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THE BPJ's LIT MAG ADOPTION PROGRAM
In conjunction with the Council of Literary Magazines and Presses’ new Lit Mag Adoption Program for Creative Writing Courses, the BPJ is offering reduced-price subscriptions to writing classes adopting it for course use, with free desk-copy subscriptions to the instructors.
If you adopt the journal for your class, your students will get:
—a year’s subscription (4 issues) for $10. Two issues will arrive during the course of the semester.
—a meeting with the journal’s editors, John Rosenwald and Lee Sharkey, face to face or virtual, depending on your location. John and Lee have fifty-seven years of experience with the BPJ between them to draw on in an open discussion of any and all aspects of the journal’s history, mission, editorial process, and production, and of the current literary landscape.
—website features to complement the print issues, including a full-text, searchable sixty-year archive and the Poet’s Forum, on which each month a poet with work in the current issue responds to readers’ questions or comments.
To adopt the journal for a fall 2010 course or to learn more about the program, visit the CLMP Lit Mag Adoption Program website. You will receive log-in information for your students to order their discounted subscriptions through CLMP.
We’re enthusiastic about the potential of the Lit Mag Adoption Program to promote an active, engaged reading culture among young writers, and we hope you will be too.
 IN MEMORIAM
MARION KINGSTON STOCKING
1922–2009
Marion Kingston Stocking died peacefully on May 12, 2009, of the complications of non-Hodgkins lymphoma. In her fifty-four years with the BPJ, Marion wrote ninety-eight reviews and helped see over 200 issues into print. Marion was a friend and a mentor, curious about everything, deeply humane, and indefatigably devoted to poetry. We are blessed to have known and worked with her. For more about Marion, see the letter and Editors' Note in our Fall 2009 issue and the sampling of encomiums from poets whose work the BPJ has published and reviewed.
FULL-TEXT ARCHIVE, 1950-2009
The 244 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 six decades. 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.
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POET'S FORUM
In September, Karen Lepri discusses the composition of her "Root" and "Wave" and the generative vision for her "Meso Cantos," poems derived from the "middle forces . . . between universe and bacteria."
EDITORIAL POSITIONS AVAILABLE
We are looking to bring two new people onto our editorial board. The ideal person for the positions will be deeply grounded in poetry, particularly poetry whose quickened language and formal inventiveness expand our sense of poetic possibilities and our vision of the world. He or she will be eager to devote time over the long term to the work of editing.
That work will consist of online screening of manuscripts that have already passed through primary and secondary screenings—about 80 per quarter—and participating in weekend-long quarterly editorial board sessions in Farmington, Maine, where poems are read aloud, thoroughly discussed, and an issue chosen. The rewards? As a small, independent journal, we have always run entirely on volunteer labor, but we offer good talk, good food, a poetry family, and the opportunity to contribute to a publication that has had a hand in defining contemporary literature for six decades and counting.
If you are interested, send a letter describing your background and what attracts you to the position to bpj@bpj.org by October 15. Please note that you must be able to commit yourself to attending editorial board sessions. And do spread the word to your friends in the poetry community.
CELEBRATING OUR 60TH IN PRINT AND AT AWP
At the 2010 Associated Writing Programs conference we celebrated Marion Stocking's life and our 60th anniversary with a brief history of the journal and a virtuoso reading by five of our Chad Walsh Prize winners: Sherman Alexie, Karl Elder, Albert Goldbarth, Janet Holmes, and Susan Tichy. Over 300 people attended, among them dozens of poets we've published over the years. It was a joyous convergence of the far-flung BPJ family.
LISTEN TO KARL ELDER'S EXTRAORDINARY READING OF "ODE IN THE KEY OF O:
 SOLOMON WINS WALSH PRIZE
Onna Solomon is the 2009 winner of the Beloit Poetry
Journal's 17th 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 "Autism Suite," from the Fall, 2009 issue.
Solomon is a 2006 graduate of the Boston University graduate program in creative writing, where she studied with Robert Pinsky and Louise Glück. She is a founding member of the Huron River Arts Initiative, an arts collective that produces concerts and theatrical performances. This is her first publication in the BPJ.
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