Ai • Kim Addonizio • Melih Cevdet Anday • David Baker • John Balaban Samiya Bashir • Charles Baudelaire • R. Dwayne Betts • Charlotte Brontë Anton Chekhov • Martha Collins • Gabriele D'Annunzio • Philip Dacey • Jim Daniels • Kwame Dawes • Matthew Dickman • Rita Dove Denise Duhamel • Cornelius Eady • José Echegaray • Patricia Fargnoli Carolyn Forché • Ford Madox Ford • Paul Fort • Anatole France Stuart Friebert • Alice Fulton • Sandra M. Gilbert • Dana Gioia Michael Harper • Jeffrey Harrison • Terrance Hayes • Hermann Hesse Tony Hoagland • Henrik Ibsen • Colette Inez • Honorée Jeffers Praise for Editorial Staff Poet Lore Executive Editors Review Editor Contributing Editors “Every issue of POET LORE is inspiring, “POET LORE has set the standard for poetry Jody Bolz Jean Nordhaus Cornelius Eady for it shows that the little-magazine tradition magazines in this country since 1889. E. Ethelbert Miller Tony Hoagland has been alive and well since 1889, There is none better. Translation Editor David Lehman with the magazine’s founding. It is an honor to have appeared in its pages.” Managing Editor Suzanne Zweizig Alberto Ríos Jane Shore (Even Walt Whitman wanted aboard.) –Pablo Medina, poet, translator, Genevieve DeLeon I appreciate the skillful editorial steering and Rockefeller and National Endowment David Wagoner for the Arts fellow of this ship and the crew’s loyalty to the Michele Wolf cause of assuring a literary legacy. Publisher “POET LORE does what poetry journals are Walt would be proud.” The Writer’s Center, 4508 Walsh Street, Bethesda, MD 20815 supposed to do: it gives new voices a place –David Ray, poet and former editor of The ChiCago Review, epoCh, to sing and old voices a place to harmonize.” Ted Kooser • Maxine Kumin • Emma Lazarus • Nathaniel Mackey and founding editor of New LeTTeRs –A.B. Spellman, poet, music critic, Stéphane Mallarmé • Pablo Medina • William Meredith and founding member of Frederic Mistral Gabriela Mistral Nancy Morejón David Mura the Black Arts Movement • • • “POET LORE is a wonderful thing— Howard Nemerov • D. Nurkse • Naomi Shihab Nye • dj nanouk okpik Sharon Olds Mary Oliver Linda Pastan Carl Phillips a venue with a venerable tradition and a “POET LORE was the first magazine to • • • Marge Piercy David Ray cutting-edge presence. I’m grateful for the ever publish my work way back when I was a • Christopher Presfield • Alexander Pushkin • Liam Rector Rainer Maria Rilke Arthur Rimbaud support the magazine showed me [when I was college basketball player in South Carolina.” • • starting out], and for the forum it provides to Alberto Ríos • Sherod Santos • Jane Shore • R.T. Smith –Terrance Hayes, poet, educator, writers from across the spectrum now.” and 2010 winner of the August Strindberg • Virgil Suárez • John Synge –D. Nurkse, former poet laureate of National Book Award for Poetry Rabindranath Tagore • Sara Teasdale • Dan Turèll • Paul Verlaine Ai • Kim Addonizio • Melih Cevdet Anday • David Baker • John Balaban Brooklyn and human rights writer David Wagoner • Ronald Wallace • Bruce Weigl • Oscar Wilde Samiya Bashir • Charles Baudelaire • R. Dwayne Betts • Charlotte Brontë “I feel honored to have first published in Ai • Kim AddonizioAmerica’s • Melih Cevdetoriginal Anday poetry • David journal. Baker • John Balaban Anton Chekhov • Martha Collins • Gabriele D'Annunzio • Philip Dacey • “When I was growing up my father always POET LORE….As a young writer, I find it Samiya Bashir • Charles Baudelaire • R. Dwayne Betts • Charlotte Brontë Jim Daniels • Kwame Dawes • Matthew Dickman • Rita Dove had copies of POET LORE lying around the especially encouraging to know that there are Anton Chekhov • Martha Collins • Gabriele D’Annunzio • Philip Dacey • Denise Duhamel • Cornelius Eady • José Echegaray • Patricia Fargnoli house or in his office. It was