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Zhang Xinglong, "Shower," woodcut, ca. 2004

The SUMMER 2006 ISSUE features Marion Stocking's review of W. S. Merwin's New and Selected Poems and Present Company plus poems by Malcolm Alexander, Robert Buchko, Garth Greenwell, Leonore Hildebrandt, Sonja James, Gwendolyn Jensen, Kurt Leland, Anne Marie Macari, Kristina Martino, Lynette Ng, B. Z. Niditch, Marsha Pomerantz, Jamie Ross, Aimée Sands, Eric Paul Shaffer, and Kelly Talbot



Our FULL TEXT ON-LINE ARCHIVE
of the BPJ, 1950-2005, is now complete. Among its treasures are first or otherwise unavailable poems by Sherman Alexie, A. R. Ammons, Philip Booth, Rosellen Brown, Charles Bukowski, James Dickey, Albert Goldbarth, Lola Haskins, Langston Hughes, Galway Kinnell, Maxine Kumin, Philip Larkin, Philip Levine, W. S. Merwin, Sharon Olds, Adrienne Rich, Anne Sexton, and Eleanor Wilner.

NEWS
The editors are proud to award the thirteenth annual Chad Walsh Poetry Prize to Karl Elder for his sequence of poems from Z Ain't Just for Zabecedarium in the Summer 2005 issue.

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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