #13, which has 13 poems in it of varying length, style, and content.

Jellyfish’s aesthetic is very simple. The front page of the site and of issue 13 have a bit of a…”Denim” look. No, really, that’s the first word that comers to mind. This aesthetic is missing from the poem pages, but it’s not a severe detraction. The layout and setup of the pages appear to be focused on online use, making

I don’t like that they give list of authors at issue index instead of the poems from that entry or even a list of said poems. Personally, I would’ve had a list of authors or poems on the front “issue” page, but with the poems below the list so you could simply scroll through them. It’d feel a bit more like an actual magazine that way in my opinion.

It’s nice that they let you look at former “issues” though. I didn’t look at them too much, instead wanting to focus my review on the most recent issue, however it appears the aesthetic changed between “issues” 12 and 13 at least — it’s quite possible it changed between other issues also, just not between 11 and 12.

So yes, that was tonight’s Late-Night Report. Tune in next week forrrrrrrrrrrrrthis won’t be happening again if I can bloody help it.

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