The Lyric (magazine)

The Lyric

Editor	Jean Mellichamp Milliken (2001–)
Former editors	Leslie Mellichamp (1997–2001) Ruby Altizer Roberts (1952–1977) Virginia Kent Cummins (1949–1952) Leigh Hanes (1929–1949) John Richard Moreland (1921–1929)
Categories	Traditional poetry
Publisher	The Lyric Foundation (1949–) Norfolk Poets' Club (1921–1928)
First issue	1921; 103 years ago (1921)
Country	USA
Based in	Norfolk, Virginia, U.S. New York City, New York, U.S.
Website	http://www.thelyricmagazine.com/

The Lyric is the oldest extant literary magazine in North America devoted to formal poetry.

The journal was established by Norfolk-based poet John R. Moreland in 1921, and was published by the Norfolk Poets' Club until 1928. By 1949 it had moved to New York City,^[1] and was being published by the Lyric Foundation, an organization founded by the magazine's third editor, Virginia Kent Cummins. After Cummins' death editorship passed to Ruby Altizer Roberts, poet laureate of Virginia.^[2]

Contributors

The journal has featured works by the following notable poets:

• Henry Bellamann
• Gamaliel Bradford
• Alma Denny
• Emily Dickinson
• Robert Hillyer
• Aline Kilmer
• Walter de la Mare

References

1. Peter Brooker and Andrew Thacker, The Oxford Critical and Cultural History of Modernist Magazines: Volume II, North America, 1894-1960 (2012), p. 521.
2. Crawford, Meriah L. (April 7, 2011). "Ruby Altizer Roberts (1907–2004)". Encyclopedia Virginia. Virginia Foundation for the Humanities. Retrieved January 3, 2014.

External links

• The Lyric