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TC Tolbert's chapbook, "The Quiet Practices," is now available for preorder! Visit our shop today to get your hands on a copy of this winner of the 2023 Chad Walsh Chapbook Prize. Jennifer Tseng writes of this collection, “Formally virtuosic and spiritually vital, these miraculous poems are a response to violence and yet they enact durability, tenderness, survival, change, and love.” We know you'll love this urgent, tender collection. Order a copy today.

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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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