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The American Poetry Review
1700 Sansom St, Suite 800
Philadelphia, PA 19103-5214
Phone: 215-496-0439
Email: dbonanno <at> aprweb <dot> org
Web: www.aprweb.org
Simultaneous submissions: no Email submissions: no Reading period: year-round Response time: 3 months Payment: yes Contests: yes (see website) Average pages: 56 Sample copy (postpaid): $4.50 U.S.A.; $5.50 Canada; $10 International ISSN: 0360-3709 Founded: 1972 Issues per year: 6 Distributors: Ingram, Ubiquity, Media Solutions, Armadillo Copy Price: $4.50 U.S.A.; $5.50 Canada Subscription: $23/year U.S.A.; $34/year International
Publisher’s Description: The American Poetry Review is unique in American publishing. With eclectic editing, a newsprint/tabloid format, and a circulation of 10,000, APR reaches a worldwide audience six times a year with some of the very best of contemporary poetry, essays, interviews, columns, and translations. Over the past 37 years, APR has helped to make poetry a more public art form without compromising the art of poetry.
Authors featured in recent issues include Kazim Ali, Robin Becker, Allen Ginsberg, Robert Hass, Brenda Hillman, Tony Hoagland, Claudia Keelan, Yusef Komunyakaa, Dana Levin, Tom Lux, W.S. Merwin, Sharon Olds, Robert Pinsky, Gerald Stern.
"The American Poetry Review began a revolution in poetry
comparable only to that begun by Harriet Monroe's Poetry
in 1912. Sharing the vision of Walt Whitman, it has brought the
spirit of excellence and democracy to poetry, through the directness
of a tabloid newspaper, to the largest poetry audience ever gathered
in America."
—Patricia Willis, Rosenbach Museum & Library
Recent issues:
Volume 39 Number 2, March/April 2010, features Jean Valentine, Matthew Lippman, Stephen Dunn, Robert Bly, Celia Bland, David Wojahn, Norman Dubie, Joanna Goodman, Katherine McCord, F.D. Reeve, Laura McCullough, Christopher Buckley, Major Jackson, Jack DeWitt, Jason Schneiderman, Jessica Fisher, Matt Donovan, Ryan Vine, Joe-Anne McLaughlin, Marlys West, and Laurence Lieberman.
Volume 39 Number 1, Jan/Feb 2010, features Mary Ruefle, James Schuyler, Laurence Lieberman, Elaine Bleakney, Bridget Carson, Teresa Leo, Edward Hirsch, Claudia Keelan, Michael McGriff, Hayden Carruth, Gillian Conoley, Jennifer Grotz, Maxine Kumin, C. K. Williams, Curtis Bauer, Peter Jay Shippy, Idra Novey, Dante Micheaux, Mark Hillringhouse, and more.
Volume 38 Number 6, Nov/Dec 2009, features Robin Becker, Stanley Plumly, John Felstiner, Daisy Fried, Terrance Hayes, Dara Wier, William Carlos Williams, Christian C. Thompson, Robert Lowell, Louis McKee, Colin Cheney, Alan Williamson, Elaine Equi, Tom Clark, Juan Antonio González-Iglesias, Joelle Biele, Sophie Cabot Black.