one of the first still great magazines providing opportunities Jim Daniels • Kwame Dawes • Matthew Dickman • Rita Dove Carolyn Forché • Ford Madox Ford • Paul Fort • Anatole France literary magazines I read and I have admired to those of us who are just breaking into Denise Duhamel • Cornelius Eady • José Echegaray • Patricia Fargnoli Stuart Friebert • Alice Fulton • Sandra M. Gilbert • Dana Gioia the poems I’ve found in its pages ever since.” the publishing scene.” Carolyn Forché • Ford Madox Ford • Paul Fort • Anatole France Michael Harper • Jeffrey Harrison • Terrance Hayes • Hermann Hesse –Natasha Trethewey, –Kimi Cunningham Grant, poet, writer, and Stuart Friebert • Alice Fulton • Sandra M. Gilbert • Dana Gioia Tony Hoagland • Henrik Ibsen • Colette Inez • Honorée Jeffers current U.S. Poet Laureate winner of the Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Michael Harper • poetlore.comJeffrey Harrison • Terrance Hayes • Hermann Hesse Ted Kooser • Maxine Kumin • Emma Lazarus • Nathaniel Mackey Memorial Prize in Poetry Tony Hoagland • Henrik Ibsen • Colette Inez • Honorée Jeffers Stéphane Mallarmé • Pablo Medina • William Meredith Ted Kooser • Maxine Kumin • Emma Lazarus • Nathaniel Mackey Frederic Mistral • Gabriela Mistral • Nancy Morejón • David Mura Stéphane Mallarmé • Pablo Medina • William Meredith Howard Nemerov • D. Nurkse • Naomi Shihab Nye • dj nanouk okpik Poet Lore Celebrates 125 Years in Print Five Discoveriesabout Poet Lore Poet Lore, the nation’s oldest poetry journal, will celebrate 125 years of publication Walt Whitman was a subscriber who developed a special kinship with throughout 2014. Founded in January 1889 by Charlotte Porter and Helen Clarke, Poet Lore, corresponding with its editors and writing parting words to two progressive young Shakespeare scholars who believed in the evolutionary nature oet Lore is a biannual print journal of poetry, essays, and reviews. Book-length of literature, Poet Lore has published world-famous poets and new writers side by side issues deliver news from the interior—poems that make concerns of our moment them upon their move from Philadelphia to Boston. He placed ads for throughout its long history. both urgent and intimate. Published with the conviction that poetry provides a Leaves of Grass in three successive issues in 1892, and Poet Lore included record of human experience as valuable as history, Poet Lore’s intended audience is the proceedings of his funeral in its pages later that year. Porter and Clarke launched Poet Lore as a forum on broadly inclusive. “Shakespeare, Browning, and the Comparative Study of 1892 Every submission reaches the journal’s editors, Jody Bolz In the November issue, editor Charlotte Porter characterized Emily Literature” but soon sought out the original work of living Dickinson, whose work was widely misread at the time, as having “the quality writers—featuring more drama than poetry at first, and and E. Ethelbert Miller; there are no “first readers.” Their of the bloodroot, delicate, passionate, but with a sting which sends the reader moving beyond North America and Europe to Asia, South mission, like that of Poet Lore’s founders, is discovery: a commitment to reading poem by poem without regard to 1 wiser away.” She described the poems as “terse aphoristic utterances, where America, and the Middle East. reputation. After reviewing nearly 1,000 poems each month, truth is nested in subtle suggestion.” Early issues of the magazine featured poetry by such lumi- they meet to make choices, reading work aloud, listening naries as Rabindranath Tagore, Frederic Mistral, Charles 2 When other publications lauded Paul Dunbar for a narrow subset of his for what they haven’t heard before. The editorial exchange Baudelaire, Rainer Maria Rilke, Stéphane Mallarmé, and with poets often opens