The Virginia Quarterly Review

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The Virginia Quarterly Review
Type Quarterly Magazine
Format Magazine
Owner University of Virginia
Editor Ted Genoways
Founded Spring, 1925
Price $14
Headquarters Charlottesville, VA
ISSN 0042-675X
Website: http://www.vqronline.org/

The Virginia Quarterly Review is a literary magazine in the United States. [1] It was founded in 1925 by James Southall Wilson, at the request of University of Virginia president E. A. Alderman. The self-described "National Journal of Literature and Discussion" is a quarterly publication from the University of Virginia that includes poetry, fiction, book reviews, essays, photography, and comics from some of the nation's most notable writers, photographers and artists.

As of 2007, poems from the magazine have appeared in the 1990, 1993, 2000, 2005, 2006 and 2007 editions of The Best American Poetry series.[2]

Contents

[edit] Notable contributors

[edit] Essays

[edit] Fiction

[edit] Poetry

[edit] Editors

  • James Southall Wilson 1925-1931
  • Stringfellow Barr 1931-1937
  • Lambert Davis 1937-1938
  • Lawrence Lee 1938-1942
  • Archibald Bolling Shepperson 1942
  • Charlotte Kohler 1942-1974
  • Staige D. Blackford 1974-2003
  • Ted Genoways 2003-

[edit] Notes

  1. ^ O'Rourke, M: "Why the Virginia Quarterly Review Matters", 'Slate', March 17, 2006.
  2. ^ [1]Search page result for "The Virginia Quarterly Review" at the Best American Poetry series Web site, accessed October 14, 2007

[edit] External links

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