Barrow Street Book Prize Winner 2021
Elizabeth Hoover 2021
Book Prize Winner
chosen by
A. Van Jordan
Elizabeth Hoover's winning manuscript, the archive is in all present tense, will be published in 2022. She is a poet, essayist, and journalist who specializes in writing about contemporary art, literature, and film.

Her poetry has appeared in Narrative, Poetry Daily, and Crab Orchard Review, among others, and her creative nonfiction has been included in Lunch Ticket and StoryQuarterly. She received the 2017 Boulevard Emerging Poet Award, the 2015 Difficult Fruit Poetry Prize from Ithaca Lit, and the 2014 StoryQuarterly essay prize.

Available Titles
Liar
by Jessica Cuello

Winner of Barrow Street 2020 Poetry Prize chosen by
Dorianne Laux
NOW AVAILABLE
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"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
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
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
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
4 X 2
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