into an extensive correspondence. work, Poet Lore’s editors understood his wider significance: in an 1897 issue, Paul Verlaine. Poems by Sara Teasdale, Emma Lazarus, and Unlike most journals, Poet Lore welcomes long poems and they called him the “spirit of the present” and “first poet of his race.” As many other women poets appeared in Poet Lore’s pages, Loyola University scholar Melissa Girard has written, Poet Lore didn’t shy including work by Harriet Monroe, who went on to sequences. In addition, it publishes portfolios of work by away from foundational debates regarding race and modern poetry. establish Poetry magazine in 1912. individual poets within its “Poets Introducing Poets” and “World Poets in Translation” features. Bolz and Miller draw Porter and Clarke, who were life partners as well as co-editors, founded Poet Lore in 3 In its early decades, Poet Lore provided a forum for world theatre, showcasing upon their skills as poets to arrange each issue in a narrative Philadelphia but two years later moved to Boston, where the journal remained until arc. In this way, Poet Lore invites cover-to-cover reading, bringing diverse poems into entire plays—in translation—of such dramatists as Henrik Ibsen, August 1976, when it was purchased by Heldref Publications in Washington, DC. For the past conversation with one another. Strindberg, José Echegaray, and Anton Chekhov at a time when many 25 years, Poet Lore has been a publication of The Writer’s Center, an independent literary American readers had never heard their names. non-profit in Bethesda, Maryland. 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 Poets Jody Bolz and E. Ethelbert Miller have edited Poet Lore since 2002, Poet Lore’s reputation for editorial quality and literary discovery persists. Many renowned exchange. The goal is nothing less than offering its readers poems built to last. 4 contemporary American poets published their early work (sometimes their very first reading close to 1,000 poems each month without regard to reputation. poems) in Poet Lore—Kim Addonizio, David Baker, John Balaban, Carolyn Forché, Submissions are accepted by mail year-round. This openness to new voices has led to their discovery of a number of Alice Fulton, Dana Gioia, D. Nurkse, Sharon Olds, Mary Oliver, Carl Phillips, We gratefully acknowledge support from the exceptional younger poets, including Reginald Dwayne Betts, whose R.T. Smith, and Natasha Trethewey among them. National Endowment for the Arts. 5 first poem they published in 2004 while he was in prison. Ai • Kim Addonizio • Melih Cevdet Anday • David Baker • John Balaban Samiya Bashir • Charles Baudelaire • R. Dwayne Betts • Charlotte Brontë Anton Chekhov • Martha Collins • Gabriele D'Annunzio • Philip Dacey • Jim Daniels • Kwame Dawes • Matthew Dickman • Rita Dove Denise Duhamel • Cornelius Eady • José Echegaray • Patricia Fargnoli Carolyn Forché • Ford Madox Ford • Paul Fort • Anatole France Stuart Friebert • Alice Fulton • Sandra M. Gilbert • Dana Gioia Michael Harper • Jeffrey Harrison • Terrance Hayes • Hermann Hesse Tony Hoagland • Henrik Ibsen • Colette Inez • Honorée Jeffers Praise for Editorial Staff Poet Lore Executive Editors Review Editor Contributing Editors “Every issue of POET LORE is inspiring, “POET LORE has set the standard for poetry Jody Bolz Jean Nordhaus Cornelius Eady for it shows that the little-magazine tradition magazines in this country since 1889. E. Ethelbert Miller Tony Hoagland has been alive and well since 1889, There is none better. Translation Editor David Lehman with the magazine’s founding. It is an honor to have appeared in its pages.” Managing Editor Suzanne Zweizig Alberto Ríos Jane Shore (Even Walt Whitman wanted aboard.) –Pablo Medina, poet, translator, Genevieve DeLeon I appreciate the skillful editorial steering and