"Aristophanes at the Woodpile"
by Robert Chute
Beloit Poetry Journal
Winter 2005/06

Robert Chute:

Robert Chute is Professor Emeritus of Biology at Bates College.

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"The BPJ has remained remarkably consistent in its independent and eclectic editorial policy, its high standards, its international scope, its selection process, and its format. It has never missed an issue. The editors do the preliminary screening. The editorial board meets every three months to select an issue from the best poems that have arrived over the transom, a process that culminates in our reading each poem still under consideration aloud in a marathon session — fortified by bread and soup and love of the craft.

We believe we owe much of the vitality of the BPJ to this selection process. We have been fortunate to be the first or early publisher of such poets as Galway Kinnell, A.R. Ammons, Anne Sexton, Sharon Olds, Maxine Kumin, W.S. Merwin, James Dickey, Philip Larkin, Charles Bukowski, Philip Booth, Adrienne Rich, Philip Levine, Eleanor Wilner, Lola Haskins, and more recently Sherman Alexie, Laura Kasischke, Forest Hamer, and Mary Leader. And we're betting that several poets we premiered in our Poets Under 25 chapbook will become fixtures in the literary landscape. Poems first published in the BPJ have been included in recent Pushcart prize volumes and in The Best American Poems." (Quoted from, Beloit Poetry Journal Then and Now.)

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