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POEM FOR THE DAY
from the 62-year BPJ archive:
"Boomer" by Jay Ames, Fall 1962

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IN THE SUMMER ISSUE
Poems by Chase Berggrun, J. Scott Brownlee, Mario Chard, Aaron Crippen, Heather Dobbins, Peter Joseph Gloviczki, Katie Hartsock, zakia henderson-brown, Michael Jones, Jennifer Lighty, Éireann Lorsung, Steve Myers, Ray Nayler, Christine Pacyk, Maggie Schwed, Alpay Ulku, and Kip Zegers. Melissa Crowe reviews Traci Brimhall's Our Lady of the Ruins and Cole Swensen's Gravesend.

POET'S FORUM
May's forum features Alpay Ulku riffing on Orwell, dystopia, writing as resistance,
and the need for trust. His poems "Compensation," Garage Sale," and "The Orange Sonata" appear in the Summer 2013 issue of the journal. Click on the speaker icon to hear him read "Orange Sonata" .

Once in a while, I'll pick up a lit mag and read a great poem by someone I've never heard of. A poem that knocks me down and steals my shoes and makes me walk back to my own poor town over rocks and thorns. A poem that knocks the oomph out of my status quo. A poem I want to read to everybody. One that works and risks while it works. The Beloit Poetry Journal offers such poems.

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