HODGEN WINS WALSH PRIZE
John Hodgen is the 2008 winner of the Beloit Poetry Journal's 16th annual Chad Walsh Poetry Prize. The editors select a poem or group of poems we have published in the calendar year to receive the award. This year's selection is a set of four poems from the Summer 2008 issue.

Hodgen is the author of three prizewinning volumes, Grace (U of Pittsburgh P, 2006), Bread Without Sorrow (Eastern Washington UP, 2001), and In My Father’s House (Emporia State UP, 1993). This is his first publication in the BPJ.

BPJ PUSHCART NOMINATIONS FOR 2008—
Congratulations to the poets!

Paul Gibbons's “Fugue: In Medias Res” (Vol. 58, No. 4, Summer, 2008)
Regan Huff's “Occurrence on Washburn Avenue” (Vol. 59, No. 1, Fall 2008)
Kirun Kapur's “At the Tiki Lounge” (Vol. 58, No. 4, Summer 2008)
Peter Munro's “Animal Kingdom” (Vol. 58, No. 2, Winter 2007/2008)  
Molly Tenenbaum's “Choosing Your Ventriloquial Voice” (Vol. 59, No. 1, Fall 2008)
Charles Wyatt's “Variation 22” (Vol. 58, No. 4, Summer 2008)             

FULL-TEXT ARCHIVE, 1950-2008
The 234 issues of the Beloit Poetry Journal that have been published since the fall of 1950 constitute a history of English-language poetry in the last half-century. We are happy to make that history available to readers, poets, and scholars in our on-line archive.

The archive contains rare texts such as Anne Sexton's first published poem, Langston Hughes' translations of Federico Garcia Lorca's Gypsy Ballads, and a memorial chapbook for William Carlos Williams edited by David Ignatow in 1963 whose list of contributors reads like a Who's Who of mid-twentieth century American poetry.

To find a particular poet or poem, look the poet’s name up in the Index, click on the name to see a list of what we’ve published by that poet, then click on the poem you want to see.

BPJ POET'S FORUM
This web site now hosts a blog. Each month one poet with work in the current issue posts a reflection on that work and invites your questions and comments.

The forum poets for the Winter 2008/2009 issue are
December, John M. Anderson
January, Jessica Goodfellow
February, Greg Wrenn

The conversation has been lively and we hope you'll join in.

The BPJ poems listed below have been featured recently on the Poetry Daily and Verse Daily websites. Poetry Daily has also republished as prose features Marion K. Stocking's reviews of new books by Galway Kinnell, Harryette Mullen, and Ben Lerner, and of W. S. Merwin's collective oeuvre, as well as The Modern Review's "The Little Magazine a Hundred Years On," a panel of magazine editors, including the BPJ's Lee Sharkey. We're grateful for these organizations' support of this magazine and of contemporary poetry.

Malcolm Alexander's "Sisyphus"
Marianne Boruch's "St. Francis in Winter"
Tony Brinkley's "from Gomorrah, a sequence"
Jessica Goodfellow's "What You See If You Use Water as a Mirror"
John Hodgen's "Watson"
Karen Johnson's "Deep Winter"
Stephen Kuusisto's "Jazz from Cripple City"
Heather Maki's "A Story About Things"
Christine Marshall's "Apostrophe to What's Still Here"
Christopher Matthews's "Fetching"
Susan Maxwell's "Milkweed"
Ander Monson's "For Orts"
Mia Nussbaum's "The Chapter of the Rending in Sunder"
Sam Reed's "from The Book of Zeros"
Jamie Ross's "Scout"
Aimée Sands's "The Mortgaging of Self Is Done"
Betsy Sholl's "A Song In There"
Steve Wilson's "Extravagance"
Greg Wrenn's "One of the Magi"