Jai Alai Magazine

Jai-Alai Magazine published poetry, fiction, essays, and black & white drawings. The magazine began in 2011 with Issue #10 and ended with Issue #1 in 2021.

Jai-Alai's series of interlinking covers were designed by Inah Mercedes, Jenni Perri, and Juliana Urrego, with the loss of a bar each issue reflecting the magazine's process of planned disappearance.

Issues #10 - 2 were assembled through a combination of solicitation and physical submissions. Jai Alai kept two original, artist-made submission boxes at Books & Books Coral Gables (Made by Gavin Perry) and at Sweat Records in Little Haiti (Made by Autumn Casey). Having open submissions available only to those who were physically inside Miami was designed to enforce a locality to the magazine.

For Issue #1, Caroline Cabrera collected a group of poets who wrote poems "after" poems by students in O, Miami's education program. To reflect this change in structure, as well as the fact that the issue arrived after a five year gap, Topos Graphics reimagined the cover while still retaining the system.

Issue #10 - 8 editor: P. Scott Cunningham
Issues #7 - 2 editor: J.V. Portela
Issue #1 editor: Caroline Cabrera

Contributors

#10 (Spring 2011)
Matthew Abess, Sebastian Abella, Kevin Arrow, Janet Batet, Traci Brimhall, Ernesto Burgos, Denise Delgado, John Espinosa, Matthew Gajewski, Frank Giampietro, Michael Hettich, Davy Knittle, Dave Landsberger, Rachel Lord, Wesley Morris, Orly Orbach, Cecilia Pavón, Andrés Rivero, F. Daniel Rzicznek, Ed Skoog, Jay Snodgrass, Kevin Young, Matthew Zapruder

#9 (Spring 2012)
Peg Boyers, Jenny Brillhart, Felicia Chizuko Carlisle, Jessica Chrastil, Anna Deeny, Matthew Dickman, Jim Drain, Victoria Newton Ford, Matthew Gajewski, Forrest Gander, J. David Gonzalez, Ben Greenman, Tom Healy, Siri Kusch, Adrian Matejka, Jill McDonough, Gilbert Wesley Purdy, Roger Reeves, Sandra Santana, Victor Santiago, Kyle Trowbridge, Odalis Valdieso, Sam Winston, Raúl Zurita

#8 (Spring 2013)
Frank Báez, Malachi Black, Melissa Broder, Yolanda Castaño, Mark DeCarteret, Matthew Gajewski, Katherine M. Hedeen, Christopher Louvet, Zyanya Mariana, Colleen Newcomb, Víctor Rodríguez Núñez, Yaddyra Peralta, Parker Phillips, Jessica Rivo, Curtis Perdue, Gregory Sherl, Brian Spears, Christos Tsaimis, Nick Vagnoni

#7 (Fall 2013)
Daniel Borzutzky, Humberto José Castello, Natalie Catasús, Eduardo Chirinos, Virgilio Colón, Yosie Crespo, Arlo Haskell, Jesús Alberto Díaz Heranández, Jen Hofer, Donald Justice, Kirenia Legón Lopez, Virginia Lucas, Randy Lee Maitland, Jr., Benjamín Eliézer Morales Moreno, Myriam Moscona, G.J. Racz, Chloe Garcia Roberts, Li Shangyin, Rowan Sharp, David Shook, Alexander Sorondo, Phillip Thompson, Yolyanko William Argüelles Trujillo, Connie Mae Oliver, Stacey Waite

#6 (Spring 2014)
Annik Adey-Babinski, Joaquín Badajoz, Flower Conroy, Yosie Crespo, Denise Duhamel, Ariel Francisco, Jen Hofer, Legna Rodríguez Iglesias, José Kozer, Francisco Larios, Patricia Lockwood, Nadra Mabrouk, Rob MacDonald, Campbell McGrath, Elena Medel, Marcia Mogro, Ellene Glenn Moore, Diego Mud, Guadalupe Muro, Carol Peters, Cherry Pickman, Claudia La Rocco, Leigh Stein, Doc Suds, Juan Carlos Valls, Julie Marie Wade

#5 (Fall 2014)
Annik Adey-Babinski, Frank Báez, Madeleine Barnes,, Charles Baudelaire, Kacee Belcher, Damian Caudill, Pablo De Cuba Soria, Jim Daniels, Ximena Gómez, Rob Goyanes, Nicolás Guillén Batista, Carlie Hoffman, Dave Landsberger, Mia Leonin, Achy Obejas, Sean Parkinson, Catherine Pond, Sandra Simonds, Bianca Stone, Fabienne Sylvia Josaphat

#4 (Spring 2015)
Alberto Acerete, Stephanie Benhaim, Ana María Caballero, Franny Choi, William Corbett, Michael Díaz Feito, Lleny Díaz Validivia, Kristin Dykestra, Nancy Gates Madsen, Xatherin Lizette González, María Elena Hernández Caballero, Campbell McGrath, Laurel Nakanishi, Omar Pimienta, Carlos Pintado, John Pluecker, Reina María Rodríguez, Legna Rodríguez Iglesias, Nicole Salcedo, Zachary Schomburg, Sarah Trudgeon, Ocean Vuong

#3 (Fall 2015)
Andre Bagoo, Lissa Batista, Cindy Becerra, Jaswinder Bolina, Daniel Borzutsky, Scott Brennan, Julien Brogard, Erik Campbell, Aelana Curran, Neil de la Flor, Ariel Francisco, Michael Hettich, Ming Holden, Ian Honoré, Conceição Lima, Michael Angel Martin, Maria Martinez-Cañas, Jillian Mayer, Justin Phillip Reed, José Luis Rico, Sara Ryan, Maureen Seaton, David Shook, Quinn Smith, Stephanie Strickland, Juan Soros

#2 (Spring 2016)
Jessie Vail Aufiery, Joaquín Badajoz, Jan Becker, Elena Boils, CAConrad, Rio Cortez, Yosie Crespo, B. Isabel Crombet, Oscar Cruz, Angel Cuadra, Edau, Frankétienne, Emily Kendal Frey, Georges, heather hughes, Legna Rodríguez Iglesias, Ashley M. Jones, Jay Leeming, José Ramón Sánchez Leyva, Jessica Machado, Lucian Mattison, Michael McGriff, Marcelo Morales, Emily O’Neill, Eddie Perrote, Carlos Pintado, Alicia Jo Rabins, David Shook, Olivia Taylor Smith, Lisa Russ Spaar, Soleida Ríos, Anastasia Savinova, Farah Diba Yamini

#1 (Spring 2021)
Hanif Abdurraqib, Gabrielle Alexis, Frank Báez, Lillian-Yvonne Bertram, Jaswinder Bolina, Mahogany L. Browne, Adam Clay, Rio Cortez, Marissa Davis, Joanne Diaz, Denise Duhamel, Stefanie Fernández, Ross Gay, Matthea Harvey, Juan Felipe Herrera, Legna Rodríguez Iglesias, Fabienne Josaphat, RE Katz, Nabila Lovelace, Nate Marshall, Campbell McGrath, José Olivarez, Matthew Olzmann, Yaddyra Peralta, Roger Reeves, Alison C. Rollins, Clint Smith, Gale Marie Thompson, Julie Marie Wade, Kevin Young, and Rachel Zucker, with students from Emerson, Orchard Villa, Holmes, Coconut Grove, Morningside K-8, and Poinciana Park elementary schools.