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Light (journal)

Online literary magazine

Summary

Online literary magazine

Field	Value
image_file	Light № 70–71.jpg
image_caption	Light № 70–71, photo: Lisa Krone
category	Light verse
editor	Melissa Balmain (2013–present)
previous_editor	John Mella (1992–2012)
publisher	Foundation for Light Verse
country	USA
based	Chicago
founded	1992
finaldate	2012 (print)
firstdate	2013 (online)
frequency	semiannual issues, plus topical Poems of the Week
website	https://lightpoetrymagazine.com/
issn	1064-8186

Light (formerly Light: A Quarterly of Light Verse) is an online journal that bills itself as "North America's longest-running journal of light verse."

History and profile

Light was founded as a print journal in 1992 by a retired postal worker John Mella. Mella personally published the journal until 2008, when he founded the non-profit Foundation for Light Verse with a gift from poet Joyce La Mers. The Foundation, headed by Mella, took over the publication of the journal. After Mella died in 2012, the magazine was relaunched as an online-only, semiannual publication, edited by his handpicked successor, poet Melissa Balmain. The all-volunteer staff includes poets Kevin Durkin, Coleman Glenn, Allison Joseph, Julie Kane, Barbara Loots, and Gail White.

Since 2017, Light has also published Poems of the Week on Mondays, inspired by current events.

Each biannual issue (winter/spring and summer/fall) begins with a feature on a writer of light verse and includes reviews of light (or largely light) poetry collections. Sections in between have varied from issue to issue, including "Spectrum" roundups on types of light verse (Little Willies, "impossible rhymes," etc.) and an occasional column, "Historical and Hysterical," by A. M. Juster. The magazine has published the verses of Wendy Cope, Thomas M. Disch, X. J. Kennedy, John Updike, and Richard Wilbur, among many others.

Contributors

Notable contributors include the following:

Brian Allgar
Melissa Balmain
Bruce Bennett (poet)
Maureen Cannon
William Rossa Cole
Edmund Conti
Wendy Cope
Alma Denny
Paul Dickey
Tom Disch
Rhina P. Espaillat
Willard R. Espy
Gavin Ewart
Daniel Galef
David Galef
Charles Ghigna
Dana Gioia
Albert Goldbarth
Bill Greenwell
R.S. Gwynn
Donald Hall
Julie Kane
A. M. Juster
X. J. Kennedy
James Kirkup
Richard Kostelanetz
Joyce La Mers
Felicia Lamport
James Laughlin
J. Patrick Lewis
Amit Majmudar
William Matthews
Bob McKenty
Susan McLean
John Frederick Nims
Chris O'Carroll
Jack Prelutsky
Maurice Sagoff
Mae Scanlan
Ed Shacklee
Jim Siergey
William Jay Smith
W. D. Snodgrass
William Stafford
A.E. Stallings
Timothy Steele
Marilyn L. Taylor
John Updike
Gail White
John Whitworth
Richard Wilbur
David Yezzi

References

Nicol, Alfred (August 2, 2013), "A New Morning for Light" A New Morning for Light.

References

Miner, Michael. (March 18, 2010). "A Windfall for Light Verse". Chicago Reader.

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