Poet Lore will have a booth in the bookfair exhibit at the upcoming AWP Conference in Chicago, where we’ll be celebrating our 120th year in print. 

When Charlotte Porter and Helen Clarke started their 25 cent journal on “Shakespeare, Browning & Contemporary Literature” in 1889, I don’t think they could have imagined what Poet Lore would become. 

Over a century later, thanks to The Writer’s Center, Poet Lore is still going strong, with fabulous established and emerging voices coming together in every issue.  Dedicated to contemporary poetry, Poet Lore celebrates innovative and evocative form, style, tone, and language.  To honor Poet Lore’s beginnings, we will be selling individual issues for the original cover price of 25 cents at AWP in Chicago.

If you’re there, we hope you’ll stop by to see us in Booth 238.  Those of you who’ve been published in our pages before, we’d be proud to have you sign the issue in which your work appeared for our archives.  Those of you who have not yet appeared in our journal, send us your work!  We hope to see you in sunny Chicago for Valentine’s Day.