Rockefeller and National Endowment David Wagoner for the Arts fellow of this ship and the crew’s loyalty to the Michele Wolf cause of assuring a literary legacy. Publisher “POET LORE does what poetry journals are Walt would be proud.” The Writer’s Center, 4508 Walsh Street, Bethesda, MD 20815 supposed to do: it gives new voices a place –David Ray, poet and former editor of The ChiCago Review, epoCh, to sing and old voices a place to harmonize.” Ted Kooser • Maxine Kumin • Emma Lazarus • Nathaniel Mackey and founding editor of New LeTTeRs –A.B. Spellman, poet, music critic, Stéphane Mallarmé • Pablo Medina • William Meredith and founding member of Frederic Mistral Gabriela Mistral Nancy Morejón David Mura the Black Arts Movement • • • “POET LORE is a wonderful thing— Howard Nemerov • D. Nurkse • Naomi Shihab Nye • dj nanouk okpik Sharon Olds Mary Oliver Linda Pastan Carl Phillips a venue with a venerable tradition and a “POET LORE was the first magazine to • • • Marge Piercy David Ray cutting-edge presence. I’m grateful for the ever publish my work way back when I was a • Christopher Presfield • Alexander Pushkin • Liam Rector Rainer Maria Rilke Arthur Rimbaud support the magazine showed me [when I was college basketball player in South Carolina.” • • starting out], and for the forum it provides to Alberto Ríos • Sherod Santos • Jane Shore • R.T. Smith –Terrance Hayes, poet, educator, writers from across the spectrum now.” and 2010 winner of the August Strindberg • Virgil Suárez • John Synge –D. Nurkse, former poet laureate of National Book Award for Poetry Rabindranath Tagore • Sara Teasdale • Dan Turèll • Paul Verlaine Ai • Kim Addonizio • Melih Cevdet Anday • David Baker • John Balaban Brooklyn and human rights writer David Wagoner • Ronald Wallace • Bruce Weigl • Oscar Wilde Samiya Bashir • Charles Baudelaire • R. Dwayne Betts • Charlotte Brontë “I feel honored to have first published in Ai • Kim AddonizioAmerica’s • Melih Cevdetoriginal Anday poetry • David journal. Baker • John Balaban Anton Chekhov • Martha Collins • Gabriele D'Annunzio • Philip Dacey • “When I was growing up my father always POET LORE….As a young writer, I find it Samiya Bashir • Charles Baudelaire • R. Dwayne Betts • Charlotte Brontë Jim Daniels • Kwame Dawes • Matthew Dickman • Rita Dove had copies of POET LORE lying around the especially encouraging to know that there are Anton Chekhov • Martha Collins • Gabriele D’Annunzio • Philip Dacey • Denise Duhamel • Cornelius Eady • José Echegaray • Patricia Fargnoli house or in his office. It was one of the first still great magazines providing opportunities Jim Daniels • Kwame Dawes • Matthew Dickman • Rita Dove Carolyn Forché • Ford Madox Ford • Paul Fort • Anatole France literary magazines I read and I have admired to those of us who are just breaking into Denise Duhamel • Cornelius Eady • José Echegaray • Patricia Fargnoli Stuart Friebert • Alice Fulton • Sandra M. Gilbert • Dana Gioia the poems I’ve found in its pages ever since.” the publishing scene.” Carolyn Forché • Ford Madox Ford • Paul Fort • Anatole France Michael Harper • Jeffrey Harrison • Terrance Hayes • Hermann Hesse –Natasha Trethewey, –Kimi Cunningham Grant, poet, writer, and Stuart Friebert • Alice Fulton • Sandra M. Gilbert • Dana Gioia Tony Hoagland • Henrik Ibsen • Colette Inez • Honorée Jeffers current U.S. Poet Laureate winner of the Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Michael Harper • poetlore.comJeffrey Harrison • Terrance Hayes • Hermann Hesse Ted Kooser • Maxine Kumin • Emma Lazarus • Nathaniel Mackey Memorial Prize in Poetry Tony Hoagland • Henrik Ibsen • Colette Inez • Honorée Jeffers Stéphane Mallarmé • Pablo Medina • William Meredith Ted Kooser • Maxine Kumin • Emma Lazarus • Nathaniel Mackey Frederic Mistral • Gabriela Mistral • Nancy Morejón • David