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Submissions for 2024 Adrienne Rich Award for Poetry

The editors of the Beloit Poetry Journal are pleased to accept entries for the 2024 Adrienne Rich Award for Poetry. The award was established in 2017, with the support of the Adrienne Rich Literary Trust

This year’s final judge is Marilyn Chin. Born in Hong Kong, she is the author of six poetry collections and a novel. She is the winner of the 2020 Ruth Lily Prize in Poetry, the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, the PEN Oakland/Josephine Miles Literary Award, and a Radcliffe Institute fellowship, among other honors. Presently, she serves as a chancellor of the Academy of American Poets and lives in San Diego.

All submissions will be considered for publication, and the winner will receive $1,500. Submissions will remain open through April 30. For more details, see our guidelines.

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Submissions for 2024 Adrienne Rich Award for Poetry

The editors of the Beloit Poetry Journal are pleased to accept entries for the 2024 Adrienne Rich Award for Poetry. This year’s final judge is Marilyn Chin. All submissions will be considered for publication, and the winner will receive $1,500. Submissions will remain open through April 30. For more details, see our guidelines.

VOLUME 73 NO. 1

Our new issue has arrived featuring work by Vasiliki Albedo, Susan Alkaitis, Janée J. Baugher, Anthony Borruso, Maryann Corbett, Melissa Cundieff, Emily Daniel, Chelsea Dingman, Sonia Feldman, Brian Francis, Jonathan Frey, Kate Gaskin, Matt Gellman, Rae Gouirand, Amorak Huey, Michelle Lisi, Margaree Little, Liz Marlow, Wes Matthews, Carling McManus, Brad Aaron Modlin, Rachel Morgan, Matthew Nienow, Preeti Parikh, Caroline Spooner Pittman, Supritha Rajan, Preeti Kaur Rajpal, Thomas Renjilian, Chris Santiago, Susannah Sheffer, Jess Tanck, Elizabeth Townsend, Bernardo Wade, Clare Welsh, and Grace H. Zhou.

Cover art by Diedrick Brackens.

Join the Conversation!

We're excited to welcome TC Tolbert to our feature, BPJ Poets In Conversation. S/he spoke with us about "The Quiet Practices", Winner of the 2023 Chad Walsh Chapbook Series.

Join the Conversation!

We're excited to welcome Elane Kim to our feature, BPJ Poets In Conversation. She spoke with us about her poem "Prospect Theory" featured in our latest issue.

Marie Howe Selects janan alexandra as Winner of 2023 Adrienne Rich Award

Of alexandra's poem, Marie Howe writes, "I kept coming back to this poem—which looks deceptively simple: folding sheets at the communal laundry line.  But what it holds is so much: one and many, what is and what might be, you and me, head and heart, garden and the appearance of garden, the present and the future—all bundled into the now of folding, matching one frowning corner of a sheet to another.  Form and Matter indeed. And I felt addressed as a reader, folded in, included in this poet's philosophical reverie, and I felt joy."

We’re grateful to the Adrienne Rich Literary Trust and to all who submitted poems for this year’s contest.

TC Tolbert's "The Quiet Practices" Available Now

TC Tolbert's chapbook, "The Quiet Practices," is now available! Visit our shop today to get your hands on a copy of this winner of the 2023 Chad Walsh Chapbook Prize. Jennifer Tseng writes of this collection, “Formally virtuosic and spiritually vital, these miraculous poems are a response to violence and yet they enact durability, tenderness, survival, change, and love.” We know you'll love this urgent, tender collection. Order a copy today.

Join the Conversation!

We're excited to welcome Marissa Davis to our feature, BPJ Poets In Conversation. She spoke with us about her poem "Diaspora Poetica" featured in our latest issue.