Giving Tuesday
at Barrow Street Press 2022
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We are thankful for our readers and supporters at Barrow Street. As a small nonprofit, independent press, we rely on donors to help us keep poetry alive. The pandemic still presents challenges for the small press industry, and Barrow Street continues to need your support and donations more than ever.
This Tuesday, please consider a small donation for Barrow Street for the holidays. It helps us keep producing these beautiful titles and makes the publication of future titles possible. Thank you for your support! #givingtuesday #donate
Thank you for supporting Barrow Street.
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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
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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
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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
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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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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 is now closed.
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