New American Writing

{{Short description|American literary magazine}} {{more citations needed|date=September 2018}} {{Use mdy dates|date=March 2025}} {{Infobox magazine | logo = | logo_size = | image_file =  | image_size =  | image_alt = | image_caption = | editor = {{hlist | Paul Hoover | Maxine Chernoff}} | editor_title = Editors | previous_editor = | staff_writer = | photographer = | category = Literary magazine | frequency = Annual | circulation = | publisher = | founder = | founded = {{start date and age|1986}} | firstdate =  | company = OINK! Press | country = United States | based = | language = English | website = {{official URL}} | issn = 0893-7842 | oclc = }}

'''''New American Writing''''' is an annual American literary magazine emphasizing contemporary American poetry, including a range of innovative contemporary writing.<ref>{{cite web|title=Top 50 Literary Magazines and Metazines|url=http://www.webdelsol.com/index-new-magazines2.htm|work=Web Del Sol|access-date=February 10, 2016}}</ref> ''New American Writing'' is published by OINK! Press, a nonprofit organization. The magazine appears in early June each year. It was first published in 1986.<ref name=History>[https://www.newamericanwriting.com/history.html "History"], ''New American Writing''.</ref>

==Editors== The publication is edited by poets Paul Hoover, editor of ''Postmodern American Poetry'', and Maxine Chernoff.

==Contributors== John Ashbery, Robert Creeley, Charles Simic, Jorie Graham, Denise Levertov, Hilda Morley, August Kleinzahler, Ann Lauterbach, Ned Rorem, Wanda Coleman, Nathaniel Mackey, Barbara Guest, Marjorie Perloff, Michael Palmer, Lyn Hejinian, and Charles Bernstein.

==Cover art==

Each issue of the magazine features cover art by leading artists, including Alex Katz, Robert Mapplethorpe, Jennifer Bartlett, Elizabeth Murray, and Fairfield Porter.<ref name=History />

==Other anthologies== Work from the magazine has appeared in the annual ''The Best American Poetry'' series and also in the annual Pushcart Anthology.

==Special issues== * Supplement of Australian poetry edited by John Tranter (No. 4) * Censorship and the Arts (No. 5) * Supplement of innovative poetry from Great Britain edited by Ric Caddel * Supplement of Brazilian poetry edited by Régis Bonvicino (No. 18)

==See also== {{Portal|Poetry}} * List of literary magazines

==References== {{Reflist}}

==External links== * {{Official website}}

Category:Annual magazines published in the United States Category:Magazines established in 1986 Category:Magazines published in San Francisco Category:Poetry magazines published in the United States Category:San Francisco State University