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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.

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The editors of the Beloit Poetry Journal are delighted to announce that they have selected Pamela Alexander's Left for this year's title in the Chad Walsh Chapbook Series.

Pamela Alexander is the author of four previous collections of poetry, including Slow Fire. Other books were awarded the Yale Younger Poet and Iowa Poetry Prizes, and her work has appeared in many periodicals and anthologies. She taught creative writing at MIT and Oberlin College for many years, and served on the editorial board of FIELD magazine. Her honors include fellowships at the Fine Arts Work Center and at the Harvard-Radcliffe Institute. She lives in Maine.

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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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.

Of alexandra's poem, Marie Howe writes, "I kept coming back to this poem—which looks deceptively simple: folding sheets at the communal laundry line.  But what it holds is so much: one and many, what is and what might be, you and me, head and heart, garden and the appearance of garden, the present and the future—all bundled into the now of folding, matching one frowning corner of a sheet to another.  Form and Matter indeed. And I felt addressed as a reader, folded in, included in this poet's philosophical reverie, and I felt joy."

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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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TC Tolbert's chapbook, "The Quiet Practices," is now available! 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.