ABOUT

iO (pronounced [ahy-oh]) is a quarterly journal of new American poetry. We publish younger, up-and-coming American voices alongside established poets in each issue. We don’t subscribe to a theme, particular style, or aesthetic.  Rather these are poems by poets we love, across a wide range of styles, that move us.

We also do first-book interviews, book reviews, or publish conversations with our poets about a variety of things. We will fully solicit our first two issues, but all submissions are currently being reviewed for Volume II: Issue I and beyond. Guidelines can be found here.

iO was founded in March, 2011 as an extension of the Younger American Poets Reading Series.

Contact us with questions, comments, or ideas at iojournal@gmail.com. We believe in conversation. We’d love to hear from you.
 
ISSN 2160-9233

EDITORS

Wendy Xu is the author of THE HERO POEMS, a chapbook from H_NGM_N BKS 2011. Her poems have appeared, or are forthcoming in The American Poetry Journal, Diagram, Columbia Poetry Review, CutBank, Drunken Boat, MAKE, Third Coast, NOO, Jellyfish, and elsewhere. Selected by D.A. Powell as the Winner of the 2011 Patricia Goedicke Prize in Poetry, she studies at UMass-Amherst and lives in Northampton.
(extrahumanarchitecture.tumblr.com)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Kyle McCord is the author of Galley of the Beloved in Torment (2008 Dream Horse Press), Winner of the Orphic Prize, and a collection of collaborative poems entitled Informal Invitations to a Traveler. His poems have appeared widely in journals such as Boston Review, Cream City Review, Gulf Coast, Columbia: A Journal of Arts and Literature, and others. He is a graduate of the MFA Program at University of Massachusetts-Amherst, and will be a PhD Candidate this fall at the University of North Texas.
(www.kylemccord.com)