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Zebra, by Jacques Hnizdovsky

POEM FOR THE DAY
from the 56-year BPJ archive:
"river-sandbank" by Pierre GarnierSeiichi Niikuni, Fall 1966

IN THE SUMMER 2008 ISSUE: poems by
Annie Boutelle, Paul Gibbons, Lizzie Hutton, John Hodgen, Roxane Beth Johnson, Kirun Kapur, Erin Malone, Christine Marshall, Matthew Raymond, Betsy Sholl, Young Smith, Anne Timberlake, Charles Wyatt, and Margaret Yocom, plus translations from the Romanian of Iona Ieronim.

COMING SOON: BPJ POET'S FORUM
As of June 1, this web site will host a blog. Each month one poet with work in the current issue will post a reflection on that work and invite your questions and comments.

The Poet's Forum poets for the summer issue are:
June 1-30, Erin Malone
July 1-31, Paul Gibbons
August 1-31, John Hodgen

We hope the forum fosters lively dialogue that strengthens the poetry community the BPJ hascontributed to for almost sixty years.


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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