Editor
Keith Newton
Contributing editor & website production
Mike Newton
Editors at large
Jessica Baran & Eugene Lim
Harp & Altar is a journal of writing and ideas based in Brooklyn, New York, and St. Louis, Missouri. Founded by Keith Newton in 2006, Harp & Altar ran for ten issues until 2013. Starting in 2022, the journal has been revived with the same editorial mission to publish innovative writing and emerging writers. The new Harp & Altar website was created by contributing editor Mike Newton, based on Andrew Ackermann’s original design. The first ten issues are now housed at archive.harpandaltar.com.
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"The poet is of no party." BaudelaireOur manifesto is an act of substantiation.
We reject all forms of futilitarianism, in whatever disguise.
We believe that comedy is the song of the village and tragedy the song of the goat.
We believe what is written in the books, but now we want to see for ourselves.
The single idea, beating on the same doors in vain.
The analogue and the invention.
The death cell.
The first permission.
Though we watch the stage for things to happen, though our minds wander.
By ourselves in the green field, playing our diversion.
Though the story begins with the loss of a home.
Out of the machine, we shift restlessly in our seats.