Among the poetry magazines I picked up toward the end of spring for summer reading: Barrow Street. I've always liked Barrow Street because more than any literary review I know, it takes poetry seriously enough to exclude other genres. And still publish a high-quality number. I know, I know. Poetry has something to say here. So do others. But Barrow Street is devoted to poetry, more or less, to The Poem. And not the poem by the rock star.
The 2013/14 Winter issue (not yet online) assembles more than 200 pages of poems by over 100 poets. Talk about your festschrift of what's happening right this minute in poetry! Can you imagine the amount of work required to assemble 200+ quality pages of poems by 100+ quality poets? The contributors are arranged alphabetically by name; most are represented by one piece, usually no longer than a page or page and a quarter. The shortest poem is "Gide," by Adam Day:
Our cat
tactfully
survived fame
slept strictly
guarded in black
photographs
Three of the contributors--Sharon Dolan, Page Hill Starzinger, Aafa Michael Weaver--are featured through works in progress or book excerpts of up to seven pages.
This issue includes three poems by Clark Moore. Clark! Dancing in a circle, arms waving above the head. A Clark! I'm feeling tribal. Well, vicarious.
Find a good bookstore (i.e., one with more than one shelf of poetry and one that carries poetry mags, like Quail Ridge Books in Raleigh, North Carolina, and pick up a copy. Always good reading.
The 2013/14 Winter issue (not yet online) assembles more than 200 pages of poems by over 100 poets. Talk about your festschrift of what's happening right this minute in poetry! Can you imagine the amount of work required to assemble 200+ quality pages of poems by 100+ quality poets? The contributors are arranged alphabetically by name; most are represented by one piece, usually no longer than a page or page and a quarter. The shortest poem is "Gide," by Adam Day:
Our cat
tactfully
survived fame
slept strictly
guarded in black
photographs
Three of the contributors--Sharon Dolan, Page Hill Starzinger, Aafa Michael Weaver--are featured through works in progress or book excerpts of up to seven pages.
This issue includes three poems by Clark Moore. Clark! Dancing in a circle, arms waving above the head. A Clark! I'm feeling tribal. Well, vicarious.
Find a good bookstore (i.e., one with more than one shelf of poetry and one that carries poetry mags, like Quail Ridge Books in Raleigh, North Carolina, and pick up a copy. Always good reading.
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