Yale Anglers' Journal

The Yale Anglers' Journal (YAJ), founded in 1996, features new and reprinted prose, poetry, art, and photography about the sport of fishing.

The publication is edited, published and produced by Yale University undergraduates on campus under the supervision of a faculty advisor. Submissions are accepted from anyone. The magazine has featured work from James Prosek, Nick Lyons, Ernest Schweibert, Howell Raines, Jimmy Carter, Robert Behnke, Elliot Richardson, Roderick L. Haig-Brown, and Richard Brautigan, and lesser-known writers.

The YAJ is published bi-annually with yearly subscriptions offered at $20 per year, two-year subscriptions for $30, and back issues sold for $12 each. All subscriptions and individual orders are fulfilled by undergraduates. YAJ issues are perfect-bound paperbacks with just over 100 pages of text and images printed on a digital press in black-and-white with a four-color cover. The trim size is 5 3/4" × 8 3/4".

As of 2006, it has about 1,000 subscribers. It also has patrons, an editorial board, and advisors.

External links

[http://www.yaleanglersjournal.com Yaleanglersjournal.com]

[http://yalepress.yale.edu/yupbooks/book.asp?isbn=9780300126303 Tight Lines] Ten Years of the Yale Anglers' Journal

Illustrated by [http://www.troutsite.com James Prosek] ; Edited by Joseph Furia, Wyatt Golding, David Haltom, [http://www.stevehayhurst.com Steven Hayhurst] , Joseph Kingsbery, and [http://www.alexissurovov.com Alexis Surovov] ; With a Foreword by Nick Lyons; With a Preface by James Prosek and Joseph Furia

Since the first copy of the Yale Anglers’ Journal appeared in 1996, readers with an interest in fish and fishing have opened the pages of each issue with anticipation and delight. YAJ’s founders suspected that others would share their passion for literature and art related to angling; what they had not fully anticipated was the intensity of enthusiasm from readers and writers everywhere. Perhaps they shouldn’t have been surprised. Statistics tell us that 35 million Americans regularly fish, and among their numbers are presidents and students, old and young, the famous and the unknown, the busy and the idle.

This anthology presents a selection of 50 stories, recollections, essays, and poems featured in the Yale Anglers’ Journal during its first remarkable decade. Accompanied by original artwork from James Prosek, these writings all celebrate fish and the experience of fishing, yet they could hardly be more diverse. Some evoke a nostalgic earlier time, others vibrate with excitement, and still others offer a humorous view of life’s surprises. The contributions come from well-known current writers, little-known newcomers, and even authors of antiquity, such as Homer, who had a thing to say about fishing. Anyone who has felt a line pull tight, or is curious to know why the experience has inspired anglers throughout human history, will want to open the pages of this inviting book.

“So here is where I came out as I entered my fiftieth year….I believe in a balanced life. I do not want to fish all the time….But I have learned that I am also a person who has to be able to go fishing whenever I can and for as long as I want to go.”—from “Amare O Pescare,” by Howell Raines

James Prosek and Joseph Furia cofounded the Yale Anglers’ Journal. Joseph Furia, Steven Hayhurst, [http://www.alexis-surovov.net Alexis Surovov] , David Haltom, Wyatt Golding, and Joseph Kingsbery have served as editors of the journal.

For more information on the Yale Anglers’ Journal, including ordering of subscriptions,go to www.yaleanglersjournal.com, email [e-mail], or write Editor, Yale Anglers’ Journal, P.O. Box 204048, New Haven, CT 06520-4048.