Throughout the 20th century, “little magazines”—magazines usually noncommercial in nature and often committed to certain literary ideals—have been a primary organ for the dissemination of poetry and for the formation of literary communities across the aesthetic and political spectra. Consequently, they offer a rich and largely unexplored resource for researching the material and social networks in which poetry takes shape as well as the genetic evolution of individual poems.

The Poetry Collection maintains a comprehensive selection of past and current little magazines, literary journals, university reviews, newspapers, and other poetry periodicals, and is particularly strong in its holdings of independent publications. The gallery below (click on each item to view a larger image) represents a small portion of the approximately 5,000 titles in the collection. Copies may be requested through OCLC Interlibrary Loan, where our holding symbol is BUF.