Pamela Alexander's chapbook, "Left," is now available! Visit our shop today to get your hands on a copy of this winner of the 2024 Chad Walsh Chapbook Prize. Kevin Prufer writes of this collection, “In terse lyric poetry, Alexander creates characters that seem alive in their contradictions. Like a memoir distilled into poetry, this book is alive, frightening, and humane, suggesting, always, how little we might know of each other’s inner lives. This is one of the best poetry collections I have read in years.” We know you'll love this fierce elegy. Order a copy today.

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Of Sweeney’s poem, Marilyn Chin writes, "I love this tiara of sonnets, filled with lurid confessions and womanist high jinks. I am especially impressed by the sprinklings of brilliant assertions: 'Gender is undistinguishable from gender…' 'You were immune, an error of blood at birth, small and pale, and boned.' Perhaps this sequence was inspired by Adrienne Rich’s 'Twenty-One Love Poems,' perhaps not. Nonetheless, I believe that Adrienne Rich would’ve enjoyed reading this edgy collection.”

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

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Our new issue has arrived featuring work by Colleen Abel, Janan Alexandra, Farah Ali, Rowyda Amin, Alex Averbuch, Laura Bandy, Rhoni Blankenhorn, Zoe Canner, Leila Chatti, Sophia Chong, Jessica Cuello, River 瑩瑩 Dandelion, Jonathan Diaz, Amy Dryansky, Rebecca Ellis, Gibson Fay-LeBlanc, Stacey Forbes, Rebecca Foust, Janice N. Harrington, Darla Himeles, Lizzie Hutton, Alexis V. Jackson, Heather Jessen, Arielle Kaplan, Jeremy Karn, Halee Kirkwood, Julia Kolchinsky, Veronica Kornberg, Mylo Lam, Lance Larsen, Éireann Lorsung, Carling McManus, Afton Montgomery, Stephanie Niu, Kimberly Ann Priest, Avery Robinson, Adrie Rose, Cintia Santana, Lauren Marie Schmidt, Jason Tandon, Ben Togut, Martine van Bijlert, Preeti Vangani, Lesley Wheeler and Simone Zapata.

Cover art by Martin Wittfooth.

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.