Pemmican began as a 36 page saddle-stitched print magazine with a card stock cover in 1992 and ended as a nearly 100 page magazine in 1999. Over the course of eight issues Pemmican represented a broad spectrum of poets, most of them contemporary American poets, writing a kind of poetry not generally found in the American mainstream.

After a two year hiatus, Pemmican was reincarnated on the Web

Guidelines - Pemmican seeks previously unpublished political poems, feminist poems, working class poems, ecological poems, revolutionary poems, poems to piss off the police, poetry of imagery and imagination, prose poems, long poems, short poems, and poems that destabilize the assumptions of the general aesthetic.   Pemmican is especially interested in those poets whose work has been marginalized, banned, or ignored to death for reasons other than quality.