A proper poetry journal should be run by proper poets, not by “well-intentioned” committees or genteel “lovers of poetry” along the lines of who’s admitted to the social register and who is not. Nikolayev and Kapovich are smart, curious and up to the job. Keep your eye on Fulcrum.

Fulcrum is quite simply the most exciting literary magazine I know of—it’s got the largest scope of any journal, and room for the most depth. In an age of jaded readers, Fulcrum gives joyous illumination. Each issue is a treasure.

The most philosophically astute poetry journal available.

One of the liveliest, most challenging poetry journals now on the market, Fulcrum is notable for its non-sectarianism, its free-wheeling, wide-ranging presentation of different poetries, candid interviews, and unusual critical prose.

The reach and variety of Fulcrum is very welcome: from fresh new voices to old and valued ones, with no leaning towards a particular school or clique. Every issue is ample, vigorous and eclectic. No wonder people are taking notice.

Fulcrum… where intelligence refuses to die.

Poetry in the UK and the US is notorious for its vendettas, closed communities and border disputes. In contrast, Fulcrum displays an exemplary hospitality to a wide range of poetry and practices. It reminds us why and how poetry can matter by opening a literal and conceptual space in which attention can rest on language being brought into activation. Fulcrum is the future.

A poetry journal open to a wider range of philosophical interests than any other, Fulcrum is doing as much to advance philosophy as it is to advance poetry.

Fulcrum… is a stroke of luck for us readers, for it offers an unprecedented project in American letters today.

Prepare to be surprised. Literature should be surprising, and in Fulcrum, it is.

By its capacious, non-ideological, yet uniquely informed perspective on American and international poetry, Fulcrum performs an essential role among the literary magazines of our time. It is packed with the news, both good and bad, that poetry has to offer. Revelations abound in each issue.

Fulcrum is a state of flux—takes risks, opens doors, and doesn’t try to fix poetry to any one set of ideas. Challenging nationalist agendas, its internationalism is never strained. It is a space without fences—and that is to be respected and celebrated.

Returning to Calcutta, I carried Fulcrum with me on the flight: a poetry journal from America. Half of this issue [#4] was devoted to anthologising Indian poetry in English, and I was reading this section… with deep pleasure. What interested me was that a different idea of cross-cultural contact was at work in the journal from the one we’re indoctrinated with today, to do with globalisation and diaspora… Internationalism became significant because it brought different literatures together, and addressed, in a new way, the primacy of literature… Reading the anthology, I became aware of what should be obvious: some of the best writing in English in India is being done by poets.

A truly international annual of diverse poetry and cogent aesthetic enquiry, Fulcrum is an essential component of every contemporary English language poet’s working library. If your vertical bookshelves are already crammed and bulging, let Fulcrum take a well-deserved place on the top of your horizontal stack. It’s a distinctive and indispensable publication.

Actually, what you need to do is to get the latest Fulcrum.

I lack the qualifications to review Fulcrum 3 properly, but the more I think about its density and mass, the more I realize, oh give up trying to be Solomon, evaluating Fulcrum 3 is like—trying to hold a moonbeam with your hand. A big heavy 500 page behemoth of a moonbeam.

At once international and local in its scope, broadly informed, philosophic and lyric, Fulcrum is capable of serious lifting!

Luckily, Fulcrum comes out only once a year, otherwise there wouldn’t be much time left to do anything else.

Fulcrum is an elegant little poetry magazine published from “a room in Boston,” already seen as one of the most significant of its kind.

I’d say it blows away just about any print poetry publication out there….It merits comparisons to John Tranter’s Jacket and outdoes Jacket in some significant ways (fortunately it isn’t a competition…). Fulcrum is no mere experiment but instead the polished delivery of a swirl of so many influences…

Russian expats Katia Kapovich and Philip Nikolayev have launched in the US a poetry annual called Fulcrum. These two émigrés have succeeded at the kind of project that has of late proven to be beyond the power of American and British lovers of literature, who are well grounded in Western culture, at home in its institutions, educated at prestigious universities, well-connected in literary circles, and skilled at dealing with foundations that support cultural initiatives.

…Katia Kapovich, che con il marito Philip Nikolayev sta emergendo sulla scena americana grazie alla rivista Fulcrum di cui sono editori.

One of the most significant recent literary periodicals is Fulcrum: an annual of poetry and aesthetics, published by major Russian-American poets Philip Nikolayev and Katia Kapovich.

—The Boston Globe

[Fulcrum] will fill days in your life in a most gratifying way.

Fulcrum… arose a well-connected giant out of nowhere.

Fulcrum is probably the best poetry magazine currently available in the US.