Celebrating National Poetry Month with this compelling, incisive work by Fady Joudah, published by the BPJ in 2011.

A couple more weeks to polish your fabulous poems and submit them to the 2024 Adrienne Rich Award! As always, the BPJ offers a fee-free option if the reading fee presents a hardship. You know what to do! More info at bpj.org/submit/rich-aw…

Folks, it's a countdown! Send along your poems by April 30 (midnight EST)! bpj.org/submit/rich-aw…

Happy National Poetry Month! Read Hedgie Choi's full and fantastic poem here: bpj.org/works/v70n1p02…

Polish up those poems and send them our way—we’re excited to see your work! $1500 prize, all poems considered for publication, and Marilyn Chin as final judge. bpj.org/submit/rich-aw…

Happy weekend, poets! Now's the perfect time to send along your submissions to the Adrienne Rich Award! All work is considered for publication (yes, we appreciate long poems!), and we're delighted to have the esteemed Marilyn Chin as our judge this year. bpj.org/submit/rich-aw…

Still plenty of time to send your amazing poems to the BPJ! The Adrienne Rich Award provides a $1,500 prize for a single poem, and all submissions are considered for publication. As always, we offer a fee-free option if the reading fee presents a hardship. bpj.org/submit/rich-aw…

Time is ticking to submit to The Adrienne Rich Award 2024! Submissions close TOMORROW at midnight Eastern Time! Send along your beauties! 💜💜💜 bpj.org/submit/rich-aw…

Keep celebrating National Poetry Month by reading Taisia Kitaiskaia’s inventive “Poverty Bucket,” published in the BPJ’s 2017 summer issue! You can read the entire splendid poem here: bpj.org/contributors/k…

This is it, folks! Submit your poems by midnight (Eastern) tonight! We’re excited to read them. bpj.org/submit/rich-aw…

So pleased to nominate these excellent poets! Congrats Marcus and Laura!

The BPJ was lucky and honored to read so many stellar submissions to the Chad Walsh Chapbook Series! Congratulations to winner Pamela Alexander and the finalists!

"If forgiveness, uncoupled from the cross at our jugular, was a song we could know,/ you and I against innocence in a red karaoke duet of fessed mess then what/ were slights to scar the verses, cheats to bloody the bridge?" We're rereading Kemi Alabi's stunning debut this June!

We’re delighted to share our full roster of good news! Congratulations to our Chad Walsh Chapbook Series winner, finalists, semifinalists, and honorable mentions! bpj.org

From the BPJ archives, Deirdre Callanan’s serene “Opals Receive Their Coloration” is helping us savor the end of summer!

Congratulations to Dr. Taylor Byas, Ph.D., ARA winner and member of the BPJ Editorial Board, for winning the 2024 Ohioana Book Award in Poetry! Read excerpts of Taylor's gripping work in our archive, and check out an interview with Taylor here: bpj.org/interview/tayl…

Here's a peek at the cover of V73N2, which is heading to mailboxes this week! It features striking art by Martin Wittfooth. More from this gorgeous issue soon!

Exciting news! Our latest issue is out and it's brimming with stunning poems from Leila Chatti, Janan Alexandra, Jonathan Adriel Diaz, Lesley Wheeler, Alexis V. Jackson and many more. Check your mailbox, and if you aren't a subscriber yet, order your copy today! bpj.org/product/subscr…

Kick off your week (and your autumnal spirit) with John Tagliabue's "Blake says..." from the BPJ archives. This poem first appeared in the BPJ in the fall of 1978.

We’re delighted to share the results of the 2024 Adrienne Rich Award for Poetry! Please join the BPJ in celebrating our winner Kate Sweeney, along with our finalists, semifinalists, and Adrienne Rich’s legacy of urgent, world-aware poetry!