About Light Quarterly

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Light Quarterly is a publication produced by The Foundation for Light Verse, Inc. as an expression of its mission to promote and promulgate light, metrical, and amusing verse. More information about The Foundation for Light Verse is available at http://www.foundationforlightverse.org/

LIGHT is the only magazine available in this country in publication since 1992 devoted exclusively to Light Verse. Our contributors include not only well-known poets, but exciting new talent. (We've published John Updike, William Stafford, Donald Hall, Michael Benedikt, John Frederick Nims, Tom Disch, W. D. Snodgrass, Wendy Cope, William Jay Smith, and William Matthews, among many others.)

This magazine discards what is obscure and dreary, and restores lightness, understandability, and pleasure to the reading of poems. It seeks in short, to not only resurrect the literary milieu (if not the time) of Ogden Nash, Dorothy Parker, James Thurber, E. B. White, Morris Bishop, David McCord, Peter De Vries, as well as foster new talent in light verse- like Norman Ball, Charles Ghigna, John Whitworth and Alicia Stallings.

Our roster of libraries shows its appeal: The New York Public Library, Cleveland Public Library, university libraries of Harvard, Columbia, Brown, Buffalo, Wisconsin, Mississippi, and other public libraries across the country. With large type-faces and an elegant use of space, our format is inviting and accessible.

You're invited to discover (in X. J. Kennedy's words) "the one place in America that regularly prints new work by the best unserious poets alive."

Staff