Despite continued interest in Stanford's work, his legacy has been largely overlooked in the canonization process of poetry anthologies and university literature courses. He is one of the least known of the significant voices of latter 20th century American poetry, despite being widely published in many prominent magazines, including "The American Poetry Review", "Chicago Review", "FIELD", "The Iowa Review", "Ironwood", "kayak", "The Massachusetts Review", "The Mill Mountain Review", "The Nation", "New American Review", "The New York Quarterly", "Poetry Now", and "Prairie Schooner".