To the editor:

I was delighted to read in the Jan. 30 Pulse section about Lawrence’s new journal of writing and the visual arts, “Parcel.” However, I was also disappointed that the article in which this good news appeared made no mention of Lawrence’s several other very fine writing journals.

Not only has the Kansas University English department been the home of the “Cottonwood Review” for many years, but Brian Daldorph of the English department has long been the editor of the well-established and internationally known and respected journal of fiction and poetry, “Coal City.” In addition, Gary Lechliter edits the very edgy “I-70,” and for three years, the Imagination & Place group has published an annual anthology devoted to a particular theme concerned with imagination and place.

That Lawrence, home of Langston Hughes and other writers, continues to encourage thoughtful and diverse creative writing is a cause for celebration.