Hyphenate is a new online magazine of literature, art, and ideas that seeks to meld the power of the web with the aes­thet­ics of print.

We believe that pages should be just that—pages, that is, things with bottom margins and fi­nite di­men­sions. Writ­ing is strength­en­ed by bound­aries; bound­aries force us to be more pre­cise and de­lib­er­ate.

But we also believe in link­ing (hy­phens, af­ter all, are link­ers), be­lieve that mag­a­zines are made strong­er by col­lecting and juxtaposing works of different genres, philosophies, and approaches. We seek work that reaches out—toward other genres, toward the boundaries of its own genre, or toward a diverse and novel audience: fiction that fascinates people who prefer nonfiction, jour­nal­ism that uses the rhythms of poetry, art that comments on the news of today or yesteryear, poems that link the lyric with L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E—anything that stretches a limb, E.T.-like, to connect with something (or someone) similar yet strange.