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Poet Lore is a biannual print journal of poetry, essays, and reviews, published with the conviction that poetry provides a record of human experience as valuable as history. Book-length issues deliver poems that make concerns of our moment both urgent and intimate.

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Back issues can be purchased for $10 (plus shipping) if available. Please email managing editor Emily Holland (emily.holland@writer.org) for all back issue requests.

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4508 Walsh St.
Bethesda, MD 20815

“I feel honored to have first published in Poet Lore….As a young writer, I find it especially encouraging to know that there are still great magazines providing opportunities to those of us who are just breaking into the publishing scene.”
—Kimi Cunningham Grant, poet, writer, and winner of the Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Memorial Prize in Poetry