The Gamut

The Gamut

"The Gamut" (founded in 1998) is a student publication at Harvard University devoted exclusively to poetry. Weekly meetings start with the reading aloud of published poems and continue on to the reading and discussion of student submissions. All poems are considered anonymously, and each must pass two rounds of voting in order to be published. Although the board of the magazine comprises only a few students, all Harvard undergraduates are welcome to participate in the editorial meetings.

To mark the publication of each new issue, "The Gamut" holds a public reading in which the poets published in that issue read their work. Beginning in the spring of 2006, the editors decided to reserve one half of each issue's content for the winning submission of an annual chapbook contest.

Traditionally, Harvard has been home to many of the most important American poets, including T. S. Eliot, Robert Lowell, John Brooks Wheelwright, Wallace Stevens, E. E. Cummings and John Ashbery. These days, poets associated with the University include Seamus Heaney, Jorie Graham and Peter Sacks. Poetry is also flourishing in the undergraduate community through the work of publications such as "The Gamut" and "The Harvard Advocate" and popular haunts like the Woodberry Poetry Room and the Grolier Poetry Book Shop at Harvard.

External links

* [http://www.hcs.harvard.edu/gamut Official Website of The Gamut]
* [http://www.thecrimson.com/article.aspx?ref=512123 Article on The Gamut's Chapbook Contest]
* [http://www.thecrimson.com/article.aspx?ref=516883 Article on the contemporary poetry scene at Harvard College; mentions The Gamut]


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