River Styx Magazine

The River Styx Magazine was launched in St Louis, Missouri, U.S.A. in 1975 after earlier poetry readings and musical sessions among enthusiasts had begun in the early 1970s.

The magazine

The magazine is produced three times a year and is available in bookshops and other outlets, and by subscription. It has developed into a journal of poetry, fiction, essays, interviews and artFact|date=March 2008.

The magazine prides itself on being the first journal to publish some of the most important writers of our time, from U.S. Poet Laureates (Howard Nemerov, Mona Van Duyn, Rita Dove, Robert Hass and Ted Kooser), to Pulitzer Prize-Winners (Yusef Komunyakaa), to Nobel Laureates (Derek Walcott and Czeslaw Milosz). ["Tale of Two Richards" "St. Louis Post-Despatch" October 9, 2005. ] Other recent contributors of note include Richard W. Burgin, Jacob M. Appel and Mary Troy.

The magazine has always devoted several pages each issue to artists. Recent examples include: Lynda Frese, Emmet Gowan, John Slaughter, Patte Loper, Birney Imes, Virginia Beahan and Laura McPhee, Deborah Luster, Dana Moore, Benedict Fernandez, and Frank Shaw.

Awards

The magazine itself has won several Stanley Hanks Prizes, awards from Coordinating Council of Literary Magazines as well as grants and support from the National Endowment for the Arts, Missouri Arts Council, Regional Arts Commission, Missouri Humanities Council, and Arts and Education.

Staff

*Editor: Richard Newman
*Managing Editor: Michael Nye
*Senior Editors: Quincy Troupe and Michael Castro
*Art Editor: Christina Shmigel

Poetry readings

Readings continue to take place each month, at Duff's Restaurant in Nth Euclid St, St Louis, at 7.30pm on the 3rd Monday of the month.

References

External links

* [http://www.riverstyx.org River Styx Magazine]