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The Formalist: A Journal of Metrical Poetry was a literary periodical, founded and edited byWilliam Baer,^[1] which was published twice a year from 1990 to the fall/winter issue of 2004.^[2] The headquarters of the magazine was inEvansville, Indiana.^[3]

The Formalist published contemporary, metrical verse. Poets whose work has appeared in the journal include:Howard Nemerov,Richard Wilbur,Derek Walcott,Mona Van Duyn,Donald Justice,James Merrill,Maxine Kumin,Karl Shapiro,W. S. Merwin,May Swenson,W. D. Snodgrass,Louis Simpson,John Updike,Fred Chappell, andJohn Hollander.

From 1994 to 2005The Formalist awarded theHoward Nemerov Sonnet Award.

• New Formalism
• Measure

• "The Formalist". Archived fromthe original on February 17, 2007.

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