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The Hampden-Sydney Poetry Review, published annually, has been a respected journal in the world of poetry for forty years. 

• The Hampden-Sydney Poetry Review is one of the longest continuously-run poetry journals in the United States.
• It is one of only about a dozen established literary journals nationwide devoted solely to poetry.
• The magazine has published new work by a long list of the world’s distinguished poets:
  
  • Pulitzer prizewinners W.D. Snodgrass, Kenneth Rexroth, Claudia Emerson, Louis Simpson, Charles Simic, and Henry Taylor
  • National Book Award winners Robert Bly, A. R. Ammons, and William Stafford, and Terrance Hayes
  • former U.S. Poet Laureate Mark Strand
  • Forward Prize and T.S. Eliot Prize Winner John Burnside
  • Other recent contributors include Carl Phillips, Robert Wrigley, John Kinsella, Lisa Jarnot, Lavinia Greenlaw, Billy Collins, Sherman Alexie, Todd Boss and many many others.
• Prose and Poetry from the Review have been featured numerous times in recent years on Poetry Daily and Verse Daily.
• Various poets and reviewers have the following to say about The Hampden-Sydney Poetry Review:

  “I'm a real fan...”
  - A. R. Ammons (1979)-two time winner of the National Book Award
             
  “I like the look of it, the feel of it--the taste of it.”
  -William Stafford (1978), National Book Award Winner

  “...it has class.”
  - William Dickey (1979)

  “Great issues.”
  -May Sarton (1980), American Book Award Winner

  “...thanks for your good, good magazine.”
  -Richard Hugo (1981), winner of  the Theodore Roethke Prize and Helen Bullis Award

  “...it is an excellent publication.”
  -Josephine Jacobson(2001), National Book Award finalist

  “this [is] a journal that is as much about poetry as it is a showcase for poetry"
  - New Pages (2012)

  “Nearly forty years on, the review is still finding new ways to spice things up under its covers"
  - New Pages (2014)