THE AMERICAN POETRY REVIEW AT 50

Testimonials from Kaveh Akbar, Victoria Chang, Tiana Clark, Matthew Dickman, Camille Dungy, Megan Fernandes, Jane Hirshfield, Major Jackson, Dorianne Laux, Jessica Lee, Ada Limón, John Murillo, Sharon Olds, Ed Pavlić,

INTRODUCTION My relationship with APR began as an assignment, not with a submission. Sometime in the mid-nineties, as Poetry Curator of the Painted Bride Art Center, I had been invited to edit a special edition of Philadelphia poets along with then-associate editor and now board member Ethel Rackin. The office was next to the bookstore Barnes & Noble on Walnut Street. During those pre-internet years, quite hungry for contemporary poetry, I would stand for several hours in the periodicals section and, bimonthly, read each new issue of APR; my favorites, I purchased and took home with me as a kind of roadmap to a community of writers I longed to join. I looked forward to diving into its large-format, newspaper-style offering of poets. Nervousness and excitement, in equal measure, overcame me that day…

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The American Poetry Review (Digital) - 1 Issue, November/December 2022

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