"I am sure I will not be the only one who will be grateful for The Formalist. Frankly, it was a shock to realize, as I looked through the first issue, that I had very nearly given up the idea of taking pleasure from poetry."

Arthur Miller
America's Foremost Playwright

"I count on The Formalist to keep, unabashedly, the sometimes flickering flame of the great tradition alive and glowing. Its mingling of the old and the new is salutary and illuminating."

Donald Justice

The Formalist's unadorned cover speaks for it with an eloquence scarcely any other journal would dare and none could match. There, side by side, in issue after issue, lie the names of Boileau, Plato, Catullus, Dante, Ronsard and Poliziano alongside of John Frederick Nims, Brad Leithauser, Fred Chappell, Rachel Hadas and a galaxy of other living poets who have published their own poems as well as translating their forebears. The combination of skills, the respect for and delight in precursors, the fine homogeneity of old and new astonishes, invigorates, and enriches all concerned. There is nothing like it. Every issue is full of surprises and fresh discoveries.

Anthony Hecht