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Hampden-Sydney Poetry Review

Simultaneous submissions: yes Email submissions: no Reading period: year-round Response time: 1-6 months Payment: copies Contests: no ISSN: 0190-6135 Founded: 1975 Issues per year: one Average pages: 115 Copy price: $7 Sample price (postpaid): $7 Subscription (individuals) 1 year: $7 Subscription (institutions) 1 year: $14

Publisher’s description: For over thirty years, the Hampden-Sydney Poetry Review has been publishing the work of both emerging poets and the nation’s (and the world’s) best known poets. From our quiet corner of rural southside Virginia, we’ve printed poetry, interviews and essays by Louis Simpson, James Dickey, Mark Strand, X.J. Kennedy, David Ignatow, Molly Peacock, Josephine Jacobsen, Marvin Bell, Gregory Orr and many others. We also have a long tradition of publishing poetry in translation – publishing, among others, poems by Jaroslav Seifert (for the first time in the US), Miklos Radnoti, Yves Bonnefoy, and Vicente Huidobro in past and recent issues

The review is published at Hampden-Sydney College, located in Hampden-Sydney, Virginia and was founded here in the early 1970s by poets Tom O’Grady and Michael Egan. The magazine is published once a year and invites submissions of poetry and poetry in translation. Please see our website for more information and guidelines.

Recent issues:

This year's issue (36, Winter 2010) of the HSPR features poems by Norman Dubie, Todd Boss, Lisa Jarnot, John Haines and many others.  We are also happy to present another installment of our 4x4 feature, with contributions from Debra Kang Dean, Jaime Brunton, D.A. Powell, and Christopher Howell.

The Winter 2009 issue of The Hampden-Sydney Poetry Review features new poems by Robert Wrigley, Carl Phillips, Regan Good, Maurice Manning, Kate Daniels, Lawrence Raab, the acclaimed Scottish poet John Burnside, and many others. We are also proud to inaugurate what will become a regular feature in the journal, an essay/interview hybrid called 4x4. Four contributors respond at length to four questions posed by the journal; this year’s respondents are Regan Good, Lawrence Raab, Dan O’Brien, and John Burnside.