Mura Stéphane Mallarmé • Pablo Medina • William Meredith Howard Nemerov • D. Nurkse • Naomi Shihab Nye • dj nanouk okpik Poet Lore Celebrates 125 Years in Print Five Discoveriesabout Poet Lore Poet Lore, the nation’s oldest poetry journal, will celebrate 125 years of publication Walt Whitman was a subscriber who developed a special kinship with throughout 2014. Founded in January 1889 by Charlotte Porter and Helen Clarke, Poet Lore, corresponding with its editors and writing parting words to two progressive young Shakespeare scholars who believed in the evolutionary nature oet Lore is a biannual print journal of poetry, essays, and reviews. Book-length of literature, Poet Lore has published world-famous poets and new writers side by side issues deliver news from the interior—poems that make concerns of our moment them upon their move from Philadelphia to Boston. He placed ads for throughout its long history. both urgent and intimate. Published with the conviction that poetry provides a Leaves of Grass in three successive issues in 1892, and Poet Lore included record of human experience as valuable as history, Poet Lore’s intended audience is the proceedings of his funeral in its pages later that year. Porter and Clarke launched Poet Lore as a forum on broadly inclusive. “Shakespeare, Browning, and the Comparative Study of 1892 Every submission reaches the journal’s editors, Jody Bolz In the November issue, editor Charlotte Porter characterized Emily Literature” but soon sought out the original work of living Dickinson, whose work was widely misread at the time, as having “the quality writers—featuring more drama than poetry at first, and and E. Ethelbert Miller; there are no “first readers.” Their of the bloodroot, delicate, passionate, but with a sting which sends the reader moving beyond North America and Europe to Asia, South mission, like that of Poet Lore’s founders, is discovery: a commitment to reading poem by poem without regard to 1 wiser away.” She described the poems as “terse aphoristic utterances, where America, and the Middle East. reputation. After reviewing nearly 1,000 poems each month, truth is nested in subtle suggestion.” Early issues of the magazine featured poetry by such lumi- they meet to make choices, reading work aloud, listening naries as Rabindranath Tagore, Frederic Mistral, Charles 2 When other publications lauded Paul Dunbar for a narrow subset of his for what they haven’t heard before. The editorial exchange Baudelaire, Rainer Maria Rilke, Stéphane Mallarmé, and with poets often opens into an extensive correspondence. work, Poet Lore’s editors understood his wider significance: in an 1897 issue, Paul Verlaine. Poems by Sara Teasdale, Emma Lazarus, and Unlike most journals, Poet Lore welcomes long poems and they called him the “spirit of the present” and “first poet of his race.” As many other women poets appeared in Poet Lore’s pages, Loyola University scholar Melissa Girard has written, Poet Lore didn’t shy including work by Harriet Monroe, who went on to sequences. In addition, it publishes portfolios of work by away from foundational debates regarding race and modern poetry. establish Poetry magazine in 1912. individual poets within its “Poets Introducing Poets” and “World Poets in Translation” features. Bolz and Miller draw Porter and Clarke, who were life partners as well as co-editors, founded Poet Lore in 3 In its early decades, Poet Lore provided a forum for world theatre, showcasing upon their skills as poets to arrange each issue in a narrative Philadelphia but two years later moved to Boston, where the journal remained until arc. In this way, Poet Lore invites cover-to-cover reading, bringing diverse poems into entire plays—in translation—of such dramatists as Henrik Ibsen, August 1976, when it was purchased by Heldref Publications in Washington, DC. For the past conversation with one another. Strindberg, José Echegaray, and Anton Chekhov at a time when many 25 years, Poet Lore has been a publication of The Writer’s Center, an independent literary American readers had never heard their names. non-profit in Bethesda, Maryland. 