Volume 109, Number 3/4

Poet Lore’s special 125th Anniversary issue (Fall/Winter 2014) opens with a chorus of poems on race—from reportage to meditations on labor, marriage, and folklore—and includes work by emerging and established poets (Marge Piercy, Alice Notley, Terrance Hayes, Cornelius Eady, Leslie Ullman, Joseph Zaccardi, Traci Brimhall, Linda Pastan, Fred Shaw, and Franke Varca among them). The prose section, a collection of historic and personal perspectives on Poet Lore, presents an essay by scholar Melissa Girard, who describes Poet Lore’s editors’ prescient treatment of the work of 19th-century African American poet Paul Laurence Dunbar (pictured on the cover).