''32 Poems Magazine'' (''32 Poems'') is a literary magazine, founded in the American states of

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and

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in 2003, that has published poems from writers around the world.

About

This independent magazine, founded by

Deborah Ager Deborah Ager is an American poet, essayist, and editor. Life Deborah Ager founded the poetry magazine known as ''32 poems'' or ''32 Poems Magazine'' in 2003 with the poet John Poch. She was educated at the University of Maryland (B.A.) and the ...

and

John Poch John Poch (born 1966 in Erie, Pennsylvania) is an American poet, fiction writer, and critic. Biography John Poch holds an M.F.A. in Poetry from the University of Florida and a Ph.D. in English from the University of North Texas. He was the in ...

, made its debut at the 2003

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Conference in

Baltimore, Maryland Baltimore ( , locally: or ) is the List of municipalities in Maryland, most populous city in the U.S. state of Maryland, fourth most populous city in the Mid-Atlantic (United States), Mid-Atlantic, and List of United States cities by popula ...

and publishes a winter issue in November and a spring issue in April. In the beginning, ''32 Poems'' published only poetry. Since at least the Fall of 2013 it also publishes prose. Each issue contains 32 poems for a total of 64 poems published per year. Board members include: C. Dale Young, B.H. Fairchild,

, and Grace Schulman. ''32 Poems'' is currently edited by George David Clark.

Contributors

Contributors have included:

Billy Collins William James Collins (born March 22, 1941) is an American poet, appointed as Poet Laureate of the United States from 2001 to 2003. He is a Distinguished Professor at Lehman College of the City University of New York (retired, 2016). Collins ...

Brigit Pegeen Kelly Brigit Pegeen Kelly (1951 – October 14, 2016) was an American poet and teacher. Born in Palo Alto, California, Kelly grew up in southern Indiana and lived much of her adult life in central Illinois. An intensely private woman, little is known ...

Lydia Davis Lydia Davis (born July 15, 1947) is an American short story writer, novelist, essayist, and translator from French and other languages, who often writes short (one or two pages long) short stories. Davis has produced several new translations of ...

Ricardo Pau-Llosa Ricardo Pau-Llosa (born May 17, 1954 in Havana, Cuba, lived in the United States since December 1960) is a Cuban- American poet, art critic of Latin American art in the US and Europe, art collector, and author of short fiction. Early life and ...

, A.E. Stallings, William Logan,

G.C. Waldrep G. C. Waldrep (born George Calvin Waldrep III; 1968) is an American poet and historian. Biography Waldrep was born in South Boston, Virginia. He earned undergraduate and doctoral degrees in history at Harvard University and Duke University, resp ...

, Rosemary Winslow,

Jeannine Hall Gailey Jeannine Hall Gailey (born April 30, 1973) is an American poet. She has published five books of poetry and two books of non-fiction. Her work focuses on pop culture, science and science fiction, fairy tales, and mythology. Early life and educati ...

, Chad Davidson, Paul Guest,

Bob Hicok Bob Hicok (born 1960 Grand Ledge, Michigan) is an American poet. Life Hicok is a professor of creative writing at Virginia Tech. He is from Michigan and before teaching owned and ran a successful automotive die design business. He formerly taught ...

H. L. Hix Harvey Lee Hix (born 1960), is an American poetry, American poet and academic. Hix is an author of books of poetry, criticism and essays and has been awarded a fellowship from the NEA. He has also won the KCAI Teaching Excellence Award and the T. ...

James Hoch James A. Hoch is a microbiologist who is the head of the Division of Cellular Biology in the Department of Molecular and Experimental Medicine at the Scripps Research Institute. In the last 40 years his work has focused on dissecting the signal tr ...

Lia Purpura Lia Purpura (born February 22, 1964, Mineola, New York) is an American poet, writer and educator. She is the author of four collections of poems (''King Baby'', ''Stone Sky Lifting'', ''The Brighter the Veil'', ''It Shouldn't Have Been Beautiful' ...

