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Noting the force of Parker's poem, Dorianne Laux writes,  "Power and Control.  Two gods bowling, knocking down the dumb-struck mortals at the end of the road. An apt metaphor for how they make a game of it all, aiming for complete and utter and mindless annihilation."

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

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The editors of the Beloit Poetry Journal are delighted to announce that they have selected Cortney Lamar Charleston's A Republic, If for this year's title in the Chad Walsh Chapbook Series.

Cortney Lamar Charleston is the author of three full-length poetry collections, including Telepathologies (Saturnalia Books, 2017), selected by D. A. Powell for the 2016 Saturnalia Books Poetry Prize; Doppelgangbanger (Haymarket Books, 2021), named a best book of 2021 by the New York Public Library and the Boston Globe; and It's Important I Remember (Curbstone Books / Northwestern University Press, 2026). He was awarded a Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation, and he has also received fellowships from Cave Canem and the New Jersey State Council on the Arts. Winner of a Pushcart Prize, his poems have appeared in POETRY, the Nation, the Atlantic, the American Poetry Review, the Kenyon Review, and many other periodicals and anthologies. Charleston currently serves on the Haymarket Books Poetry Advisory Board.

When you subscribe to the BPJ, you’ll receive as part of your subscription a copy of the forthcoming chapbook in the series. Not a subscriber? Subscribe here.

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Our new issue has arrived featuring work by Kemi Alabi, Kimberly Quiogue Andrews, Gabriel Arquilevich, Dulce Arteaga, Hadara Bar-Nadav, Anne Barngrover, Daisy Bassen, Alessandra Bava, Lizzy Beck, Maya Bernstein, Sheila Black, Jenn Blair, Dmitry Blizniuk, James Brunton, Maria Grazia Calandrone, Satya Dash, Yahya Frederickson, Sergey Gerasimov, Jessica Greenbaum, David Hernandez, Anna Maria Hong, Aimee Inglis, Katie Kemple, Mickie Kennedy, Jesse Lee Kercheval, Melissa Kwasny, Y.S. Lee, Kyle Liang, Alejandro Lucero, Oksana Maksymchuk, Mia Ayumi Malhotra, Malia Maxwell, Kevin McLellan, Alison Pelegrin, Chen Poyu, Natalia Prusinska, Adrie Rose, Lis Sanchez, Lee Sharkey, Alison Thumel, Rashna Wadia, G.C. Waldrep, Joe Wilkins and Nicholas Wong.

Cover art by Elana Mann.

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We're excited to welcome Sara Elkamel to our feature, BPJ Poets In Conversation. She spoke with us about Garden City, Winner of the 2025 Chad Walsh Chapbook Series.

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Sara Elkamel's chapbook, "Garden City," is now available! Visit our shop today to get your hands on a copy of this winner of the 2025 Chad Walsh Chapbook Prize. Ken Chen writes of this collection, “Garden City is a lapidary, fecund investigation of the lives of women: mothers and kittens, sisters and angels—as well as female prisoners of the state, who coexist in a temporally synesthetic lockdown between pharaonic and contemporary Egypt." Order a copy today.

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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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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.