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Hambone is a small literary magazine that has published major poets. The magazine is edited by poet Nathaniel Mackey.

Writing in The Nation magazine, John Palattella described Hambone as "an indispensable little magazine that for more than a quarter-century has featured work by everyone from Sun Ra, Robert Duncan, and Beverly Dahlen to Edward Kamau Brathwaite and Susan Howe."

History and profile

The magazine's first issue was published in the spring of 1974 as a group effort by the Committee on Black Performing Arts at Stanford University. It was dormant for several years before Mackey revived it and changed its direction. The second issue appeared in the fall of 1982, with Mackey as sole editor and publisher. It included work by Sun Ra, fiction by Clarence Major, Wilson Harris and poems by Robert Duncan, Beverly Dahlen, Jay Wright, and Kamau Brathwaite. Since then it has appeared irregularly, at the rate of an issue every few years. In a 1991 interview, Mackey said, "Whether it will go on my whole life? I'm pretty sure that it won't. I don't know how much longer it will go on." Hambone 22 was published in 2019.

Notes

1. Andrew Joron (April 2013). "Hambone: Destination Out". Poetry Foundation. Retrieved November 1, 2015.
2. Palattella, John (September 18, 2006). "Poetry, From Noun to Verb". The Nation. Retrieved January 29, 2007.
3. Mackey, Nathaniel (Spring 2000). "Editing Hambone". Callaloo. 23 (2): 665–668. doi:10.1353/cal.2000.0089. Retrieved January 29, 2007.
4. ^ Funkhouser, Christopher (March 1995). "Interview with Nathaniel Mackey". Callaloo. 18 (4). Retrieved October 19, 2009.
5. Hambone 22

External links

• Hambone website

• 1974 establishments in California
• Annual magazines published in the United States
• Literary magazines published in the United States
• Poetry magazines published in the United States
• Irregularly published magazines published in the United States
• Magazines established in 1974
• Magazines published in California