New American Writing
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New American Writing is a once-a-year American literary magazine emphasizing contemporary American poetry, including a range of innovative contemporary writing.
The publication is edited by poets Paul Hoover, editor of Postmodern American Poetry, and his wife, Maxine Chernoff, author of the works of fiction Bop and American Heaven.
The magazine is published in association with San Francisco State University, where Hoover has been professor of creative writing since 2003 when he and Chernoff moved from Chicago.
New American Writing is published by OINK! Press, a nonprofit organization. The magazine appears in early June each year.
Past contributors include 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.
Artists whose work has appeared on the magazine's cover include Alex Katz, Robert Mapplethorpe, Jennifer Bartlett, Elizabeth Murray, and Fairfield Porter.
Work from the magazine has frequently appeared in the annual The Best American Poetry series and also in the annual Pushcart Anthology.
[edit] History
The magazine was founded in 1986. Two years later, in l988, the Coordinating Council of Literary Magazines named New American Writing one of the nation's 10 outstanding literary magazines.
Special issues of the magazine (all in print except for No. 4) include:
- 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 Régis Bonvicino (No. 18)
