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Tar River Poetry is aliterary journal published byEast Carolina University (ECU). Published twice a year (fall and spring), the 64-page journal consists of submitted written works ofpoetry, criticalessays, andbook reviews.[1] The journal is named for theTar River, which runs throughGreenville, NC (home of ECU). It was first published in 1968.
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The journal grew out of an earlier publication,Tar River Poets, originally edited by ECU English professor and Director of the ECU Poetry Forum Vernon Ward.Tar River Poets published members of the Poetry Forum only (that is, poets local to Greenville, NC). Upon Prof. Ward's retirement, poetPeter Makuck took over the editorship and renamed the journal, opening it to outside submissions and publishing the first issue asTar River Poetry in November 1978, but retaining the numbering system of the earlier journal (thus the first issue with the new name was published as issue 18, number 1). The 30th Anniversary issue, published in December 2008, included an interview with Makuck.
Tar River Poetry has published many of the best-known American poets of the late 20th and early 21st century, including Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winnersClaudia Emerson,William Stafford,Louis Simpson,Carolyn Kizer,Henry Taylor, andA.R. Ammons, and many other well-known poets includingSharon Olds,Leslie Norris,William Matthews,Albert Goldbarth, andPatricia Goedicke.
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