“Boulevard [is one of the eight magazines] young writers and poets, of course, pay attention to...since that’s where they hope to publish their work.”
History
Boulevard was founded in 1984 in New York City and incorporated in 1985 as a nonprofit by writer Richard Burgin. Its first issue, published January 2, 1986, featured fiction by Nobel laureate Isaac Bashevis Singer, poetry by Kenneth Koch, and interviews with renowned composers Philip Glass and Steve Reich and an essay on John Dos Passos and the Soviet Cinema. By its third issue in 1987, Boulevard had attained national bookstore distribution, which continues into the present.
Boulevard has published works by generations of important writers and critics, including Hanif Abdurraqib, John Ashbery, Ann Beattie, Billy Collins, Mark Doty, Jennifer Egan, Donald Hall, Alice Hoffman, David Mamet, Adrian Matejka, Emi Nietfeld, Joyce Carol Oates, Carl Phillips, Francine Prose, Lee Ann Roripaugh, Sanjena Sathian, Gerald Stern, Mark Strand, Saadi Youssef, and others. Poet laureate Daniel Hoffman has called Boulevard “One of the half-dozen best literary journals.”
Boulevard’s headquarters moved from New York to Philadelphia in 1989; Drexel University published the magazine from 1991 to 1995. In the fall of 1996, the magazine moved to St. Louis, and St. Louis University became its publisher, an arrangement that lasted until 2013. Burgin edited the magazine until 2015, followed by Jessica Rogen.
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Publisher
Jessica Rogen
Editor
Dusty Freund
Managing Editor
Griffin Reed
Deputy Editor
Molly Harris
Natural Bridge Managing Editor
Kimberly Potthast
Poetry Editor
Peter Grandbois
Senior Editors
Edmund de Chasca, John Dalton, Shane Seeley
Associate Editor
Sally Van Doren
Assistant Editors
Janee J. Baugher, Yoni Hammer-Kossoy, Bruce Parker
Founding Editor
Richard Burgin
Publication Design
Shanie Latham
Contributing Editors
Rene Martinez, Brian Simoneau
Readers
Elizabeth Alphonse, Jill Birdsall, Aurora Blanchard, Megan Blankenship, Dana Delibovi, Emmalee Hagarman, Joseph Hess, Jarohn Johnson, Bobby Kanter, Kelsey Ann Kerr, Iryna Klishch, Jerrod Laber, Sabina Latifovic, Jet McDonald, Catherine Mros, Evan Richards, Bri Super, Emily Titsworth, Carolina VonKampen, Timothy Wombles, Taylor Zhang
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