Poetry Quarterly is published 4 times a year. Our spring edition is usually lighter. Each edition is edited by our primary editor, and he/she may be assisted by a guest editor and/or ghost editors.
Our website serves as a companion to our print journal. Inclusion in Poetry Quarterly is very competitive. We can only accept a small percentage of the poems submitted.
Submissions are now open. We rarely close submissions but we do occasionally. There is no predetermined schedule.
ALEXANDER TAN JR., ALISON PEOPLES, AUDREY WALSTROM, BARB BROOKS, BENJAMIN FISCHER, CAROLINE SAMPLES, CARRIE JOYCE-FOWLER, CHLOE VINER
CHRISTOPHER KELLER, CONSTANCE KRAMER, CORT BLEDSOE, DAN SIMMONS, DAVID RIDDLE III, DAVID STALLINGS, DONIA MOUNSEF, DOUGLAS OLMSTEAD, EDGAR LEWIS THORNTON, GENEVIEVE BETTS, GEOFF CAIN, J. J. STEINFELD, JOHN GREY, KAREN AN-HWEI LEE, KATIE VAGNINO, KELLELYNNE H. RILEY, KELLI ALLEN, KENNETH ALEWINE, KIRBY WRIGHT, LUKE EVANS, LUKE WHISNANT, MANGESH NAIK, MARK SIMPSON, MARY KATHRYN WILEY, MATT HENRY, MATTHEW BROWN, MAX KEANU, MEREDITH DEVNEY, MIA CARTMILL, MICHAEL LEWIS-BECK,
MICHAEL MILBURN, MICHELE REESE, MICHELLE MEIER, MONICA STOVER, MP POWERS, NATHANAEL TAGG, NATHAN HUNT, NINA E. LARSEN, PEYCHO KANEV,
PHYLLIS TEPLITZ, RACHEL KING, RACHEL MARSOM-RICHMOND, REBEKAH ANKER,
SAMUEL HOVDA, SIERRA BELLOWS, SIOBHAN CASEY, ZACH FECHTER
And our special featured poets: Ed Galing and Doug Holder.
Imagine how happy I was to be asked to review a new book released by the winner of last year’s Rebecca Lard award. I recognized the beauty of her poems instantly, and I was delighted to hear our judge picked her poem, The Season Begins in a Waiting Room, from the hundreds of submissions we received.
I’m talking about Susan Davis, of course, and the book I am reviewing is, “I Was Building Up To Something” (Moon Tide Press).
This collection of poetry is filled with fully-matured wisdom and spirituality. The deep-reaching voice seems to call to readers, providing an unexpected connection with the work. It feels deeply personal, even familiar, as though these poems have been lost somehow, and are being rediscovered all over again. The clarity and vision of the collection as a whole is bursting with the icons of family and culture. When reading these works, an extension of Davis bleeds into the words, filling the reader with tenderness and longing, including reverent moments that only the ache of violence or the tender closeness of family can evoke. “I Was Building Up To Something” is a collection readers will return to again and again. One of the best books I have read in years.
Glenn Lyvers
Editor, Poetry Quarterly
The winners of this year’s (2011) Lard award are:
Nancy Kassell – Wild Type (Grand Prize Winner)
Nancy Kassell’s work has appeared in Notre Dame Review, Borderlands, Eclipse, Willow Springs, Peregrine, Westview, Salamander, and in the anthologies Verse and Universe: Poems about Science and Mathematics, and Family Reunion: Poems about Parenting Grown Children. She lives in Brookline, MA.
Runners up:
Kelli Allen – Words for Reach, Lines for Falling
Mary Elizabeth Parker – Grakles In the Wind
Mary Elizabeth Parker – Hurt
Samuel Hovda – According to My Memories
Carol Munn – Virgen de Los Desamparados
Carol Munn – Christmas in the Pyrenees
Congratulations to the winners!
We will announce the Lard award winners very soon. We received the results from the judge two days ago so check back soon for that announcement.
The Spring issue was delayed for the contest. It is almost ready to go to print!
The 2011 Summer issue is now available (Always free) online. Click the “Issues” link.
Congratulations to all the poets.
Congratulations to the following poets featured in the Summer 2011 Issue.
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A.J. Huffman, A. Molotkov, Alessandra Bava, Andrea Alterman, Chris Siteman, Christina Murphy, Christopher Keller, Cindy King, Danny Earl Simmons, Elysia Willis, Geoff M. Pope, Gregory Stenta, Helen Steadman, Henry Leeker, Ivy Page, Janet Butler, Jennifer Givhan, Joseph Cruse, Kevin Spenst, Madeline Mangiaracina, Martin Stolen, Maureen Kingston, Michael Milburn, Michael Postel, Michelle Gottschlich, Michelle Tooker, N Ayara Stein, Nancy Long, Nandini Dhar, Oindri Sengupta, Peggy Aylsworth, Peycho Kanev, Rebecca Boyle, Ricky Garni, Samuel Haynes, Samuel Hovda, Silvi Saxena, Stephanie Knipper, Steve De France, Tom Holmes, Wendy Thornton, William Cordeiro, Zach Fechter
Shaindel Beers
Shaindel Beers’ first full-length poetry collection, A Brief History of Time, was released by Salt Publishing in 2009. She is at work on her second collection, The Children’s War and serves as Poetry Editor of Contrary (http://contrarymagazine.com/). Find her online at http://shaindelbeers.com/. She is currently an instructor of English at Blue Mountain Community College in Pendleton, Oregon, in Eastern Oregon’s high desert.