The Fall 2020 issue features new work by Jubi Arriola-Headley, Michael Bazzett, Amy Beeder, Elizabeth Breese, Cortney Lamar Charleston, Jane Craven, Tennessee Hill, Anthony Immergluck, Gabriel Jesiolowski, Bryana Joy, Christopher Kempf, Chris Ketchum, Steven Kleinman, Peter Krumbach, Michelle Lowry Macfarlane, Gail Martin, Becka Mara McKay, Carling McManus, Rachel Mennies, Jude Nutter, Corey Oglesby, Troy Osaki, Gretchen Steele Pratt, Doug Ramspeck, Eric Rawson, Simon Shieh, Sara Moore Wagner, Chelsea Whitton, Alicia Wright, Charles Wyatt and Linda Zisquit.

Cover image by Hollie Chastain.

The BPJ team is thrilled to announce that the 2020 title in the Chad Walsh Chapbook Series is Victoria C. Flanagan’s Glossary of Unsaid Terms. The collection, chosen by the editors, grapples beautifully with the challenges of inheritance—physical, cultural, and psychic.

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? Purchase a copy of Glossary of Unsaid Terms here.

Of Jude Nutter’s poem, Ellen Bass writes, “‘Visible Woman, Visible Man’ is a capacious, complex poem. Building on striking diction, fresh metaphors, and precise narration, the poet considers the human body and the whole of the physical world, reaching back and forward in time—an ambitious journey which she carries off with aplomb. Intellectually satisfying and emotionally moving, this is a poem which deepens with each successive reading.”

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

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