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Beloit Poetry Journal
P.O. Box 151
Farmington, ME 04938
Phone: (207) 778-0020
E-mail: bpj <at> bpj <dot> org
Web: www.bpj.org
Simultaneous submissions: no Email submissions: no Online submissions: yes Reading period: year-round Response time: 1 week-4 months Payment: copies Contests: no (see website for Chad Walsh Prize) ISSN: 0005-8661 Founded: 1950 Issues per year: 4 Distributors: Media Solutions, Ubiquity Average pages: 48 Sample copy (postpaid): $5 Copy Price: $5 Subscription (Individuals): $18 Subscription (Libraries): $23
Publisher’s Description: For over sixty years of continuous publication, the Beloit Poetry Journal has published poetry that matters. We have 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, Susan Stewart, Susan Tichy, and Sherman Alexie. More recently, work by Bei Dao, Lucille Clifton, Albert Goldbarth, and Sonya Sanchez has graced our pages alongside that of younger poets such as Kerry James Evans, Jessica Goodfellow, Garth Greenwell, Ben Lerner, and Mary Molinary. We make the final selections for each issue by reading poems aloud without identifying the author. A poem must speak for itself to make it into the BPJ.
Jeannine Hall Galey, writing for NewPages.com, says of us: “The Beloit Poetry Journal is one of the journals that poetry junkies in the know call a must-read because of the consistent quality of the poetry they publish . . . and the terrific reviews. There can be no ‘ho-hum’ response to this journal.... I thrill to the emotional zing and wit of every single poem."
Recent issues:
The BPJ inaugurates its 61st year with an issue (Fall 2010) featuring Mary Jo Thompson’s sonnet sequence on a marriage, new work by Kerry James Evans, Garth Greenwell, Christopher Howell, Kirun Kapur, Karen Lepri, Norman Lock, Amy Schutzer, Dwayne Thorpe, and Joe Wilkins, plus a round robin of reviews by the editors.
The Summer 2010 issue of the BPJ is a chapbook of new poems by 16 winners of its annual Chad Walsh Prize: Margaret Aho, Sherman Alexie, Robert Chute, Karl Elder, Albert Goldbarth, Jessica Goodfellow, John Hodgen, Janet Holmes, Mary Leader, Kurt Leland, Mary Molinary, Lucia Perillo, Sam Reed, Glori Simmons, Onna Solomon, and Susan Tichy.
The Spring 2010 issue of the BPJ, now in its 60th year of continuous publication, includes poems by Jennifer Atkinson, Michele Battiste, Temple Cone, Christopher GoGwilt, Sandra Kohler, Jacquelyn Malone, and Charles Wyatt, Nan Watkins’s translations of Yvan Goll, and a conversation with Coleman Barks about Rumi and music.