The Hiram Poetry Review is an American literary magazine

Literary magazine

A literary magazine is a periodical devoted to literature in a broad sense. Literary magazines usually publish short stories, poetry and essays along with literary criticism, book reviews, biographical profiles of authors, interviews and letters...

 founded in 1966 and based at the Hiram College

Hiram College

Hiram College is a private liberal arts college located in Hiram, Ohio. Founded by Amos Sutton Hayden of the Disciples of Christ Church in 1850, the institution has, since its first days, been nonsectarian and coeducational, and throughout its existence Hiram College has sustained this egalitarian...

. The journal publishes original poetry, poetry reviews and interviews with established poets. Work that has been published in the Hiram Poetry Review has been reprinted in the Puschart Prize Anthology. The journal played an important role in establishing the career of Charles Bukowski

Charles Bukowski

Henry Charles Bukowski was an American poet, novelist and short story writer. His writing was influenced by the social, cultural and economic ambience of his home city of Los Angeles...

, whose work appeared frequenlty in the journal between 1966 and 1969.

Notable contributors

• Jacob M. Appel
  Jacob M. Appel
  Jacob M. Appel is an American author, bioethicist and social critic. He is best known for his short stories, his work as a playwright, and his writing in the fields of reproductive ethics, organ donation, neuroethics and euthanasia....
  
  
• Russell Banks
  Russell Banks
  Russell Banks is an American writer of fiction and poetry.- Biography :Russell Banks was born in Newton, Massachusetts on March 28, 1940. He attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He lives in upstate New York, and has been named a New York State Author. He is also...
  
  
• Charles Bukowski
  Charles Bukowski
  Henry Charles Bukowski was an American poet, novelist and short story writer. His writing was influenced by the social, cultural and economic ambience of his home city of Los Angeles...
  
  
• Lyn Coffin
  Lyn Coffin
  Lyn Coffin is an American poet, fiction writer, playwright, editor, and translator.-Biography:Coffin was born on Long Island, New York. She graduated Phi Beta Kappa from the University of Michigan in 1965. She holds Master's degrees in English, TESL , and Social Work...
  
  
• Norman Hoegberg

• Christina Kallery
• Robert Lax
  Robert Lax
  Robert Lax was an American poet, known in particular for his association with famed 20th century Trappist monk and writer Thomas Merton. A third friend of his youth, whose work sheds light on both Lax and Merton, was Ad Reinhardt. During the latter period of his life, Lax resided on the island of...
  
  
• Virgil Suarez
  Virgil Suárez
  Virgil Suárez is a Cuban American poet and novelist. He is a professor of English at Florida State University. He is one of the leading writers in the Cuban American community, known for such novels as Latin Jazz and Going Under....
  
  
• Don Winter