About Light Quarterly

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LIGHT is the only magazine available in this country 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 resurrect the literary milieu (if not the time) of Ogden Nash, Dorothy Parker, James Thurber, E. B. White, Morris Bishop, David McCord, and Peter De Vries.

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."

ATLANTIS

Atlantis is a quiet spot
Where it's more humid than it's hot.
If it is. Perhaps it's not.

C.L. GROVE

 

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