Atlanta Review

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Atlanta Review
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Spring/Summer 2006 issue
Editor Karen Head
Former editorsDaniel Veach
FrequencySemiannual
FormatPrint
FounderDaniel Veach
Year founded1994;26 years ago (1994)
CountryUnited States
Based in Atlanta, Georgia, U.S.
LanguageEnglish
Website http://atlantareview.com/
ISSN 1073-9696
OCLC 869692966

Atlanta Review is an international poetry journal based in Atlanta, Georgia, United States. It was founded by Daniel Veach in 1994 and is published twice a year. Karen Head of the Georgia Institute of Technology became editor in 2016. [1]

The journal's focus is poetry, but interviews and black-and-white artwork are occasionally accepted. Nobel Laureates, American Poet Laureates, and Pulitzer Prize winners are among the many notable poets whose work has appeared in Atlanta Review, including Joseph Brodsky, Billy Collins, Carl Dennis, Stephen Dunn, Gunter Grass, Rachel Hadas, Seamus Heaney, Josephine Jacobsen, Yusef Komunyakaa, Ted Kooser, Thomas Lux, Eugenio Montale, Paul Muldoon, Natasha Trethewey, Maxine Kumin, Charles Simic, Louis Simpson, Tracy K. Smith, Alicia Stallings, Mark Strand, Derek Walcott, and Charles Wright. [2] [3] Works first published in Atlanta Review have been included in the Best American Poetry and Pushcart Prize anthologies. [4]

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References

  1. ↑ "About". Atlanta Review. Archived from the original on November 20, 2017. Retrieved November 20, 2017.
  2. ↑ Kelley, Colin (February 17, 2016). "Atlanta Review gets new editor, home at Georgia Tech". Atlanta In Town.
  3. ↑ Nash, Patty (June 11, 2015). "In Conversation: Alex Cigale, Guest Editor of the Atlanta Review's Russian Poetry Issue". Asymptote .
  4. ↑ Brewer, Robert Lee, ed. (2015). Poet's Market 2016. Writer's Digest Books. p. 162. ISBN   9781599639574.


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