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. Founded in 1846, when Wisconsin was still a territory, it is the state's oldest continuously operated college. It is a member of the Associated Colleges of the Midwest and has ...

.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 New England town, town in Cumberland County, Maine, Cumberland County, Maine, United States. The population was 18,434 at the 2020 United States Census, 2020 census. It includes the villages of South Windham, Maine, South Windham and ...

. 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 Spokane- Coeur d'Alene-Native American novelist, short story writer, poet, screenwriter, and filmmaker. His writings draw on his experiences as an Indigenous American with ancestry from se ...

, Bruce Bond,

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

, Maxine Cassin, Eduardo C. Corral,

Patricia Goedicke Patricia Goedicke (June 21, 1931 – July 14, 2006) was an American poet. Biography Born Patricia McKenna in Boston, Massachusetts, she grew up in Hanover, New Hampshire, where her father was a resident psychiatrist at Dartmouth College. During ...

Albert Goldbarth Albert Goldbarth (born January 31, 1948) is an American poet. He has won the National Book Critics Circle award for "Saving Lives" (2001) and "Heaven and Earth: A Cosmology" (1991), the only poet to receive the honor two times. He also won the Mar ...

, Ramon Guthrie,

Janice N. Harrington Janice N. Harrington is an American storyteller, poet, and children's writer. Life She grew up in Vernon, Alabama. Her family moved to Lincoln, Nebraska to escape racial segregation when she was eight. She now lives in Illinois. Her work appe ...

Lola Haskins Lola Haskins is an American poet. Life She was born in New York, and raised in northern California. Haskins has lived in San Francisco, Greece, and Mexico. She now divides her time between Northern England and North-Central Florida. She has pub ...

, Janet Holmes,

Fady Joudah Fady Joudah 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 in 1971 to Palestinian r ...

Douglas Kearney Douglas Kearney (born 1974) is an American poet, performer and librettist. Kearney grew up in Altadena, California. His work has appeared in ''Nocturnes'', ''Jubilat'', ''Beloit Poetry Journal'', ''Gulf Coast'', ''Poetry'', ''Pleiades'', ''Iow ...

Galway Kinnell Galway Mills Kinnell (February 1, 1927 – October 28, 2014) was an American poet. He won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for his 1982 collection, ''Selected Poems'' and split the National Book Award for Poetry with Charles Wright. From 1989 to 1 ...

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 Khaled Mattawa (born 1964) is a Libyan poet, and a renowned Arab-American writer, he is also a leading literary translator, focusing on translating Arabic poetry into English. He works as an Assistant professor of creative writing at the Univers ...

, and

Sharon Olds Sharon Olds (born November 12, 1942) is an American poet. Olds won the first San Francisco Poetry Center Award in 1980, the 1984 National Book Critics Circle Award, and the 2013 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry.

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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

*1995

*1996 Robert Chute *1997 Mary Leader *1998

Lucia Perillo Lucia Maria Perillo (September 30, 1958 – October 16, 2016) was an American poet. In 2000, Perillo was recognized with a "genius grant" as part of the MacArthur Fellows Program. Life and career Perillo was born in Manhattan on September 30, 19 ...

*1999 Janet Holmes *2000 Margaret Aho *2001

Glori Simmons Glori Simmons is an American poet, and short story writer. Simmons graduated from the University of Washington and from the University of Michigan with an MFA. She was a 2003 Stegner Fellow at Stanford University. She is the author of ''Graft/P ...

*2002

*2003 Mary Molinary *2004 Jessica Goodfellow *2005 Karl Elder *2006 Sam Reed *2007

Susan Tichy Susan Elizabeth Tichy (born 25 April 1952, in Washington, D.C.) is an American poet. Life She received a B.A. from Goddard College and an M.A. from the University of Colorado, and is a Full Professor at George Mason University, where she has tau ...

*2008 John Hodgen *2009 Onna Solomon *2010 Charles Wyatt *2011 Jenny Johnson *2012 Elizabeth T. Gray *2013

Ocean Vuong Ocean Vuong (born , ; October 14, 1988) is a Vietnamese American poet, essayist, and novelist. Vuong is a recipient of the 2014 Ruth Lilly/Sargent Rosenberg fellowship from the Poetry Foundation, a 2016 Whiting Award, and the 2017 T.S. Eliot Pr ...

*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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