The Virginia Quarterly Review
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| Type | Quarterly Magazine |
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| Format | Magazine |
| Owner | University of Virginia |
| Editor | Ted Genoways |
| Founded | Spring, 1925 |
| Headquarters | Charlottesville, VA |
| ISSN | 0042-675X |
| Website | http://www.vqronline.org/ |
The Virginia Quarterly Review is a literary magazine in the United States. [1] It was founded in 1925 by James Southall Wilson, at the request of University of Virginia president E. A. Alderman. The self-described "National Journal of Literature and Discussion" is a quarterly publication from the University of Virginia that includes poetry, fiction, book reviews, essays, photography, and comics from some of the nation's most notable writers, photographers and artists.
As of 2007, poems from the magazine have appeared in the 1990, 1993, 2000, 2005, 2006 and 2007 editions of The Best American Poetry series.[2]
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[edit] Establishment
In 1915, President Alderman announced his intentions to create a university publication that would be "an organ of liberal opinion":
"I take leave again to bring before you a dream: a magazine solidly based, thoughtfully and wisely managed and controlled, not seeking to give news, but to become a great serious publication wherein shall be reflected the calm thought of the best men."[3]
He appealed to financial backers of the university for financial contributions, and over the next nine years an endowment was raised to fund the publication while it became established. Alderman announced the establishment of The Virginia Quarterly Review in the fall of 1924, saying it would provide:
"[I]ndependent thought in the fields of society, politics, and literature...in no sense a local or sectional publication...[but inviting] as contributors to its pages men and women everywhere who think through things and have some quality of expressing their thoughts in appealing and arresting fashion."[4]
The inaugural issue was released in spring of 1925, and the 160-page volume featured writing by Gamaliel Bradford, Archibald Henderson, Luigi Pirandello, Witter Bynner, William Cabell Bruce, among two dozen other notable, mostly southern, writers.
[edit] Notable contributors
[edit] Essays
[edit] Fiction
[edit] Poetry
[edit] Editors
- James Southall Wilson 1925-1931
- Stringfellow Barr 1931-1937
- Lambert Davis 1937-1938
- Lawrence Lee 1938-1942
- Archibald Bolling Shepperson 1942
- Charlotte Kohler 1942-1974
- Staige D. Blackford 1974-2003
- Ted Genoways 2003-
[edit] Notes
- ^ O'Rourke, M: "Why the Virginia Quarterly Review Matters", 'Slate', March 17, 2006.
- ^ [1]Search page result for "The Virginia Quarterly Review" at the Best American Poetry series Web site, accessed October 14, 2007
- ^ Wilson, James (1925). "Virginia Quarterly Review and Its Contributors". Virginia Quarterly Review 1 (1): ii–iii.
- ^ Wilson, James (1925). "Virginia Quarterly Review and Its Contributors". Virginia Quarterly Review 1 (1): ii–iii.
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