Light Quarterly
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Light: A Quarterly of Light Verse, published in Chicago since 1992 by founding editor John Mella, bills itself as "the only magazine available in [the U.S.] devoted exclusively to Light Verse." The verse in each issue begins with a several-page feature on a writer of light verse, and ends with a reprint of a poem by a past master. Sections in between vary from issue to issue and each gathers poems that share something thematic, for example: children's verse, political poems, poems on marriage. The magazine has included the verse of Wendy Cope, Tom Disch, X.J. Kennedy, John Updike, and Richard Wilbur, among many others.
[edit] Contributors
Notable contributors include Maureen Cannon, Wendy Cope, Thomas Disch, Willard R. Espy, Gavin Ewart, Dana Gioia, Albert Goldbarth, R.S. Gwynn, Donald Hall, A.M. Juster, X.J. Kennedy, James Kirkup, Felicia Lamport, James Laughlin, Bob McKenty, William Matthews, John Frederick Nims, Maurice Sagoff, William Jay Smith, W. D. Snodgrass, William Stafford, John Updike, Richard Wilbur, children's writers Charles Ghigna, J. Patrick Lewis, and Jack Prelutsky, cartoonist Jim Siergey, anthologists William Rossa Cole and Robert Wallace, and critic Richard Kostelanetz.
