POET'S FORUM

In this month's forum, Brittany Cavallaro discusses her reworking of the myths of female adolescence in "The Girl in Question." Listen to her read the poem.

CONGRATULATIONS!

Jenny Johnson's “Aria” and Fady Joudah's "Tenor," both of which appeared in our Summer 2011 issue, have been chosen for the Best American Poetry 2012.

The BPJ 's Pushcart Prize nominees for 2011 are
Margaret Aho, for "The Will Loses Its Object" (Summer 2011)
Michael Broek, for "Terra Anthroplogica" (Fall 2011)
Sue D. Burton, for "Bulletbroof" (Winter 2010/2011)
Janice N. Harrington, for "Why, Oh Why, the Doily" (Winter 2010/2011)
Jennifer Whitaker, for "Habit" (Winter 2010/2011)
Tracy Zeman, for "Grass for Bone" (Summer 2011)

Eduardo C. Corral, whose bilingual corrido "Variation on a Theme by José Montoya" appears in the Spring 2011 issue, is the winner of this year's Yale Younger Poets Prize as well as a 2011 Whiting Award.

FULL-TEXT ARCHIVE, 1950-2011
The 247issues 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.

BUKOWSKI AND THE BPJ
The BPJ first published Charles Bukowski in its Winter 1957/58 issue on the English "Movement" and the U.S. "Underground," whose explcit content offended some members of the Beloit College faculty and Board of Trustees and led to the journal's declaring its independence from the college. Follow the link to read Bukowski scholar Abel Debritto's account of Bukowski's role in the incident and its influence on his career.

JENNY JOHNSON WINS
WALSH PRIZE

Jenny Johnson of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, is the 2011winner of the Beloit Poetry Journal’s annual Chad Walsh Poetry PrizeThe editors of the BPJ select on the basis of its excellence a poem or group of poems they have published in the calendar year to receive the award. This year’s choice is Johnson’s crown of sonnets, “Aria” , which appeared in the Summer 2011 issue. The prize carries a cash award this year of $5,000.

AUDIO ARCHIVE
Michael Broek, from "The Logic of You"
Karl Elder, "Ode in the Key of O"
Jenny Johnson, "Aria" .
Kirun Kapur, "Melon Cleaver" and "Light"
Elizabeth Langemak, "Expectation" and "Illinois Cornfield as Nude Descending Staircase."
Karen Lepri, "Root" and "Wave"
Anna George Meek, "Self-Posssession"
Christopher Munde, " Entomology of Exhaustion"
Christopher Munde, "What Was Gentle Has Turned Careful"
Pattabi Seshadri, "Desert Grass"
Daneen Wardrop, "Mozart's Starling" and "Counterpoint"
Charles Wyatt, "Thirteen Ways of Looking at Wallace Stevens," sections 11-13
Tracy Zeman, "Grass for Bone"

YOUTUBE LINKS
Karl Elder, "The Chills," "Conversion,""Ode in the Key of O"
Janet Holmes, from "Partch Stations"
Susan Tichy, "Stork," and "Come Back Each Summer To See How Far Your Favorite Rock Has Moved"

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.