Boulevard (magazine)

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Boulevard magazine, published by St. Louis University, is an American literary magazine that publishes prose and award-winning poetry.

Richard Burgin founded the magazine in 1985 and continues as the editor.^[1]

The magzine has won city, state, and national grants and awards. Many poems, stories and essays are reprinted in anthologies such as The Best American Poetry series, The Best American Short Stories, The Pushcart Prize, O.Henry Prize Stories, and The Best American Essays.^[1]

Poet Charles Simic has called it one of the eight best literary magazines in America, and poet Daniel Hoffman cas called it "one of the half-dozen best literary journals."^[2]

Poets and authors who have appeared in the magazine include Alice Adams, John Ashbery, John Barth, Ann Beattie, Robert Bly, Mark Doty, Marilyn Hacker, Donald Hall, Philip Levine, David Mamet, Joyce Carol Oates, Carl Phillips, Francine Prose, Ruth Stone, Charles Simic, Mark Strand, James Tate, and John Updike.^[2]

[edit] The type of submissions its editor likes

In a 2003 interview, Burgin said, "My suspicion, especially of many MFA writers, is that they are writing what they think will get published and are not sufficiently interested in exploring the form. [...] In Boulevard's slush pile, I find very little experimentation in form and structure. The stuff is tame. I see very little experimentation in point of view, in language. The subject matter is generally politically correct. Political correctness is the most noxious disease and enemy of the literary artist of our current time."^[1]

[edit] Notes

^ ^a ^b ^c [1]Web page titled "Interview with Eric Miles Williamson in Pleiades, a journal of new writing" at Richard Burgin's Web site, accessed January 31, 2007, according to the Web page: "This interview was conducted by Eric Miles Williamson in the summer of 2003 and Robin Theiss in the summer of 2005. The Williamson portion first appeared in Volume 24:2 issue of the literary journal, Pleiades, 2004."
^ ^a ^b [2] Boulevard magazine home page, accessed January 31, 2007