Hambone is a small literary magazine that has published major poets.
[1] Writing in The Nation magazine, John Palattella described Hambone as "an indispensable little magazine that for more than a quarter-century has featured work by everyone from Sun Ra, Robert Duncan, and Beverly Dahlen to Edward Kamau Brathwaite and Susan Howe.
"[2] The magazine's first issue was published in the spring of 1974 as a group effort by the Committee on Black Performing Arts at Stanford University.
The second issue appeared in the fall of 1982, with Mackey as sole editor and publisher.
[3] It included work by Sun Ra, fiction by Clarence Major, Wilson Harris and poems by Robert Duncan, Beverly Dahlen, Jay Wright, and Kamau Brathwaite.