It has been called "one of the half-dozen best literary journals" by Poet Laureate Daniel Hoffman in The Philadelphia Inquirer.

[2] In 1991 the magazine began to be published by Drexel University in Philadelphia where Richard Burgin taught.

Poet Charles Simic has called it one of the eight best literary magazines in America.

[3] In a 2003 interview, Burgin said, "My suspicion, especially of many MFA writers, is that they are writing what they think will get published and are not sufficiently interested in exploring the form.

Political correctness is the most noxious disease and enemy of the literary artist of our current time.