Jacket (magazine)

Jacket (now published as Jacket2) is an online literary periodical, which was founded by the Australian poet John Tranter. The first issue was in October 1997.

Until 2010, each new number of the magazine was posted at the Web site piece by piece until the new issue was full, when the next issue started. Past issues remain posted as well. Most of the material was original to the magazine, "but some is excerpted from or co-produced with hard-to-get books and magazines, partly to help them find new readers", according to the Jacket website.

Peter Forbes called Jacket the "prince of online poetry magazines". After the 40th volume, Tranter gave the magazine to the University of Pennsylvania in 2010, where it was published with an augmented staff and resources at the Kelly Writers House.

As of 2023, the magazine is devoted to "articles, reviews, interviews, discussions and collaborative responses, archival documents, podcasts, and descriptions of poetry symposia and projects"; it does not publish poetry.

According to the information provided, it appears that the magazine primarily featured original content but also included material that was excerpted from or co-produced with other sources. The purpose of this was to introduce new readers to these other materials, which were likely hard to find elsewhere. This approach likely helped the magazine to expose its readers to a wider range of literary material and to support other publications by bringing attention to their work.