Daniel Nester Daniel Murlin Nester (born February 29, 1968, in Portsmouth, Virginia) is an American writer, editor, and poet. Biography Nester was raised in Maple Shade Township, New Jersey. He attended high school at Camden Catholic High School in Cherry Hi ...

Dan O'Brien Daniel Dion O'Brien (born July 18, 1966) is an American former decathlete and Olympic gold medalist. He won the Olympic title in 1996, three consecutive world championships (1991, 1993, 1995), and set the world record in 1992. Early life O'Br ...

Robin Beth Schaer Robin Beth Schaer is an American poet. Biography Born in 1971, she graduated from Colgate University and Columbia University, and has taught at Columbia University, The New School, Cooper Union, Oberlin College and worked at the Academy of Americ ...

Amit Majmudar Amit Majmudar (born 1979) is an American novelist and poet. In 2015, he was named the first Poet Laureate of Ohio. Life Majmudar, a son of Indian immigrants, grew up in the Cleveland area. He earned a BS at the University of Akron and an MD at No ...

Lisa Russ Spaar Lisa Russ Spaar is a contemporary American poet, professor, and essayist. She is currently a professor of English and Creative Writing at the University of Virginia and the director of the Area Program in Poetry Writing. She is the author of nu ...

Bernadette Geyer Bernadette K. Geyer (born June 16, 1968) is a poet, writer, translator, and editor in Berlin, Berlin, Germany. Life She graduated from Allegheny College. She worked for the US Fuel Cell Council, and was deputy director of Fuel Cells 2000; she ...

, J.E. Pitts,

Stephen Graham Jones Stephen Graham Jones is a Blackfoot Native American author of experimental fiction, horror fiction, crime fiction, and science fiction. Although his recent work is often classified as horror, he is celebrated for applying more "literary" stylings ...

Katie Umans Katie is an English feminine name. It is a form Katherine (given name), Katherine, Kate (given name), Kate, Caitlin, Kathleen (given name), Kathleen, Katey and their related forms. It is frequently used on its own. People Sports *Katie Boulter ( ...

Averill Curdy Averill Ann Curdy is an American poet and academic. Life She received her MFA from the University of Houston and her PhD from the University of Missouri. Curdy worked as an arts administrator and as a marketing manager and technical editor. Her ...

, Steven D. Schroeder,

Christopher Cessac Christopher is the English version of a Europe-wide name derived from the Greek name Χριστόφορος (''Christophoros'' or '' Christoforos''). The constituent parts are Χριστός (''Christós''), "Christ" or "Anointed", and φέρει� ...

Katie Chaple Katie is an English feminine name. It is a form Katherine, Kate, Caitlin, Kathleen, Katey and their related forms. It is frequently used on its own. People Sports *Katie Boulter (born 1996), British tennis player *Katie Clark (born 1994), Brit ...

, Emily Walter, Diana Smith Bolton,

Kelli Russell Agodon Kelli Russell Agodon (born in Seattle) is an American poet, writer, and editor. She is the cofounder of ''Two Sylvias Press'' and she serves on the poetry faculty at the Rainier Writing Workshop, a low-residency MFA program at Pacific Lutheran Uni ...

, Amanda Auchter,

Andrea Hollander Budy Andrea Hollander (born April 28, 1947 in Berlin, Germany) is an American poet. Her most recent poetry collection is ''Blue Mistaken for Sky'' (Autumn House Press, 2018). Her work has appeared in ''New Ohio Review'', ''Poetry'', ''The Georgia Re ...

Jacqueline Kolosov Jacqueline Kolosov (born in Chicago) is an American poet, children's book author, and professor. Her most recent collection of poetry is ''Modigliani's Muse'' ( WordTech Communications, 2009), and her most recent young adult novel is ''A Sweet Dis ...

, Sebastian Matthews,

Daniele Pantano Daniele Pantano (born February 10, 1976) is a poet, essayist, literary translator, artist, editor, and scholar. He was born in Langenthal, Switzerland, of Sicilian and German parentage. Pantano holds degrees in philosophy, literature, and crea ...

. The work received positive reviews."Literary Magazine Reviews", ''The New Pages'', June 25, 2007
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