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Submissions for 2024 Adrienne Rich Award for Poetry

The editors of the Beloit Poetry Journal are pleased to accept entries for the 2024 Adrienne Rich Award for Poetry. The award was established in 2017, with the support of the Adrienne Rich Literary Trust

This year’s final judge is Marilyn Chin. Born in Hong Kong, she is the author of six poetry collections and a novel. She is the winner of the 2020 Ruth Lily Prize in Poetry, the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, the PEN Oakland/Josephine Miles Literary Award, and a Radcliffe Institute fellowship, among other honors. Presently, she serves as a chancellor of the Academy of American Poets and lives in San Diego.

All submissions will be considered for publication, and the winner will receive $1,500. Submissions will remain open through April 30. For more details, see our guidelines.

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VOLUME 74 NO. 1-2

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.

Join the Conversation!

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.

Pamela Alexander's "Left" Available Now

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.

Marilyn Chin Selects Kate Sweeney as Winner of 2024 Adrienne Rich Award

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.

Join the Conversation!

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.

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