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NEW
AMERICAN WRITING
ORGANIZATIONAL HISTORY
New
American Writing is published by OINK! Press,
a not-for-profit, tax-exempt organization registered in the State of Illinois.
Contributions to the magazine are welcome and fully tax-deductible.
Founded in 1986, New American Writing is a literary magazine emphasizing
contemporary American poetry. Edited by Paul Hoover, poet and editor of
Postmodern American Poetry (W.
W. Norton, 1994), and Maxine Chernoff, poet and author of the works
of fiction Bop and American Heaven, it appears once a year
in early June. The magazine is distinctive for publishing a range of innovative
contemporary writing.
Each issue includes cover art by leading artists, including Alex Katz,
Robert Mapplethorpe, Jennifer Bartlett, Elizabeth Murray, and Fairfield
Porter. Contributors have included John Ashbery, Robert Creeley, Charles
Simic, Jorie Graham, Denise Levertov, Hilda Morley, August Kleinzahler,
Ann Lauterbach, Ned Rorem, Wanda Coleman, Nathaniel Mackey, Barbara Guest,
Marjorie Perloff, Lyn Hejinian, and Charles Bernstein, among others. Contributors
have frequently been included in the annual anthology, The Best American
Poetry (Scribners), edited by poet and critic David Lehman and a distinguished
guest editor. Work from the magazine has also appeared in the distinguished
Pushcart Anthology. In l988 the magazine was named one of the nation's
ten outstanding literary magazines by Coordinating Council of Literary
Magazines.
Special issues of the magazine include a supplement of Australian poetry
edited by John Tranter (No. 4), an issue on Censorship and the Arts (No.
5), a supplement of innovative poetry from Great Britain edited by Ric
Caddel, and a supplement of Brazilian poetry edited by Régis Bonvicino
(No. 18). All back issues of the magazine are in print with the exception
of No. 4 and can be ordered from the address below.
Subscriptions are available to individuals at $27 for three issues.
Subscriptions by check should be addressed to:
New American Writing
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