Assignment 9

The American Poetry Review is a world wide well known literary magazine. They send out their issues six times a year to their worldwide audience. It tries to capture the best contemporary poetry and literary. It also is perfect for up coming or well-known authors or poets to show off their work to a very large audience. The magazine was founded in 1972 in Philadelphia. When it first came out it was the most recognized literary magazine, packed with just about anything you could think of. To have a little fun the magazine gives out awards to people who they think wrote the best book of poems. They winner gets $3000. The website is very easy to use and explore, it can be easily accessed by looking up the American Poetry Review. The magazine is full of interviews, literary essays and essays on social issues, translations, fiction, reviews, and poetry. But that’s just what I was able to pick up, I am sure its packed with more interesting topics to read about as well. After reading the January/ February 2010 issue, I really liked the way the magazine was set up. I thought the poems were fresh and enjoyable to read. If I were to pick a place to send in my poems I would pick this place, and not just because I would want to keep trying to win the $3000 prize. Each poet has a few of their poems in the magazine, not just one, which I liked, it was nice to read a few different poems from the same author. I not only thought the poems were good, but the way the magazine looked. It looks nice and clean and presents itself to look upper management. The poems have a wide range of different topics. I think most of the poems we have looked at this year would fit nicely into this magazine, with the exception of maybe the visual poems. If I had to pick a literary magazine to subscribe to I would pick the American poetry Review, it has what I seem to believe the broadest amount of categories to read and I like that is has a annual prize giveaway.