| Editor | Richard Newman |
|---|---|
| Categories | Literary magazine |
| Frequency | Triannual |
| First issue | 1975 |
| Company | Big River Association |
| Country | United States |
| Based in | St. Louis, Missouri |
| Language | English |
| Website | www.riverstyx.org |
| ISSN | 0149-8851 |
River Styx was launched in St Louis, Missouri, U.S.A. in 1975 after earlier poetry readings and musical sessions among enthusiasts had begun in the early 1970s. The magazine is produced three times a year and is available in bookshops and other outlets and by subscription. It has developed into a journal of poetry, fiction, essays, interviews and art.
The magazine prides itself on being one of the first journals to publish some of the most important writers of our time, from U.S. Poet Laureates (Charles Simic, Howard Nemerov, Mona Van Duyn, Rita Dove, Robert Hass and Ted Kooser), to Pulitzer Prize-Winners (Yusef Komunyakaa, Maxine Kumin, and Stephen Dunn) to Nobel Laureates (Derek Walcott and Czesław Miłosz).[1] Other contributors of note include Rodney Jones, Molly Peacock, Albert Goldbarth, Ntozake Shange, Margaret Atwood, Li-Young Lee, Alan Shapiro, Richard W. Burgin, A. E. Stallings, Jacob M. Appel, Mary Troy, Catherine Min, and George Singleton.
The magazine has always devoted several pages each issue to artists. Artists have included Lynda Frese, Emmet Gowan, John Slaughter, Patte Loper, Birney Imes, Virginia Beahan, Laura McPhee, Deborah Luster, Dana Moore, Benedict Fernandez, and Frank Shaw.
The magazine sponsors two contests each year for microfiction and poetry. Past judges for the International Poetry Contest have included Billy Collins, Phillip Levine, Maxine Kumin, and Molly Peacock.
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The magazine has won several Stanley Hanks Prizes, awards from the Coordinating Council of Literary Magazines as well as grants and support from the National Endowment for the Arts, Missouri Arts Council, Regional Arts Commission, Missouri Humanities Council, and Arts and Education Council. Its poems and stories have appeared in Best American Poetry and New Stories from the South anthologies, Best New Poets, and The Pushcart Prizes: Best of the Small Presses.
Readings continue to take place each month, at Duff's Restaurant in Nth Euclid St, St Louis, at 7.30pm on the 3rd Monday of the month.[2] Since 1998, River Styx has hosted the Hungry Young Poets series in the summer, featuring upcoming poets under the age of 33.