Long forms, we have come to appreciate anew your grand-scale grace, your unhurried pace, the way you are willing, like a guest at an Indian wedding, to dance in the street for days. Our overstuffed winter issue will hit the mail trucks next week, and we just filled our spring/summer number, which promises to be still more . . . hippoesque. NEA funding stretches only so far, however, so though we will continue to read—with an eye toward publication—the long forms submitted in recent weeks, we must close the category at the end of this month. Writers of amplitudinous poetry and prose: You still have one week left (12 a.m. EST January 31) to stagger us with your sumo-sized submissions. Bring them on!
