Welcome to the Stand Magazine home page. Stand is a quarterly literary magazine established in 1952. Jon Silkin founded Stand as "an attempt to remedy the intellectual situation of reader and poet" in response to our need for "something more human . . . for art and a public which is prepared to be receptive" where the art in Stand is "what is simple in expression and human in its context; for the chances that the compound will be profound and worth reading are reasonable."

Among Stand's recent publishing history is a memorial issue for Ken Smith and a special issue by and about the poet Geoffrey Hill. An exciting project came to fruition in late March of 2001--a special collaboration with the Nobel Museum in Stockholm and The Kenyon Review to celebrate the centenary of the Nobel prizes. This is an issue you'll want to read and own, featuring excerpts from the correspondence of Albert Einstein and Rhabindranath Tagore, a scene from Oxygen, a new play by Nobel laureate (Chemistry) Roald Hoffmann and scientist-author Carl Djerassi, and poems by Czeslaw Milsoz and Wislawa Szymborska, stories by Naguib Mahfouz and Patrick White, and much more.

In 2002 Stand celebrated its 50th anniversary of quarterly publication with a special anniversary issue featuring new poetry from Alasdair Gray, Andrew Motion, Michael Symmons Roberts, Simon Armitage, Anne Stevenson, Rodney Pybus, Edwin Morgan, W. N. Herbert, Robert Crawford, C. K. Stead, Amanda Dalton, Stephen Romer, and Michael Hamburger and E. A. Markham contributes a short story. Stand's long tradition of translation is continued with Ian Fairley's renderings of Paul Celan.