The Winter 2006 issue of The Hampden-Sydney Poetry Review features cover art by Virginia artist Homer Springer.

The Hampden-Sydney Poetry Review has been a respected journal in the world of poetry for over thirty years.  In 2008 it will reach a turning point in its history as Tom O’Grady, founding editor, retires from the faculty of Hampden-Sydney College and from his position as editor of the Poetry Review. He will hand over the reins to a new editor, Nathaniel Perry, this year.

• The Hampden-Sydney Poetry Review is the second longest continuously-run poetry journal in the United States.
• It is one of only about a dozen magazines nationwide devoted solely to poetry.
• The magazine has published a long list of the world’s distinguished poets:
• Nobel laureates Jaroslav Seifert and Roald Hoffman
• Pulitzer prizewinners W.D. Snodgrass, Kenneth Rexroth, Peter Viereck, Louis Simpson, Charles Simic, and Henry Taylor
• National Book Award winners Robert Bly, A. R. Ammons, and William Stafford
• former U.S. Poet Laureate Mark Strand
• Paris Review winner Richard Bentley
• American Book Award winner May Sarton,
•  Theodore Weiss, Marge Piercy, Denise Levertov, William Dickey, William Styron, Willie Morris, and many, many others.
• Forty-three university libraries nationwide subscribe to the Poetry Review, including Harvard, Yale, Brown, Cornell, Georgetown, Howard, Vanderbilt, UVA, UNC, and the University of Iowa
• Currently, Tom O’Grady publishes about three percent of the submissions he receives.
• Various poets 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