Knockout was a literary magazine founded by Jeremy Halinen and prose poetry editor Brett Ortler in 2007. We produced six issues in all. The lineups for each issue are below. Knockout was unique in that it had a roughly 50/50 mix of GLBTQ folks and straight writers.

Note: Knockout poets, please let me know of any name changes below. I’m happy to make them here, though I obviously can’t do much about the printed issues.

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Issue Volume 6, Fall 2017
Hillary Adler
Roy Bentley
Daniel Bourne
Mike Crossley
Jim Daniels
Jörg Fauser
J River Helms
Alex Lemon
Kelly McQuain
Jessica Moll
Adrian Nichols
Eric Norris
Brian Ørnbøl
Thom Satterlee
Jordan Lee Schnee
Armin Senser
Sagirah Shahid
Darius Stewart
An Tran
Teresa Vanairsdale
Emily Van Kley
Joel Van Valin
Danielle Weeks

Issue Volume 5, Fall 2014
JC Alfier
Lauren K. Alleyne
Nin Andrews
Derrick Austin
Alan Basting
Brian Beatty
Victoria Brockmeier
Jennifer S. Brown
Brent Calderwood
Steven Cordova
Mark Cuilla
Jim Daniels
Andrew Demcak
Sean Thomas Dougherty
Jameson Fitzpatrick
Stacia M. Fleegal
John Goodhue
Tom Holmes
Dave Jarecki
Athena Kildegaard
Michelle Kozlowski
Melissa Kwasny
Lisa Lewis
Lisa Mangini
Seth Marlin
Dana Guthrie Martin
Jennifer McStotts
Michael Montlack
Kathryn Nuernberger
Dan O’Brien
Richard J. O’Brien
Sheila Packa
Daniel Pinkerton
Paige Riehl
Paul Arrand Rodgers
Bertha Rogers
Chivas Sandage
Brian Satrom
Karen Schubert
Danez Smith
Cara Stoddard
Joyce Sutphen
Monet Thomas
Eric Tran
Mitchell Untch
Peter Weltner
Patrick Wilcox
Joe Wilkins
Derek JG Williams
Stephen Zerance

Issue Volume 4, Spring 2012
Todd Boss
Lee Stern
Ilyse Kusnetz
Tim Nolan
Joseph V. Milford
Julie R. Enszer
Kelly Madigan
Dana Guthrie Martin
Scott Hightower
Jesse Lee Kercheval
Cyrus Cassells
Richard Foerster
Jory M. Mickelson
Kascha Semonovitch
Sarah Hudgens
Rickey Laurentiis
Christopher Howell
Billy Collins
Athena Kildegaard
Andrew Demcak
Mark Terrill
David Starkey
Larry Bradley
Denver Butson
Kevin Zepper
Mark Vinz
Dan Lewis
Christian Gullette

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Issue 3, Spring  2010
Haystack Tennessee and Victor Patch
Jeff Mann
Patrick Carrington
Denver Butson
Joyce Sutphen
Victoria Givotovsky
Elizabeth J. Colen
Robert Walker
Stephen O’Connor
Joseph Massey
J. P. Dancing Bear
Jim Tolan
Kate Hanson
Peter McNamara
Stephen S. Mills
Ronald H. Bayes
Charles Jensen
Charlotte Innes
Campbell McGrath
Richard Siken
Mark Terrill
Amisha Patel
Sherman Alexie
Russell Melia
Kelly Madigan Erlandson
Matthew Hittinger
Sarah Rairden Flynn
Susan J. Erickson
Juliet Patterson

translations of
Dag T. Straumsvåg
Harry Martinson
Olav H. Hauge
(translations by Robert Hedin)

Yannis Ritsos
(translations by Scott King)

Jesus Encinar
(translations by Lawrence Schimel)

nonfiction by
Paul Lisicky

short fiction by
Kim Chinquee

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Issue Volume 2, Spring 2009
Nathan Whiting
Michael J. Rosen
Erin M. Bertram
Willis Barnstone
Molli Rocket
Louis Jenkins
Rika Lesser
Joe Wilkins
William Baer
Reginald Shepherd
Blas Falconer
Nance Van Winckel
Tim Nolan
Elizabeth Bradfield
Robert Wrigley
Ruth Williams
Todd Boss
Maya Jewell Zeller
Kristine Ong Muslim
RJ Gibson
Denver Butson
Jessica Moll
Denise Duhamel
Jessica Halliday
Melissa Kwasny
Stacey Waite
Kathryn Nuernberger
Christopher Howell
Theodore Enslin
J.P. Dancing Bear

translations of Luis Cremades
Rainer Maria Rilke
Elisabeth Rynell
Göran Sonnevi

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Issue Number 1, Spring 2008
Marvin Bell
Mabel Yu
Charlotte Innes
Alberto Ríos
Todd Boss
Billy Collins
Joseph Massey
Gary Margolis
Charles Jensen
Carl Phillips
CAConrad
David Mason
Aaron Smith
Michael Montlack
Ger Killeen
Ronald H. Bayes
Denver Butson
Thomas Meyer
Tony Barnstone
Beverly Burch
Thomas Lux
Jonathan Williams
Christopher Hennessy
Dan Pinkerton
Laurie Blauner
Robert Bly
Stan Sanvel Rubin
Lynn Levin
Larissa Szporluk
Kimberly Lambright
Jeff Mann
Timothy Liu
Whit Griffin
Jeffery Beam
Gerard Wozek
Brent Goodman
Jim Elledge
Chou Ping

translations of
Yuan Zhen
Ouyang Jiong
Han Wo
Zhao Luanluan