Help a good magazine get born

Words Without Borders, the nice folks who have let me blog about African literature (mostly) on their website for the last two years, publish an online magazine and an increasingly impressive line of anthologies. I was lucky enough to attend a benefit reading from one of these, The Ecco Anthology of International Poetry.

The next issue of Words Without Borders will cover contemporary writing from Afghanistan. As this is the country where we’ve been fighting a war for almost a decade (remember?) it’s well worth knowing more about, and if WWB’s track record is any indication, they will do a great job.

To help make it happen, visit WWB’s Kickstarter page. Even a $10 pledge will get you a Words Without Borders shot glass, and WWB’s undying gratitude.

P.S. Attentive readers will note that I thought at first that WWB was raising money for an Afghanistan anthology. Nope, it’s a new issue of the Words Without Borders magazine, and equally deserving of support.