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New American Writing

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Categories
  
literary magazine

Year founded
  
1986

Country
  
United States

Frequency
  
Annual

Company
  
OINK! Press

Editor
  
Paul Hoover and Maxine Chernoff

New American Writing is a once-a-year American literary magazine emphasizing contemporary American poetry, including a range of innovative contemporary writing. The magazine is published in association with San Francisco State University. New American Writing is published by OINK! Press, a nonprofit organization. The magazine appears in early June each year. First published in 1986.

Contents

Editors

The publication is edited by poets Paul Hoover, editor of Postmodern American Poetry, and Maxine Chernoff.

Contributors

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, Michael Palmer, Lyn Hejinian, and Charles Bernstein.

Cover Art

Alex Katz, Robert Mapplethorpe, Jennifer Bartlett, Elizabeth Murray, and Fairfield Porter.

Other Anthologies

Work from the magazine has appeared in the annual The Best American Poetry series and also in the annual Pushcart Anthology.

Special issues

  • Supplement of Australian poetry edited by John Tranter (No. 4)
  • Censorship and the Arts (No. 5)
  • Supplement of innovative poetry from Great Britain edited by Ric Caddel
  • Supplement of Brazilian poetry edited by RĂ©gis Bonvicino (No. 18)
  • References

    New American Writing Wikipedia