From the first issue onward, jubilat has aimed to publish not only the best in contemporary American poetry, but to place it alongside a varied selection of reprints, found pieces, lyric prose, art, and interviews with poets and other artists. Rather than section off these varieties of work, the magazine creates a dialogue that showcases the beauty and strangeness of the ordinary, and how experiments with language and image speak in a compelling way about who we are.

Response to jubilat has been overwhelming. Work from recent issues has been selected for inclusion in Best American Poetry 2001, 2002, and 2005; The Pushcart Prize: Best of the Small Presses 2003 and 2004; and five times for reprint in Harper's magazine. The magazine has also been featured in Poets & Writers, The Chronicle of Higher Education, and on National Public Radio's All Things Considered, and was shown in the New York Public Library's 2002 exhibit New American Literary Magazines.

We are proud to participate in the Academy of American Poet's National Poetry Month initiative as Media Sponsors, and in the Council of Literary Magazines and Presses' national Lit Mag and Small Press Fairs. Since 2001, we have also co-sponsored the jubilat/Jones Reading Series at the Jones Library in Amherst, MA.

Our current issue, jubilat 16, features poems by Alice Notley, Timothy Donnelly, and Dean Young; an essay on Wallace Stevens and the ars poetica by Srikanth Reddy; and cures for common problems like haunted cattle, house fires, and fits by none other than Albertus Magnus, the greatest German theologian of the Middle Ages. Moreover, the editors are proud to present the jubilat African American Experimental Poetry Forum, a conversation among a brilliant group of young and mid-career poets edited by Terrance Hayes and Evie Shockley.