Two of the better-known poets due in Lowell this October at the 2nd Massachusetts Poetry Festival (www.masspoetry.org) are featured in the July.August issue of American Poetry Review (www.aprweb.org), which is probably the most recognizable poetry publication in the nation after Poetry magazine. Anne Waldman, a co-founder of the Kerouac School of Writing at Naropa University in Colorado, and Aafa Michael Weaver, who holds an endowed faculty chair in poetry at Simmons College, both have a few pages of writing in the new APR. On the cover is legendary poet Gary Snyder, one of Kerouac’s best friends; the model for the main character in The Dharma Bums, Japhy Ryder, the rucksack poet of bohemian California; and sharpener of the front edge of the California counterculture that made the 1960s “The Sixties.”

Here’s background on APR: “The American Poetry Review is unique in American publishing. With eclectic editing, a newsprint tabloid format, and a circulation of 17,000, APR reaches a worldwide audience six times a year with some of the very best contemporary poetry and prose from a diverse array of authors. Over the past 35 years, APR has helped to make poetry a more public art form without compromising the art of poetry.” 

Here’s the cover of a back issue featuring the late Allen Ginsberg, a frequent visitor to Lowell in the 1980s and ’90s.

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