About FORMA

FORMA contemplates ancient ideas for contemporary people, both online and in print. Whether we’re reviewing a new mystery novel, sharing new original poetry, or publishing critical essays, we’re trying to determine what classical thought can offer modern mankind. We’re looking back, even if the past seems backward. We publish original essays, reviews, interviews, and poetry. And we’re hunting miscellany, seeking out the sorts of things that book-lovers love.


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Online Content

Each week we publish reviews, essays, and interviews online. Subscribe today to get our original content delivered directly to your inbox.

Print Content

Our beautiful print magazine goes out twice a year. We use only high-quality paper stock and the magazine is full-color with plenty of beautiful photographs and illustrations to go along with essays, reviews, and interviews you won’t find anywhere else.

If you are a subscriber, click here to access our complete print-edition archive.


Contribute

If you're interested in contributing to FORMA (print or online) please email our team via FORMAmag@circeinstitute.com. If submitting an essay or review please put the subject of your piece in the subject line of your email. If submitting poetry please email 1-3 poems. Please include a cover page. We pay $50/poem accepted for the print issue and $15/poem accepted for The FORMA Review (online). There is currently no charge to submit.


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Advertise

Thanks for your interest in advertising in FORMA. We have options in both our print magazine and our online review. Just shoot us an email and our guy, Brandon LeBlanc, will be in touch. His email is brandon@circeinstitute.com


Our team

Editor-in-chief - David Kern
Managing editor - Heidi White
Associate editor (reviews) - Sean Johnson
Associate editor (subscriber content) - Emily Andrews
Poetry editor - Christine Perrin
Senior editors - James Cain, Matt Bianco
Copy editor - Emily Dunnan
Associate editors - Ian Andrews, Noah Perrin

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People

Classical teacher and administrator, Close Reads co-host, Amateur
John Wilson edited Books & Culture (1995-2016). He writes regularly for First Things and a range of other magazines. He is a contributing editor at the Englewood Review of Books and senior editor at Marginalia Review of Books.
James Matthew Wilson's most recent book of poems is The Strangeness of the Good (Angelico, 2022). He directs the MFA program in creative writing at the University of Saint Thomas, Houston
Fletcher Jones Chair of Great Books at Pepperdine University Author of The Scandal of Holiness
freelance writer, baker, gardener, board game enthusiast
Teacher, editor, podcaster, and author. Specializes in Classical Education, literature, and the Christian imagination.
Regular Contributor (philosophy, theology)
Associate Editor
“Until I feared to lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.”
Poet and theologian living in Washington State.
Sophist. De-activist. Avid indoorsman.