Small Press Review was a magazine of reviews and criticism edited by Len Fulton, the first issue of which was published in 1967. Each issue was divided equally between reviews of recent small press publications and of issues of literary magazines and journals. In addition, each issue included a short editorial or opinion piece and a few pages of “News & Notes,” which highlighted new magazines and publishing houses, contests, free samples.
The magazine ran for forty-seven years and over five hundred issues. When Len died in 2011, his sister Susan and writer and editor Kathleen Glanville took over editorial direction of the magazine. The last issue was published in 2015.
“Volume 2 Number 4,” published in 1970, contains reviews by Gary Elder, Jerrald Ranta, Leslie Layton, and others and includes an essay on concrete poetry by Wally Depew, who briefly served as the publication’s magazine editor in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Depew’s essay is presented in small text boxes at the bottom of each page and runs throughout the issue. -Printed Matter
