It is with mixed emotions that we’ve decided to bring the Found Poetry Review to a close after more than five years in operation. After ten issues and a variety of special projects, we look back on this endeavor with pride. We look ahead to future projects with excitement, too.

We founded the journal in 2011 with a mission to educate more people about found poetry and provide a home for work that was often not welcome in traditional publications. Since that time, found poetry in all its iterations has become more universally accepted. Many poems, chapbooks and manuscripts have found homes in mainstream publications since we started. In short, mission accomplished.

We’re grateful to the poets who have been a part of our ten regular issues, three special volumes and five National Poetry Month projects. We also thank our submission readers and volunteers; without their hard work we would have been unable to execute many of our big ideas.

Special thanks to these individuals: Marty Elwell, E. Kristin Anderson, Sonja Johanson, Deborah Hauser, S.E. Ingraham, Trish Hopkinson, Amanda Papenfus, Justin Bond, Vicki Hudson, Andrea Janelle Dickens, Nancy Chen Long and James W. Moore.

You can continue to read past issues and learn more about our projects on the website.

With gratitude,

Jenni B. Baker
Beth Ayer
Doug Luman

P.S. We invite you to check out our new endeavor, Container, a press dedicated to publishing book objects, artist books and other text in nontraditional forms.

FPR by the Numbers

10 volumes

3,067 submissions received

9.46% of submissions accepted

250 poetry kits mailed around the United States (Found Poetry Project, 2012)

85 poets, 7 countries, 1 poem per day in April (Pulitzer Remix, 2013)

80 poets, 8 countries, 1 poem per day in April (Oulipost, 2014)

197 poets, 3,900 poems total in April (PoMoSco, 2015)

30 poets, 30 daily writing prompts in April (Impromptu, 2016)

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