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Person, Perceived Girl
A. A. Vincent
Forthcoming Fall 2022
"'a body is a verb: closer to a kiss & closer to a reply' writes A.A. Vincent in a series of poems that explore bodies and their relationship to family, to social groups, and to the universe wherein a queer Black woman with disabilities adopted into a white family must learn the limits of understanding and love. The poems are deep and ask discomforting questions like why is 'so much of the world in strife with its body & its soul/hiding sickness in its prayers for goodness.' A marvelous collection for young readers as well as recalcitrant older readers. Lift it up and let it lift you up and change you."
~ D. A. Powell
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the archive is in all present tense
Elizabeth Hoover
Forthcoming Fall 2022
Winner of Barrow Street 2021 Poetry Prize selected by A. Van Jordan
"Works like a preservationist who leaves breadcrumbs for the generations that follow, so they’ll understand what was vital and what will continue to be vital for their time. Both the inventiveness of the conceit and the urgency in the content are incredibly compelling, and the language on these lines holds the passion of the present progressive. Sit down, put on your white gloves, and explore!"
~ A. Van Jordan
Barrow Street 2021 Contest Judge
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Frank Dark
Stephen Massimilla
Forthcoming June 2022
"In Frank Dark we are granted sudden and sustained access to the intimate conversation of Earth with History. Frond and fish, heron and horizon all account for themselves in lucent encounter with humanness and with the troubled human record. Stephen Massimilla moves far beyond social discourse, into a deeper, communal understanding of language and its fate. That love may be a portion of that fate is a hope these poems cherish beyond words."
~Donald Revell
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Meg Day
Last Psalm at Sea Level
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Curtis Bauer
American Selfie
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We have made the difficult decision to not attend AWP in-person this year due to health concerns of our editors and staff.
Featuring moderators Sharon Dolin and Peter Covino and readers Timothy Liu, Danielle Legros Georges, Claudia Keelan, Sally Ball, and Miguel Murphy.
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We are offering an AWP Book Sale now until March 31, 2022.
30% off all titles. Use coupon code AWP2022 at checkout. Orders of ten books or more also receive 40% discount on total purchase.
Thank you for your support!
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Barrow Street 2022 Book Prize
Now Open
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Barrow Street is pleased to announce that our 2022 Book Prize Contest is now open for submissions. Poet Tina Chang will judge this year's prize.
Tina Chang is an American poet, teacher, and editor. In 2010, she was the first woman to be named Poet Laureate of Brooklyn and she continues to serve in this role. She is the author of three poetry collections: Hybrida (W. W. Norton, May 2019), Of Gods & Strangers (Four Way Books, 2011), and Half-Lit Houses (Four Way Books, 2004). Tina Chang received her MFA in poetry from Columbia University. She is a professor and Director of Creative Writing at her alma mater, Binghamton University.
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Liar
by Jessica Cuello
Winner of Barrow Street 2020 Poetry Prize chosen by
Dorianne Laux
"A highly original vision, voice, concept, style, language and image all working together to produce a world inside our world. Filled with fire and violence, mystery and magic, the loneliness of laundromats, rented houses, suicide, cornfields, hunger, and ultimately a naked raw survival, “charred walls pulled back from the frame.”
~Dorianne Laux
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The Little Book of No Consolation
by Becka Mara McKay
"'How strange it is to live in these bodies/and pretend we are not judged,' writes Becka McKay in her newest collection, The Little Book of No Consolation. McKay's imagination takes us far away from our earthly bodies through dreamscapes of terror and possibility. With a fanciful Dictionary of Misremembered English and mistranslated phrases as her guide, she reimagines Biblical figures, governments, and language's very syntax. McKay spins her poems as though spinning plates, on a pole of syntax all her own, the gyroscopic effect dazzling."
~Denise Duhamel
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Shoreditch
by Miguel Murphy
"Miguel Murphy's poems—terse, grave, erudite—offer gleaming surfaces for a reader to savor: traces of a heroic, louche tradition, where Novarro, Genet, Lorca, Pasolini, and other role models still make possible new discoveries about martyrdom and ecstasy. In Shoreditch, we cruise the epitaphs, reenact the melodramas, and taste the paradoxes, almost Sapphic in their concentration, their hieratic fruit-forwardness. Murphy tailors the pleasure-pain conundrum in a sublimely minimalist style that I want always to be wearing."
~Wayne Koestenbaum
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On The Verge of Something
Bright and Good
by Derek Pollard
"Ranging between richly textured narratives and artful experiments in form, Derek Pollard’s poems are enviable for the breadth of their imagination. Sometimes richly conversational, sometimes ornately lyrical, here is the gleeful zeal of the avant-gardist meeting the reverential mind of the metaphysician. The result is a singular poetry that delights and lingers long after the reading is done."
~ Jaswinder Bolina
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New Journal Issue Now Available |
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Barrow Street Journal Winter 2021-22
Order your copy now!
Poets include Denise Duhamel, Vievee Francis, Dorianne Laux, Pablo Medina, Mihaela Moscaliuc,
D. Nurske, Matthew Olzmann, Simon Perchik, Simone Savannah, Judith Volmer, and Michael Waters.
Submission deadline for the next issue is March 31, 2022.
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If interested in reviewing and/or teaching any of these titles, please contact Sarah Kruse, Associate Editor at skruse.barrowstreet@gmail.com
Free Desk Copy with course adoption.
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