The Department of English at Virginia Commonwealth University houses the North American office for the British literary quarterly Stand, under US editor David Latané.

Stand Magazine was founded by the poet Jon Silkin in 1952. It was revived at Leeds in 1959 and has been published quarterly since then, moving to Newcastle upon Tyne in 1966. Stand is now being edited by Jon Glover, Matthew Welton, and John Whale and has returned its editorial offices to the School of English at Leeds.

Stand has a distinguished history of publishing poetry, fiction, and critical debate about the literary arts. Landmarks of post-war poetry such as Geoffrey Hill's "Funeral Music," Tony Harrison's "Sonnets from the School of Eloquence," and Robert Bly's "The Teeth Mother Naked at Last" were all first published in Stand. More recently the magazine published: a joint issue with Kenyon Review and the Nobel Prize Museum to celebrate the centennial of the Nobel Prizes. This issue included work Tagore, Einstein, Heaney, White, Curie, Mahfouz, Neruda and many others; a special issue for Geoffrey Hill on his 70th birthday, with a large section of a new book-length poem; and a 50th anniversary issue with work by Andrew Motion, Alasdair Gray, Anne Stevenson, and other longtime friends of Stand.

More information about Stand may be found at
http://www.standmagazine.org