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We're excited to welcome Anna Laura Reeve to our feature, BPJ Poets In Conversation. She spoke with us about her poem "The Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale" featured in our latest issue.

Our new issue has arrived! It features work by Paula Bohince, Lauren Camp, Grady Chambers, Alex Chertok, Irene Cooper, Jackie Craven, Marissa Davis, Juditha Dowd, C. Francis Fisher, Kim Garcia, JP Grasser, Jessica Hammack, Jared Harél, Marcus Jamison, Elane Kim, William Lessard, Cate Lycurgus, Erin Marie Lynch, Carolann Caviglia Madden, Jennie Malboeuf, Melissa McKinstry, Bridget O'Bernstein, Anna Laura Reeve, Magali Roy-Féquière, David Thacker, Benjamin Voigt, Laura Paul Watson, Mariya Zilberman.

Cover image: Stomacher, item # 11890. Used with permission, courtesy of Lang Antiques. www.langantiques.com

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We're excited to welcome Mandy Moe Pwint Tu to our feature, BPJ Poets In Conversation. She spoke with us about her poems "Kin Ma," "Cremating Our Fathers," and "Statement by the President of the Security Council on Myanmar, March 10, 2021," featured in our latest issue.

We're excited to welcome Craig Beaven to our feature, BPJ Poets In Conversation. He spoke with us about his poem "Portrait of My Daughter in Repose," featured in our latest issue.

We're excited to welcome Jason B. Crawford to our feature, BPJ Poets In Conversation. They spoke with us about their poem "3-Man Weave: Learning to Braid," featured in our latest issue.

Of Anna Laura Reeve's poem, Jane Hirshfield writes, "The Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale” brilliantly uses its device of psychology-evaluation questionnaire and the responses' contrasting (and changing) diction to bring readers into its interior and exterior landscape with vividness, exactitude, surety, and the discoveries of language's own imaginative powers. Surface objectivity and calmness become increasingly transparent to what is described: the lived experience, feelings, thought, and condition of spirit of the mother of a premature new-born over time. From birthing room forward, this poem is entirely revelatory and harrowing."

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

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Amy Miller's Chad Walsh Prize-winning chapbook "Astronauts” is available now! This astounding, harrowing collection explores love and strife between sisters, as well as the lure and losses of addiction. Order a copy of this fiercely original book today.

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