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Kiwis, woodcut by Zhang Xinglong

POEM FOR THE DAY
from the 62-year BPJ archive:
"Red April" by James Blish, Winter 1951-1952

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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. In Books in Brief, Melissa Crowe reviews Traci Brimhall's Our Lady of the Ruins and Cole Swensen's Gravesend.

POET'S FORUM
This month in the forum, Heather Dobbins discusses how she "keeps company with fellow poets" and how steeping herself in the elegaic tradition influenced the composition of her "In the Low Houses," which appears in the Summer 2013 issue of the journal. Listen to her read the poem Heather Dobbins reads "In the Low Houses" .

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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