| Discipline | literary magazine |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Edited by | Kathleen Volk Miller and Marion Wrenn |
| Publication details | |
| History | 1973 to present |
| Publisher | Painted Bride Quarterly, Inc. (United States) |
| Frequency | Quarterly |
| Standard abbreviations | |
| ISO 4 | Paint. Bride Q. |
| Indexing | |
| ISSN | 0362-7969 |
| Links | |
The Painted Bride Quarterly, also known informally as PBQ, is a Philadelphia-based literary magazine. It was established in 1973 by Louise Simons and R. Daniel Evans in connection with the Painted Bride Art Center, an art gallery founded in 1969 in an old bridal shop on South Street in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The journal is supported by Drexel University in Philadelphia. It is staffed by a mix of volunteer editors and changing student staff. The magazine is published quarterly online and yearly in print. The magazine, which sees itself as "literary forum for poetry, fiction, prose, essays, interviews and photography", has a dual-city editorial staff in Philadelphia and New York. PBQ has featured works by such poets as Charles Bukowski, Etheridge Knight, Sonia Sanchez, Amiri Baraka, Dede Wilson, Simon Perchik, Yusef Komunyakaa, Gregory Pardlo, and Major Jackson, among others.
PBQ is the only magazine of its longevity to have a complete archive of its history available online.