02/06/2024
Closing Note
I appreciate all the kind comments about the new issue of VALPARAISO POETRY REVIEW appearing this week. Following the Spring/Summer 2024 release, the 50th issue that marks completion of 25 years in publishing, I have made the difficult decision to suspend further production. I am proud that VPR has presented so many fine poems and book reviews by a wide range of authors over two and a half decades. Please read my editor's note of gratitude about the history of VPR:
https://www.valpo.edu/valparaiso-poetry-review/2024/05/23/editors-note-of-gratitude/
That unique position and necessary purpose VPR held in its early years has changed because of the positive progression of Internet technology providing today’s vast array of opportunities for online publication or distribution of poetry. Consequently, the journal is now closed to new submissions; however, everyone is invited to browse the contents of all issues, about 1400 poems and nearly 300 pieces of prose, which will remain available in the archives. Thank you, again, to all contributors, readers, and other supporters throughout the years!
—Edward Byrne, Editor of VALPARAISO POETRY REVIEW
Twenty-Five Years of Valparaiso Poetry Review I am pleased to present this new release of Valparaiso Poetry Review. Volume XXV, Number 2 closes 25 years of the journal’s publication. Begun in 1999, VPR has existed as one of the longest running online literary journals. During its quarter century t...
