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Sagetrieb:
Poetry and Poetics After Modernism

  • "Sagetrieb has a real chance to be that rarest of creatures, a magazine for which a genuine need exists and which, therefore, has an unquestionable right to our attention and energy."
    --Michael André Bernstein
  • "The need for such a magazine is obvious."
    --Jonathan Williams

"Sagetrieb" is a word coined by Ezra Pound to denote a humane tradition in music and poetry gleaned from the past and passed on to the future.

Interviews with:

  • Denise Levertov
  • Paul Metcalf
  • Robert Creeley
  • George Oppen
  • Joel Oppenheimer
  • Carl Rakosi
  • Celia Zukofsky
  • Michael Palmer

Special Issues:

  • Robert Duncan
  • William Bronk
  • Kenneth Rexroth
  • Marianne Moore
  • Robert Creeley
  • William Carlos Williams
  • Canadian Poetry
  • Charles Reznikoff
  • H.D.
  • Paul Metcalf
  • Intersection of the Lyrical and the Philosophical
  • Lorine Niedecker

Contributors include:

  • Charles Bernstein
  • Robin Blaser
  • George Bowering
  • Michael André Bernstein
  • Jonathan Williams
  • Stephen Fredman
  • Paul Christensen
  • Andrei Codrescu
  • Cid Corman
  • Robert Creeley
  • Louis Dudek
  • Rachel Blau DuPlessis
  • Susan Stanford Friedman
  • Hugh Kenner
  • Paul Mariani
  • Timothy Materer
  • Marjorie Perloff
  • Cyrena N. Pondrom
  • M. L. Rosenthal
  • Jerome Rothenberg
  • Rae Armantrout
  • Peter Quartermain
  • Norman Finkelstein
  • Ron Silliman
  • John Shoptaw
  • Krzysztof Ziarek
  • Michael Heller
  • Ronald Johnson
  • Theodore Enslin
  • and others

Subscription Information:

2000 individual $20.00; institute $37.00; foreign (including Canadian) subscriptions, please add $5.00 per year.

Many back issues are available. Please contact us for a price list.

Manuscript submission guidelines: SAGETRIEB

  1. Documentation

    Contributors are asked to document their manuscripts with a "Works Cited" list plus parenthetical internal references. (Footnotes should be used only for substantive information.) See The MLA Style Manual (1985), and the MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers 4th edition (1995) (this latter in even greater detail) for ample directions, information on, and examples of this "Works Cited" plus in-text references documentation.

  2. Manuscripts

    Please submit two printed copies of your manuscript, in addition to a computer disk copy. We use primarily Microsoft Word for Macintosh. However, we can readily convert from PC versions of Microsoft Word and from any version of WordPerfect. If you can submit your disk copy in any of these forms, please do so, as you may thereby save us and yourself some time. But if you are unable to do so, please be sure to include a clean printed copy, with substantial margins and printed on a laser printer, so that we can try to scan in your manuscript text.

  3. Permissions

    Contributors of manuscripts using unpublished materials must secure permission for their publication in Sagetrieb . In your request for publication permission, please identify the manuscript(s), typescript(s), and/or letter(s) your essay cites, the extent of the quoted materials it uses, and the library(ies) in which the materials are located. On being granted publication permission, send a copy of the permission letter to Sagetrieb.

Betsy Graves Rose
National Poetry Foundation
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University of Maine
Orono, ME 04469-5752
(207) 581-3814

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