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Poet Lore

About Poet Lore: Poet Lore publishes two 160-page issues each year, featuring a wide array of contemporary poets as well as essays on poetry and book reviews.

Publisher’s Description: Established in 1889, Poet Lore is the oldest continuously published poetry journal in the United States. Its founding editors, Helen A. Clarke and Charlotte Porter, set out to explore “Shakespeare, Browning, and the Comparative Study of Literature,” presenting in translation the original work of such luminaries as Tagore, Verlaine, Rilke, D'Annunzio, and Mistral as well as a wide array of English-language poets. In the past four decades, Poet Lore is proud to have published the earliest poems of such now-famous writers as Carolyn Forche, D. Nurkse, David Baker, Carl Phillips, Terrance Hayes, Kim Addonizio, and Dana Gioia. Each issue offers the work of some 60 distinctly gifted poets, as well as an essay on poetry and thoughtful reviews of significant new poetry books. Mindful of literary tradition and open to discovery, the editors of Poet Lore (Jody Bolz and E. Ethelbert Miller) look for poems that arrest the reader's attention and hold it—poems that demonstrate both craftsmanship and daring.

“Poet Lore has set the standard for poetry magazines in this country since 1889. There is none better. It is an honor to have appeared in its pages.” –Pablo Medina

Recent issues:

The Spring/Summer 2013 issue of Poet Lore opens with work by 20th-century Turkish poet Melih Cevdet Anday in translation by Sidney Wade and Efe Murad. In it, you’ll also find poems by Michael S. Harper, Rita Dove, Rachel Mennies, Thomas Hawks, Kate Angus, and many others. Our reviewers take on Ai's No Surrender, Michael Collier’s An Individual History, and dg nanouk okpik’s Corpse Whale, and Dallas Crow presents an essay on two prose poems.

The Fall/Winter 2012 issue features poems by Kwame Dawes, Carol Moldaw, Marge Piercy, and Marilyn Chin, among others. Also in these pages, we’re proud to present a blues-inspired sonnet sequence, “Coronagraphy,” by Samiya Bashir. And finally, among our “Essays & Reviews,” you’ll find Jeffrey Harrison’s essay on poetic argument and reviews of several new books.

The Spring/Summer 2012 issue features poetry by Josh Rathkamp, Anya Silve, Kurt Steinwand, James Scruton, Richard Robbins, Denise Duhamel, Dara Barnat, Richard Jones, Tresha Faye Haefner, Evie Frankl, Mary Kovaleski Byrnes, Bronwen Butter Newcott, Jeanne Emmons, Sharyn Skeeter, Sally Lipton Derringer, John Gery, John Bargowski, Sean M. Rumschik, Gary Fincke, Maria Terrone, Naomi Thiers, Brad Johnson, Mary-Sherman Willis, Maxine Kumin, Peter Kline, Laura Madeline Wiseman, Melissa Morphew, Afaa Michael Weaver, Robert Lunday, William Winston, Richard Robbins, Amorak Huey, Jodie Hollander, Vuong Quoc Vu, Amy Eisner, David Ray, and many more. Plus the translated poetry of Dan Turell (Denmark), essays, and reviews.

 

last updated 05/15/2013