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, 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

Natural Bridge Managing Editor

Kimberly Potthast

Poetry Editor

Peter Grandbois

Senior Editors

Edmund de Chasca, John Dalton, Shane Seeley

Associate Editors

Molly Harris, Laura Kessler, Ryan Smith, Sally Van Doren

Assistant Editors

Janee J. Baugher, Yoni Hammer-Kossoy, Bruce Parker

Founding Editor

Richard Burgin

Interviews Editor

Ryan Krull

Publication Design

Shanie Latham

Contributing Editors

Rene Martinez, Brian Simoneau

Readers

Elizabeth Alphonse, Jill Birdsall, Aurora Blanchard, Megan Blankenship, Jelena Borojevic, Mariah Gese, Emmalee Hagarman, Kelsey Ann Kerr, Iryna Klishch, John Kuelper, Mackenzie Lane, Willie Lin, Jet McDonald, Catherine Mros, Dawn Sperber, Dana Sprehe, Carolina VonKampen, Timothy Wombles, Taylor Zhang

Intern

Joseph Hess

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