Alehouse Final Print Issue

Editor Jay Rubin announced in Alehouse Number 4 that this will be the final print issue of the magazine: “While recessions may be good for poets, providing material for future poems, such economic downturns are detrimental for publishers. As a result, we’ve had to scale back our menu a bit, trimming out our usual list of essays. Next year, rather than risk the high waves of continued economic uncertainty, we plan to shutter our doors against impending storms. Regrettably, we will not publish a hard-copy issue in 2011. Instead, we’ll post an on-line version while maintaining our annual Happy Hour Poetry Awards.”