Beloit Poetry Journal

For more than sixty years of continuous publication, the Beloit Poetry Journal has been distinguished for the extraordinary range of our poetry and our discovery of strong new poets. Among those whose first or very early publication was in the BPJ are Galway Kinnell, W.S. Merwin, Anne Sexton, Sharon Olds, Philip Levine, Charles Bukowski, Adrienne Rich, A.E. Stallings, Susan Tichy, and Sherman Alexie. More recently, work by Bei Dao, Lucille Clifton, and Albert Goldbarth has appeared in our pages alongside work by Ben Lerner, Jessica Goodfellow, Garth Greenwell, and Mary Molinary, poets newer to publication but already at the top of their form. We make the final selections for each issue by reading poems aloud. A poem must speak for itself to make it into the BPJ.

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Beloit Poetry Journal - The Spring 2012 issue of the BPJ is a chapbook of poems of provocation and witness by featured readers at the 2012 Split This Rock Festival, including Homero Aridjis, Sherwin Bitsui, Carlos Andrés Gómez, Douglas Kearney, Marilyn Nelson, Naomi Shihab Nye, Khalid Mattawa, and Minnie Bruce Pratt.
Jan 23, 2012Comment

Beloit Poetry Journal - The BPJ editors have awarded the 2011 Chad Walsh Poetry Prize to Jenny Johnson for her crown of sonnets, "Aria." The prize comes this year with a stipend of $5,000. All poems published in 2012 in the journal will automatically be eligible for next year's prize.
Oct 31, 2011Comment

Beloit Poetry Journal - The Winter 2011/2012 issue of the BPJ includes new poetry by Bruce Bond, Brittany Cavallaro, Elizabeth T. Gray Jr., Justine el-Khazen, Stephen Malin, Eric Pankey, Emily Rosko, Pattabi Seshadri, Joe Wilkins, plus John Rosenwald's review of "Bad News and Good" in The Best American Poetry 2011.
Oct 31, 2011Comment

Beloit Poetry Journal - The Fall 2011 issue of the BPJ is devoted to a single extraordinary poem. Michael Broek's "The Logic of Yoo" probes the moral logic of George W. Bush's legal counsel during the Iraq War from the perspective of the protagonist, a graduate student who writes academic papers for hire.
Jul 16, 2011Comment

Beloit Poetry Journal updated their submission guidelines.

Beloit Poetry Journal - The electrifying Summer 2011 issue of the BPJ features poems by Fady Joudah, Alex Quinlan, Ranjani Neriya, and Susan Tichy, very contemporary sonnet sequences by Jenny Johnson and Tracy Zeman, and a symposium on gay poetry, politics, and poetics that continues online in June on our Poet's Forum.
May 3, 2011Comment

Beloit Poetry Journal - The Spring 2011 issue of the BPJ features a bilingual corrido by Eduardo C. Corral, winner of this year's Yale Younger Poet's Prize, new work by Daneen Wardrop, T.J. Jarrett, Traci Brimhall,Christopher Munde, and more, plus John Rosenwald's review of Anne Carson's Nox.
Feb 13, 2011Comment