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 Tichy Wins Walsh Prize
Susan Tichy of Fairfax, Virginia, and Westcliffe, Colorado, is the 2007 winner of the Beloit Poetry
Journal's 15th 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 Tichy's "Stork," from the Summer 2007 issue. Tichy, whom the BPJ first published in1981, teaches in the Graduate Writing Program at George Mason University and is the author of most recently of Bone Pagoda (Ahsahta Press), reviewed by Marion K. Stocking in our Fall 2007 issue. Ahsahta will publish her Gallowglass in 2010.
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COMING SOON: BPJ POET'S FORUM
As of June 1, this web site will host a blog. Each month one poet with work in the current issue will post a reflection on that work and invite your questions and comments.
The Poet's Forum poets for the summer issue are:
June 1-30, Erin Malone
July 1-31, Paul Gibbons
August 1-31, John Hodgen
We hope the forum fosters lively dialogue that strengthens the poetry community the BPJ hascontributed to for almost sixty years.
BPJ Pushcart Nominations for 2007—All praise to the poets!
David Camphous's "Jeremiad for Spring" (Vol. 57, No. 3, Spring 2007)
Albert Goldbarth's “The Craft Lecture to the Creative Writers / of the Low-residency Program at Yadda Yadda University, / with a Late Assist from Wallace Stevens, / Robert Frost, Maxine Kumin, Sir Thomas Browne, and / Allusion to the Title of an Early Book of Jorie Graham’s” (Vol. 58, No. 1, Fall 2007)
Jessica Goodfellow's “Drought” (Vol. 57, No. 4, Summer 2007)
Erin Malone's "Lament for Seven Minus Some " “The Winter He Is One,” "Boy in Red Shorts," and "Directions" (Vol. 57, No. 3, Spring 2007)
Mia Nussbaum's "[The Chapter of the Rending in Sunder]" (Vol. 58, No. 1, Fall 2007)
Dawn Potter's “Peter Walsh” (Vol. 57, No. 3, Spring 2007)
Clare Rossini's “Girl with Hair Tangled in Rose Bush” (Vol. 58, No. 1, Fall 2007)
Steve Wilson's “Extravagance” (Vol. 58, No. 1, Fall 2007)
Full-text Archive, 1950-2007
The 235 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.
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Split This Rock Chapbook
The Spring 2008 issue of the BPJ, a 56-page chapbook of political poetry, features work by Jimmy Santiago Baca, Jimmy Santiago Baca, Robert Bly, Mark Doty, Martín Espada, Carolyn Forché, Sam Hamill, Joy Harjo, Galway Kinnell, Stephen Kuusisto, E. Ethelbert Miller, Naomi Shihab Nye, Alix Olson, Alicia Ostriker, Ishle Yi Park, Sonia Sanchez, Patricia Smith, Susan Tichy, and Pamela Uschuk.
Copies are available for $3 apiece for classroom adoption.
More Kudos
Barbara Claire Freeman, whose "The Apocryphon of St. Ursula" is featured in our Summer 2007 issue, has won the Campbell Corner Poetry Award from Sarah Lawrence College. Her winning manuscript included "The Apocryphon."
Five poems from the BPJ are included in The Best American Poems 2007: Nicky Beer’s "Still Life with Half-Turned Woman and Questions," Galway Kinnell’s "Hide & Seek 1933," Ben Lerner’s "HE HAD ENOUGH RESPECT FOR PAINTING. . . .." and "THE AIRCRAFT ROTATES. . . .” (from Angle of Yaw), and Natasha Sajé’s "F."
Poetry Daily Essentials 2007 includes eight poems originally published in the BPJ: Mary Kane’s “13 Haiku About My Husband and Current State of Happiness," Paula Bohince’s’ "Acrostic: Outhouse," Robert Chute’s "Aristophanes at the Woodpile," Karl Elder's "Logo Rhythms," Albert Goldbarth’s "Off in the darkness hourses moved restlessly," and three poems from Mary Molinary’s 8:38.
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