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 Poets Jody Bolz and E. Ethelbert Miller have edited Poet Lore since 2002, Poet Lore’s reputation for editorial quality and literary discovery persists. Many renowned exchange. The goal is nothing less than offering its readers poems built to last. 4 contemporary American poets published their early work (sometimes their very first reading close to 1,000 poems each month without regard to reputation. poems) in Poet Lore—Kim Addonizio, David Baker, John Balaban, Carolyn Forché, Submissions are accepted by mail year-round. This openness to new voices has led to their discovery of a number of Alice Fulton, Dana Gioia, D. Nurkse, Sharon Olds, Mary Oliver, Carl Phillips, We gratefully acknowledge support from the exceptional younger poets, including Reginald Dwayne Betts, whose R.T. Smith, and Natasha Trethewey among them. National Endowment for the Arts. 5 first poem they published in 2004 while he was in prison. Poet Lore Celebrates 125 Years in Print Five Discoveriesabout Poet Lore Poet Lore, the nation’s oldest poetry journal, will celebrate 125 years of publication Walt Whitman was a subscriber who developed a special kinship with throughout 2014. Founded in January 1889 by Charlotte Porter and Helen Clarke, Poet Lore, corresponding with its editors and writing parting words to two progressive young Shakespeare scholars who believed in the evolutionary nature oet Lore is a biannual print journal of poetry, essays, and reviews. Book-length of literature, Poet Lore has published world-famous poets and new writers side by side issues deliver news from the interior—poems that make concerns of our moment them upon their move from Philadelphia to Boston. He placed ads for throughout its long history. both urgent and intimate. Published with the conviction that poetry provides a Leaves of Grass in three successive issues in 1892, and Poet Lore included record of human experience as valuable as history, Poet Lore’s intended audience is the proceedings of his funeral in its pages later that year. Porter and Clarke launched Poet Lore as a forum on broadly inclusive. “Shakespeare, Browning, and the Comparative Study of 1892 Every submission reaches the journal’s editors, Jody Bolz In the November issue, editor Charlotte Porter characterized Emily Literature” but soon sought out the original work of living Dickinson, whose work was widely misread at the time, as having “the quality writers—featuring more drama than poetry at first, and and E. Ethelbert Miller; there are no “first readers.” Their of the bloodroot, delicate, passionate, but with a sting which sends the reader moving beyond North America and Europe to Asia, South mission, like that of Poet Lore’s founders, is discovery: a commitment to reading poem by poem without regard to 1 wiser away.” She described the poems as “terse aphoristic utterances, where America, and the Middle East. reputation. After reviewing nearly 1,000 poems each month, truth is nested in subtle suggestion.” Early issues of the magazine featured poetry by such lumi- they meet to make choices, reading work aloud, listening naries as Rabindranath Tagore, Frederic Mistral, Charles 2 When other publications lauded Paul Dunbar for a narrow subset of his for what they haven’t heard before. The editorial exchange Baudelaire, Rainer Maria Rilke, Stéphane Mallarmé, and with poets often opens into an extensive correspondence. work, Poet Lore’s editors understood his wider significance: in an 1897 issue, Paul