Poet Lore is a biannual print journal of poetry, featuring the finest in contemporary writing. 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.
Established in 1889 by Charlotte Porter and Helen Archibald Clarke, who were life partners as well as co-editors, launched the magazine 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 publish in translation the work of writers from Asia, South America, and the Middle East. In its early decades, the magazine featured poetry by Rabindranath Tagore, Frederic Mistral, Rainier Maria Rilke, Stephane Mallarmé, and Paul Verlaine.
Unlike most journals, Poet Lore welcomes long poems and sequences. In this way, Poet Lore invites cover-to-cover reading, bringing diverse poems into conversation with one another. The newly redesigned issue measures 8.5 x 11 inches, allowing Poet Lore to position multiple poems on one page to invite readers to make connections between each poem.
Poet Lore’s reputation for discovery arises from this unique editorial culture: a commitment to considering each submission with care and engaging authors in a meaningful exchange. The goal is nothing less than to offer its readers poems built to last.
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