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America’s original poetry journal.

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“Every issue of POET LORE is inspiring, for it shows that the little-magazine tradition

has been alive and well since 1889, with the magazine’s founding.

(Even Walt Whitman wanted aboard.) I appreciate the skillful editorial steering of this ship and the crew’s loyalty to the

cause of assuring a literary legacy. Walt would be proud.”

–David Ray, poet and former editor of The ChiCago Review, epoCh,

and founding editor of New LeTTeRs

“POET LORE is a wonderful thing— a venue with a venerable tradition and a

cutting-edge presence. I’m grateful for the support the magazine showed me [when I was starting out], and for the forum it provides to

writers from across the spectrum now.” –D. Nurkse, former poet laureate of Brooklyn and human rights writer

“When I was growing up my father always had copies of POET LORE lying around the house or in his office. It was one of the first literary magazines I read and I have admired the poems I’ve found in its pages ever since.”

–Natasha Trethewey, current U.S. Poet Laureate

“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, poet, translator, and Rockefeller and National Endowment

for the Arts fellow

“POET LORE does what poetry journals are supposed to do: it gives new voices a place

to sing and old voices a place to harmonize.” –A.B. Spellman, poet, music critic,

and founding member of the Black Arts Movement

“POET LORE was the first magazine to ever publish my work way back when I was a college basketball player in South Carolina.”

–Terrance Hayes, poet, educator, and 2010 winner of the

National Book Award for Poetry

“I feel honored to have first published in POET LORE….As a young writer, I find it

especially encouraging to know that there are still great magazines providing opportunities

to those of us who are just breaking into the publishing scene.”

–Kimi Cunningham Grant, poet, writer, and winner of the Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg

Memorial Prize in Poetry

Editorial StaffExecutive Editors

Jody BolzE. Ethelbert Miller

Managing EditorGenevieve DeLeon

Review EditorJean Nordhaus

Translation EditorSuzanne Zweizig

Contributing EditorsCornelius EadyTony HoaglandDavid Lehman Alberto Ríos Jane Shore

David WagonerMichele Wolf

PublisherThe Writer’s Center, 4508 Walsh Street, Bethesda, MD 20815

Praise for Poet Lore

Submissions are accepted by mail year-round. We gratefully acknowledge support from the National Endowment for the Arts.

oet Lore is a biannual print journal of poetry, essays, and reviews. Book-length issues deliver news from the interior—poems that make concerns of our moment

both urgent and intimate. Published with the conviction that poetry provides a record of human experience as valuable as history, Poet Lore’s intended audience is

broadly inclusive.

Every submission reaches the journal’s editors, Jody Bolz and E. Ethelbert Miller; there are no “first readers.” Their mission, like that of Poet Lore’s founders, is discovery: a commitment to reading poem by poem without regard to reputation. After reviewing nearly 1,000 poems each month, they meet to make choices, reading work aloud, listening for what they haven’t heard before. The editorial exchange with poets often opens into an extensive correspondence.

Unlike most journals, Poet Lore welcomes long poems and sequences. In addition, it publishes portfolios of work by individual poets within its “Poets Introducing Poets” and “World Poets in Translation” features. Bolz and Miller draw upon their skills as poets to arrange each issue in a narrative arc. In this way, Poet Lore invites cover-to-cover reading, bringing diverse poems into conversation with one another.

Poet Lore’s reputation for discovery arises from this unique editorial culture: a commit-ment to considering each submission with care and engaging authors in a meaningful exchange. The goal is nothing less than offering its readers poems built to last.

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Walt Whitman was a subscriber who developed a special kinship with Poet Lore, corresponding with its editors and writing parting words to them upon their move from Philadelphia to Boston. He placed ads for Leaves of Grass in three successive issues in 1892, and Poet Lore included the proceedings of his funeral in its pages later that year.

In the November 1892 issue, editor Charlotte Porter characterized Emily Dickinson, whose work was widely misread at the time, as having “the quality of the bloodroot, delicate, passionate, but with a sting which sends the reader wiser away.” She described the poems as “terse aphoristic utterances, where truth is nested in subtle suggestion.”

When other publications lauded Paul Dunbar for a narrow subset of his work, Poet Lore’s editors understood his wider significance: in an 1897 issue, they called him the “spirit of the present” and “first poet of his race.” As Loyola University scholar Melissa Girard has written, Poet Lore didn’t shy away from foundational debates regarding race and modern poetry.

In its early decades, Poet Lore provided a forum for world theatre, showcasing entire plays—in translation—of such dramatists as Henrik Ibsen, August Strindberg, José Echegaray, and Anton Chekhov at a time when many American readers had never heard their names.

Poets Jody Bolz and E. Ethelbert Miller have edited Poet Lore since 2002, reading close to 1,000 poems each month without regard to reputation. This openness to new voices has led to their discovery of a number of exceptional younger poets, including Reginald Dwayne Betts, whose first poem they published in 2004 while he was in prison.

Poet Lore, the nation’s oldest poetry journal, will celebrate 125 years of publication throughout 2014. Founded in January 1889 by Charlotte Porter and Helen Clarke, two progressive young Shakespeare scholars who believed in the evolutionary nature of literature, Poet Lore has published world-famous poets and new writers side by side throughout its long history.

Porter and Clarke launched Poet Lore as a forum on “Shakespeare, Browning, and the Comparative Study of Literature” but soon sought out the original work of living writers—featuring more drama than poetry at first, and moving beyond North America and Europe to Asia, South America, and the Middle East.