Verlaine. Poems by Sara Teasdale, Emma Lazarus, and Unlike most journals, Poet Lore welcomes long poems and they called him the “spirit of the present” and “first poet of his race.” As many other women poets appeared in Poet Lore’s pages, Loyola University scholar Melissa Girard has written, Poet Lore didn’t shy including work by Harriet Monroe, who went on to sequences. In addition, it publishes portfolios of work by away from foundational debates regarding race and modern poetry. establish Poetry magazine in 1912. individual poets within its “Poets Introducing Poets” and “World Poets in Translation” features. Bolz and Miller draw Porter and Clarke, who were life partners as well as co-editors, founded Poet Lore in 3 In its early decades, Poet Lore provided a forum for world theatre, showcasing upon their skills as poets to arrange each issue in a narrative Philadelphia but two years later moved to Boston, where the journal remained until arc. In this way, Poet Lore invites cover-to-cover reading, bringing diverse poems into entire plays—in translation—of such dramatists as Henrik Ibsen, August 1976, when it was purchased by Heldref Publications in Washington, DC. For the past conversation with one another. Strindberg, José Echegaray, and Anton Chekhov at a time when many 25 years, Poet Lore has been a publication of The Writer’s Center, an independent literary American readers had never heard their names. non-profit in Bethesda, Maryland. 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 Poets Jody Bolz and E. Ethelbert Miller have edited Poet Lore since 2002, Poet Lore’s reputation for editorial quality and literary discovery persists. Many renowned exchange. The goal is nothing less than offering its readers poems built to last. 4 contemporary American poets published their early work (sometimes their very first reading close to 1,000 poems each month without regard to reputation. poems) in Poet Lore—Kim Addonizio, David Baker, John Balaban, Carolyn Forché, Submissions are accepted by mail year-round. This openness to new voices has led to their discovery of a number of Alice Fulton, Dana Gioia, D. Nurkse, Sharon Olds, Mary Oliver, Carl Phillips, We gratefully acknowledge support from the exceptional younger poets, including Reginald Dwayne Betts, whose R.T. Smith, and Natasha Trethewey among them. National Endowment for the Arts. 5 first poem they published in 2004 while he was in prison. Ai • Kim Addonizio • Melih Cevdet Anday • David Baker • John Balaban Samiya Bashir • Charles Baudelaire • R. Dwayne Betts • Charlotte Brontë Anton Chekhov • Martha Collins • Gabriele D'Annunzio • Philip Dacey • Jim Daniels • Kwame Dawes • Matthew Dickman • Rita Dove Denise Duhamel • Cornelius Eady • José Echegaray • Patricia Fargnoli Carolyn Forché • Ford Madox Ford • Paul Fort • Anatole France Stuart Friebert • Alice Fulton • Sandra M. Gilbert • Dana Gioia Michael Harper • Jeffrey Harrison • Terrance Hayes • Hermann Hesse Tony Hoagland • Henrik Ibsen • Colette Inez • Honorée Jeffers Praise for Editorial Staff Poet Lore Executive Editors Review Editor Contributing Editors “Every issue of POET LORE is inspiring, “POET LORE has set the standard for poetry Jody Bolz Jean Nordhaus Cornelius Eady for it shows that the little-magazine tradition magazines in this country since 1889. E. Ethelbert Miller Tony Hoagland has been alive and well since 1889, There is none better. Translation Editor David Lehman with the magazine’s founding. It is an honor to have appeared in its pages.” Managing Editor Suzanne Zweizig Alberto Ríos Jane Shore (Even Walt Whitman wanted aboard.) –Pablo Medina, poet, translator, Genevieve DeLeon I appreciate the skillful editorial steering and Rockefeller and National Endowment David Wagoner for the Arts fellow of this ship and the crew’s loyalty to the Michele