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“One of the nation’s leading literary magazines.”
Founded in 1986 by Maxine Chernoff and Paul Hoover, New American Writing is an annual literary magazine emphasizing contemporary American poetry. The magazine is distinctive for publishing a range of innovative writing. Contributors have included John Ashbery, Robert Creeley, Charles Simic, Jorie Graham, Barbara Guest, F***y Howe, Rosmarie Waldrop, Nathaniel Mackey, Marjorie Perloff, Lyn Hejinian, Charles Bernstein, Cole Swensen, Elizabeth Robinson, Donald Revell, Claudia Keelan, Gillian Conoley, Karen Volkman, Ben Lerner, G.C. Waldrop, Noelle Kocot, Harryette Mullen, Sawako Nakayasu, and Tongo Eisen-Martin, as well as international figures in English translation such as Jorge Luis Borges, Tomasž Šalamun, Mahmoud Darwish, Martin Barea Mattos, Huang Fan, and Ales Steger. Each issue includes cover art by leading artists, including Enrique Chagoya, Bill Viola, Alex Katz, Larry Rivers, Robert Mapplethorpe, Jennifer Bartlett, Elizabeth Murray, Fairfield Porter, and Joe Brainard.
The magazine is currently edited by Paul Hoover at 369 Molino Avenue, Mill Valley, CA 94941. Manuscripts must be sent by post and include a stamped and self-addressed envelope. The website is www.newamericanwriting.com.
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), innovative poetry from Great Britain edited by Ric Caddel (No. 9/10), modern and contemporary Brazilian poetry edited by Régis Bonvicino (No. 18), and a special feature on Clark Coolidge (No. 19), Russian Absurdist Poetry of the 1930s, edited by Eugene Ostashevsky (No. 20), and The New Canadian Poetry, edited by Todd Swift (No. 23).
The current issue is No. 37 (2019). To obtain any issue since No. 25 (2007), send a check for $15 to the editorial address above, and we’ll immediately ship it by first class mail.
