Parthenon West Review, an exciting bi-annual poetry journal, aims to create a place of unification for poets of many styles. San Francisco-based editors David Holler and Chad Sweeney try to create a conversation across the pages by including a diverse range of voices.
Parthenon West Review 2 features 176 pages of poetry and translation, including new work by Pulitzer Prize-winner Carl Dennis and American Book Award winner Maurice Kenny.
This issue also features poetry by Sean Mclain Brown, Lucille Lang Day, Mary DeNardo, Stacy Doris, Geoffrey Dyer, Alex Green, Roxane Beth Johnson, Stephen Kessler, Aaron Green La Fleur, Joseph Lease, Sarah Lenoue (translating Esther Tellermann), Julia Levine, Robert Lipton, Sarah Maclay, Toni Mirosevich, William Olsen, Sabina Piersol (translating Nobel Prize winner Salvatore Quasimodo), Dean Rader, Monica Regan, Clare Rossini, Richard Silberg, John Oliver Simon (translating Jorge Fernandez Granados and Jose Manuel Arango), Ed Smallfield, Pony Smith, Chris Stroffolino, Judith Tannenbaum, Steven and Maja Teref (translating Novica Tadic), Truong Tran, Sharon Venezio, Virginia Westover and Chet Wiener.