From its first issue onward, jubilat has aimed to publish what's most alive in contemporary American poetry, and to place it alongside selections of reprints, found pieces, prose of various kinds, art, and interviews with poets and other artists.

Work from recent issues of jubilat have been chosen for The Best American Poetry 2017, 2009, 2005, 2001; the Pushcart Prize: Best of the Small Presses 2003 and 2004; and several times for reprint in Harper's Magazine.

Readers in that series have included James Tate, Matthea Harvey, Evie Shockley, Dara Wier, Peter Richards, Matthew Zapruder, D.A.

Wright, Prageeta Sharma, Michael Earl Craig, Chelsey Minnis, Catherine Wagner, James Haug, Michael Gizzi, Afaa Michael Weaver, Elizabeth Willis, Henri Cole, Anselm Berrigan, Ann Lauterbach, William Corbett, Forrest Gander, Lisa Jarnot, Srikanth Reddy, Anthony McCann, Brian Blanchfield, Katy Lederer, Travis Nichols, Cole Swenson, Gillian Conoley, Maggie Nelson, Dean Young, Tony Hoagland, Mary Jo Salter, Rebecca Wolff, Suzanne Buffam, Dan Chaisson, Daisy Fried, Mong-Lan, Keith Waldrop, Rosemary Waldrop, Major Jackson, Lesle Lewis, Cathy Park Hong, D. Nurkse, Dorothea Lasky, Laura Solomon, Mark Leidner, Michael Snediker, John Emil Vincent, Kimiko Hahn, Zach Schomberg, Emily Kendal Frey, Timothy Donnelly, Natalie Lyalin, Jordan Stempleman, Michelle Taransky, Dobby Gibson, Brett Ralph, Jenny Kronovet, Caryl Pagel, Jericho Brown, C.A.

Conrad, David Berman, David Brinks, Steve Healey, Lucy Ives, John Beer, Ish Klein, Ben Lerner, Matvei Yankelvich, Julie Carr, Ryan Murphy, Eugene Ostashevsky, Polina Barskova, Alan Felsenthal, Rachel B. Glaser, Joshua Beckman, Jeffrey Yang, Camille Rankine, Tyehimba Jess.