The ''Beloit Poetry Journal'' is an American poetry magazine established in 1950 at

Beloit College Beloit College is a private liberal arts college in Beloit, Wisconsin, United States. Founded in 1846 when Wisconsin was still a territory, it is the state's oldest continuously operated college. It has an enrollment of roughly 1,000 undergradua ...

.Now it can be told: the true history of the Beloit Poetry Journal
By Marion K. Stocking, Beloit College It was formerly issued four times a year. Its frequency was switched to three times per year. It is based in

Windham, Maine Windham is a town in Cumberland County, Maine, United States. The population was 18,434 at the 2020 census. It includes the villages of South Windham and North Windham. It is part of the Portland-South Portland-Biddeford metropolitan area. ...

. The stated mission of the magazine is "to seek out and share work of fresh and lasting power, poems that speak startling, complicated, necessary truths and that do so in surprising and beautiful ways," and work "that pushes boundaries of content, aesthetic, and form." As a consequence of these policies they are known for sometimes publishing very long poems.Literary Magazines: Beloit Poetry Journal
''Poets & Writers'' Included among the poets whose work has been featured in Beloit are

Sherman Alexie Sherman Joseph Alexie Jr. (born October 7, 1966) is a Native American novelist, short story writer, poet, screenwriter, and filmmaker. His writings draw on his experiences as an Indigenous American with ancestry from several tribes. He grew up ...

, Bruce Bond,

Charles Bukowski Henry Charles Bukowski ( ; born Heinrich Karl Bukowski, ; August 16, 1920 – March 9, 1994) was a German Americans, German-American poet, novelist, and short story writer. His writing was influenced by the social, cultural, and economic ambien ...

, Maxine Cassin, Eduardo C. Corral, Patricia Goedicke, Albert Goldbarth, Ramon Guthrie, Janice N. Harrington, Lola Haskins, Janet Holmes,

Fady Joudah Fady Joudah (born 1971) is a Palestinian-American poet and physician. He is the 2007 winner of the Yale Series of Younger Poets Competition for his collection of poems '' The Earth in the Attic''. Life Joudah was born in Austin, Texas Aus ...

, Douglas Kearney, Galway Kinnell,

Maxine Kumin Maxine Kumin (June 6, 1925 – February 6, 2014) was an American poet and author. She was appointed Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 1981–1982. Biography Early years Maxine Kumin was born Maxine Winokur on June ...

, Mary Leader, Khaled Mattawa, and Sharon Olds.Beloit Poetry Journal
Duotrope, November 14, 2005Ocean Vuong Wins The 2013 Beloit Poetry Journal Chad Walsh Poetry Prize
Kundiman, November 14, 2013

Awards

Starting in 1993 and continuing up to 2017 the Beloit Poetry Journal annually awarded The Chad Walsh Poetry Prize.The Chad Walsh Poetry Prize
Beloit Poetry Journal Recipients have been: *1993 Kurt Leland *1994 Albert Goldbarth *1995

*1996 Robert Chute *1997 Mary Leader *1998 Lucia Perillo *1999 Janet Holmes *2000 Margaret Aho *2001 Glori Simmons *2002 Patricia Goedicke *2003 Mary Molinary *2004 Jessica Goodfellow *2005 Karl Elder *2006 Sam Reed *2007 Susan Tichy *2008 John Hodgen *2009 Onna Solomon *2010 Charles Wyatt *2011 Jenny Johnson *2012 Elizabeth T. Gray *2013 Ocean Vuong *2014 Fiona Chamness *2015 Graham Barnhart *2016 Marjorie Stelmach *2017 Michael Lavers In 2019 the ''Beloit Poetry Journal'' established the Adrienne Rich Award for Poetry which would award a fifteen hundred dollar prize for a single poem.Adrienne Rich Award for Poetry
Beloit Poetry Journal

References

External links

official web page
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