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Forthcoming Barrow Street
Prose Contest 2023
Barrow Street is pleased to announce the Inaugural Barrow Street Prose Contest forthcoming in 2023! More information soon.
New Books
Person, Perceived Girl
A. A. Vincent

"'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
the archive is in all present tense
Elizabeth Hoover

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
Frank Dark
Stephen Massimilla

"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
Also Available
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
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
Barrow Street Journal
Barrow Street Journal Winter 2021-22
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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 is now closed.
4 X 2
The new issue of the 4x2 Project is now online. http://barrowstreet.org/press/4x2/. Come by for a quick read of some of the best new and emerging poets around!
If interested in reviewing and/or teaching any of these titles, please contact Sarah Kruse, Associate Editor at skruse.barrowstreet@gmail.com
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