Wolf cause of assuring a literary legacy. Publisher “POET LORE does what poetry journals are Walt would be proud.” The Writer’s Center, 4508 Walsh Street, Bethesda, MD 20815 supposed to do: it gives new voices a place –David Ray, poet and former editor of The ChiCago Review, epoCh, to sing and old voices a place to harmonize.” Ted Kooser • Maxine Kumin • Emma Lazarus • Nathaniel Mackey and founding editor of New LeTTeRs –A.B. Spellman, poet, music critic, Stéphane Mallarmé • Pablo Medina • William Meredith and founding member of Frederic Mistral Gabriela Mistral Nancy Morejón David Mura the Black Arts Movement • • • “POET LORE is a wonderful thing— Howard Nemerov • D. Nurkse • Naomi Shihab Nye • dj nanouk okpik Sharon Olds Mary Oliver Linda Pastan Carl Phillips a venue with a venerable tradition and a “POET LORE was the first magazine to • • • Marge Piercy David Ray cutting-edge presence. I’m grateful for the ever publish my work way back when I was a • Christopher Presfield • Alexander Pushkin • Liam Rector Rainer Maria Rilke Arthur Rimbaud support the magazine showed me [when I was college basketball player in South Carolina.” • • starting out], and for the forum it provides to Alberto Ríos • Sherod Santos • Jane Shore • R.T. Smith –Terrance Hayes, poet, educator, writers from across the spectrum now.” and 2010 winner of the August Strindberg • Virgil Suárez • John Synge –D. Nurkse, former poet laureate of National Book Award for Poetry Rabindranath Tagore • Sara Teasdale • Dan Turèll • Paul Verlaine Ai • Kim Addonizio • Melih Cevdet Anday • David Baker • John Balaban Brooklyn and human rights writer David Wagoner • Ronald Wallace • Bruce Weigl • Oscar Wilde Samiya Bashir • Charles Baudelaire • R. Dwayne Betts • Charlotte Brontë “I feel honored to have first published in Ai • Kim AddonizioAmerica’s • Melih Cevdetoriginal Anday poetry • David journal. Baker • John Balaban Anton Chekhov • Martha Collins • Gabriele D'Annunzio • Philip Dacey • “When I was growing up my father always POET LORE….As a young writer, I find it Samiya Bashir • Charles Baudelaire • R. Dwayne Betts • Charlotte Brontë Jim Daniels • Kwame Dawes • Matthew Dickman • Rita Dove had copies of POET LORE lying around the especially encouraging to know that there are Anton Chekhov • Martha Collins • Gabriele D’Annunzio • Philip Dacey • Denise Duhamel • Cornelius Eady • José Echegaray • Patricia Fargnoli house or in his office. It was one of the first still great magazines providing opportunities Jim Daniels • Kwame Dawes • Matthew Dickman • Rita Dove Carolyn Forché • Ford Madox Ford • Paul Fort • Anatole France literary magazines I read and I have admired to those of us who are just breaking into Denise Duhamel • Cornelius Eady • José Echegaray • Patricia Fargnoli Stuart Friebert • Alice Fulton • Sandra M. Gilbert • Dana Gioia the poems I’ve found in its pages ever since.” the publishing scene.” Carolyn Forché • Ford Madox Ford • Paul Fort • Anatole France Michael Harper • Jeffrey Harrison • Terrance Hayes • Hermann Hesse –Natasha Trethewey, –Kimi Cunningham Grant, poet, writer, and Stuart Friebert • Alice Fulton • Sandra M. Gilbert • Dana Gioia Tony Hoagland • Henrik Ibsen • Colette Inez • Honorée Jeffers current U.S. Poet Laureate winner of the Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Michael Harper • poetlore.comJeffrey Harrison • Terrance Hayes • Hermann Hesse Ted Kooser • Maxine Kumin • Emma Lazarus • Nathaniel Mackey Memorial Prize in Poetry Tony Hoagland • Henrik Ibsen • Colette Inez • Honorée Jeffers Stéphane Mallarmé • Pablo Medina • William Meredith Ted Kooser • Maxine Kumin • Emma Lazarus • Nathaniel Mackey Frederic Mistral • Gabriela Mistral • Nancy Morejón • David Mura Stéphane Mallarmé • Pablo Medina • William Meredith Howard Nemerov • D. Nurkse • Naomi Shihab Nye • dj nanouk okpik