Early issues of the magazine featured poetry by such lumi-naries as Rabindranath Tagore, Frederic Mistral, Charles Baudelaire, Rainer Maria Rilke, Stéphane Mallarmé, and Paul Verlaine. Poems by Sara Teasdale, Emma Lazarus, and many other women poets appeared in Poet Lore’s pages, including work by Harriet Monroe, who went on to establish Poetry magazine in 1912.

Porter and Clarke, who were life partners as well as co-editors, founded Poet Lore in Philadelphia but two years later moved to Boston, where the journal remained until 1976, when it was purchased by Heldref Publications in Washington, DC. For the past 25 years, Poet Lore has been a publication of The Writer’s Center, an independent literary non-profit in Bethesda, Maryland.

Poet Lore’s reputation for editorial quality and literary discovery persists. Many renowned contemporary American poets published their early work (sometimes their very first poems) in Poet Lore—Kim Addonizio, David Baker, John Balaban, Carolyn Forché, Alice Fulton, Dana Gioia, D. Nurkse, Sharon Olds, Mary Oliver, Carl Phillips, R.T. Smith, and Natasha Trethewey among them.

Five Discoveriesabout Poet LorePoet Lore Celebrates 125 Years in Print





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Submissions are accepted by mail year-round. We gratefully acknowledge support from the National Endowment for the Arts.

oet Lore is a biannual print journal of poetry, essays, and reviews. Book-length issues deliver news from the interior—poems that make concerns of our moment

both urgent and intimate. Published with the conviction that poetry provides a record of human experience as valuable as history, Poet Lore’s intended audience is

broadly inclusive.

Every submission reaches the journal’s editors, Jody Bolz and E. Ethelbert Miller; there are no “first readers.” Their mission, like that of Poet Lore’s founders, is discovery: a commitment to reading poem by poem without regard to reputation. After reviewing nearly 1,000 poems each month, they meet to make choices, reading work aloud, listening for what they haven’t heard before. The editorial exchange with poets often opens into an extensive correspondence.

Unlike most journals, Poet Lore welcomes long poems and sequences. In addition, it publishes portfolios of work by individual poets within its “Poets Introducing Poets” and “World Poets in Translation” features. Bolz and Miller draw upon their skills as poets to arrange each issue in a narrative arc. In this way, Poet Lore invites cover-to-cover reading, bringing diverse poems into conversation with one another.

Poet Lore’s reputation for discovery arises from this unique editorial culture: a commit-ment to considering each submission with care and engaging authors in a meaningful exchange. The goal is nothing less than offering its readers poems built to last.

12345

Walt Whitman was a subscriber who developed a special kinship with Poet Lore, corresponding with its editors and writing parting words to them upon their move from Philadelphia to Boston. He placed ads for Leaves of Grass in three successive issues in 1892, and Poet Lore included the proceedings of his funeral in its pages later that year.

In the November 1892 issue, editor Charlotte Porter characterized Emily Dickinson, whose work was widely misread at the time, as having “the quality of the bloodroot, delicate, passionate, but with a sting which sends the reader wiser away.” She described the poems as “terse aphoristic utterances, where truth is nested in subtle suggestion.”

When other publications lauded Paul Dunbar for a narrow subset of his work, Poet Lore’s editors understood his wider significance: in an 1897 issue, they called him the “spirit of the present” and “first poet of his race.” As Loyola University scholar Melissa Girard has written, Poet Lore didn’t shy away from foundational debates regarding race and modern poetry.

In its early decades, Poet Lore provided a forum for world theatre, showcasing entire plays—in translation—of such dramatists as Henrik Ibsen, August Strindberg, José Echegaray, and Anton Chekhov at a time when many American readers had never heard their names.

Poets Jody Bolz and E. Ethelbert Miller have edited Poet Lore since 2002, reading close to 1,000 poems each month without regard to reputation. This openness to new voices has led to their discovery of a number of exceptional younger poets, including Reginald Dwayne Betts, whose first poem they published in 2004 while he was in prison.

Poet Lore, the nation’s oldest poetry journal, will celebrate 125 years of publication throughout 2014. Founded in January 1889 by Charlotte Porter and Helen Clarke, two progressive young Shakespeare scholars who believed in the evolutionary nature of literature, Poet Lore has published world-famous poets and new writers side by side throughout its long history.

Porter and Clarke launched Poet Lore as a forum on “Shakespeare, Browning, and the Comparative Study of Literature” but soon sought out the original work of living writers—featuring more drama than poetry at first, and moving beyond North America and Europe to Asia, South America, and the Middle East.

Early issues of the magazine featured poetry by such lumi-naries as Rabindranath Tagore, Frederic Mistral, Charles Baudelaire, Rainer Maria Rilke, Stéphane Mallarmé, and Paul Verlaine. Poems by Sara Teasdale, Emma Lazarus, and many other women poets appeared in Poet Lore’s pages, including work by Harriet Monroe, who went on to establish Poetry magazine in 1912.

Porter and Clarke, who were life partners as well as co-editors, founded Poet Lore in Philadelphia but two years later moved to Boston, where the journal remained until 1976, when it was purchased by Heldref Publications in Washington, DC. For the past 25 years, Poet Lore has been a publication of The Writer’s Center, an independent literary non-profit in Bethesda, Maryland.

Poet Lore’s reputation for editorial quality and literary discovery persists. Many renowned contemporary American poets published their early work (sometimes their very first poems) in Poet Lore—Kim Addonizio, David Baker, John Balaban, Carolyn Forché, Alice Fulton, Dana Gioia, D. Nurkse, Sharon Olds, Mary Oliver, Carl Phillips, R.T. Smith, and Natasha Trethewey among them.

Five Discoveriesabout Poet LorePoet Lore Celebrates 125 Years in Print





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