The formalist
| The formalist
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| description | American literary magazine |
| First edition | 1990 |
| attitude | 2004 |
| Frequency of publication | half-yearly |
| Web link | evansville.edu |
| ISSN (print) | 1046-7874 |
The Formalist was an American literary magazine .
The journal was founded in 1990 by the American professor William Baer and published every six months until 2004. It was dedicated to poems in the style of the New Formalism , that is, the revival of form-conscious poetry .
Poets who published their works in The Formalist included: Howard Nemerov , Richard Wilbur , Derek Walcott , Mona Van Duyn , Donald Justice , James Merrill , Maxine Kumin , Karl Shapiro , W. S. Merwin , May Swenson , W. D. Snodgrass , Louis Simpson , John Updike , Fred Chappell and John Hollander .
From 1994 to 2005, The Formalist awarded the Howard Nemerov Sonnet Award for poetry in the form of a sonnet . Since 2005, the winners of the award have been announced in Measure magazine .