TC Tolbert's "The Quiet Practices" Available Now

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 Marissa Davis to our feature, BPJ Poets In Conversation. She spoke with us about her poem "Diaspora Poetica" featured in our latest issue.

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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.

VOLUME 72 NO. 2

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.

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Submissions Open for Chad Walsh Chapbook Series

The editors of the Beloit Poetry Journal are pleased to accept entries for 2023 Chad Walsh Chapbook Series. The series was established in 2017, with the support of the Alison W. Sackett Trust, in honor of former editor Chad Walsh. 

The poet whose manuscript is selected for the series will receive $2,500 and 50 copies of the chapbook and in-depth editorial consultation. The winning chapbook will be distributed to every BPJ subscriber and sold separately, in a print run of approximately 1,500. Previous titles in the series include Jacques J. Rancourt's In the Time of PrEP, Katie Farris's A Net to Catch my Body in its Weaving and Amy Miller's Astronauts.

We will remain open for submissions through November 30. For more details, see our guidelines.

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