Dan Campion

Founded 24 years ago by John Mella under the name Light Quarterly, Light is America’s oldest and best-known journal of light verse. [The producers] ar eproud to be building on John’s mission to “restore humor, clarity, and pleasure to the reading of poems” by publishing some of the wittiest poets around. (from http://lightpoetrymagazine.com).

A quarterly of humorous, occasional, ephemeral & light verse.

As described on the website- "The mission of this new semi-annual magazine was to create a forum, a showcase and gallery for the voices and visions of Chicago poets, fiction writers, artists, and photographers."

A quarterly of short, light poetry

An independently published quarterly journal of poetry and short essays. Featured artist Philip Appleman

After Hours says on the cover that it is a journal of Chicago writing and art. It is published twice a year and is composed of poetry, prose and photography.

In our logo we have called ourselves "a journal of Chicago writing and art." The Chicago school of literature is very much like the people, the politicians, the style, the neighborhoods of the city that inspires an artistic vice that is unpretentious, aware of the realities and inequalities of materialism yet sentimental in a streetwise-front-stoop-backyard sort of way. So often Chicago is thought of as unrefined or unsophisticated ... a city of big-shouldered thugs, scandal, dirty alleys ad factory workers. But what Chicago lacks in polish, it makes up for in honesty. Chicago writers pull no punches. Chicago writers find a beauty in big-shouldered thugs, scandal, dirty alleys ad factory workers. *

There is no question of the strength of the writing that has come from this city-Algren, Castillo, Brooks, Bellow, Farrell; Sandburg, etc. etc. But there was no journal striving to showcase that Chicago style of writing-a style that is so often shunned or misunderstood. So here it is...After Hours...a showcase of Chicago writers and artists. -taken from issue.