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Our new double issue has arrived featuring work by .Chisaraokwu., Vasiliki Albedo, Rowyda Amin, A. Anupama, Summer Awad, Ìfẹ́olúwa Àyàndélé, Colin Bailes, Michael Bazzett, Olivia Braley, Ian Cappelli, Michael Chang, Yongyu Chen, Stephanie Choi, Gen Del Raye, Fay Dillof, Tatiana Dolgushina, Rebecca Ellis, Angelica Esquivel, Noah Falck, Kim Garcia, Rasaq Malik Gbolahan, Nica Giromini, Marea Gordett, Benjamin Gucciardi, Patricia Guzman, Jessica Hammack, Shelby Handler, Aiden Heung, Ben Hyland, Elaine Johanson, Crystal Condakes Karlberg, Laetitia Keok, Vandana Khanna, Becca Klaver, Zach Linge, Sandy Longhorn, Jennifer Martelli, Brandi Nicole Martin, Olga Maslova, Sarah Matsui, Sydney Mayes, Alexandra McIntosh, Carling McManus, Amy Miller, Ruby Hansen Murray, Bridget O’Bernstein, Rosanna Young Oh, Zuleyha Ozturk, No‘u Revilla, Max Seifert, Alafia Nicole Sessions, Sahara Sidi, Dorsía Smith Silva, Jaxson Spencer, Jordan St. Hill, Ellie Stimpson, Kate Stoltzfus, Tramaine Suubi, Kate Sweeney, Avia Tadmor, Dujie Tahat, Raisa Tolchinsky, Meg Walsh, Isabelle Ylo and Mychael Zulauf.

Cover art by Suzanne Kiggins.

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We're excited to welcome Pamela Alexander to our feature, BPJ Poets In Conversation. She spoke with us about Left, Winner of the 2024 Chad Walsh Chapbook Series.

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Pamela Alexander's chapbook, "Left," is now available! Visit our shop today to get your hands on a copy of this winner of the 2024 Chad Walsh Chapbook Prize. Kevin Prufer writes of this collection, “In terse lyric poetry, Alexander creates characters that seem alive in their contradictions. Like a memoir distilled into poetry, this book is alive, frightening, and humane, suggesting, always, how little we might know of each other’s inner lives. This is one of the best poetry collections I have read in years.” We know you'll love this fierce elegy. Order a copy today.

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Of Sweeney’s poem, Marilyn Chin writes, "I love this tiara of sonnets, filled with lurid confessions and womanist high jinks. I am especially impressed by the sprinklings of brilliant assertions: 'Gender is undistinguishable from gender…' 'You were immune, an error of blood at birth, small and pale, and boned.' Perhaps this sequence was inspired by Adrienne Rich’s 'Twenty-One Love Poems,' perhaps not. Nonetheless, I believe that Adrienne Rich would’ve enjoyed reading this edgy collection.”

We’re grateful to the Adrienne Rich Literary Trust and to all who submitted poems for this year’s contest.

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We're excited to welcome TC Tolbert to our feature, BPJ Poets In Conversation. S/he spoke with us about "The Quiet Practices", Winner of the 2023 Chad Walsh Chapbook Series.