BARROW STREET
A Poetry Journal Established August 1998
Winter 2022-23 Issue Is Here!
We are very pleased to announce that our Winter 2022-23 issue is here! Poets in this issue include Deborah Allbritain, Jan Beatty, Lilly Bechtel, Martine van Bijlert, CL Bledsoe, Don Bogen, Brandel France de Bravo, Karen Brennan, Erika Brumett, Beverly Burch, Kevin Cantwell, Guillermo Filice Castro, Julie Choffel, Wes Civilz, Steven Cramer, Ruth Danon, Malcolm Dean, Emma DePanise, Lynn Domina, Wendy Drexler, Daniel Faria, Thomas Fink, Jan Freeman, Rebecca Kaiser Gibson, E Laura Goldberg, Jonathan Greenhause, Benjamin Grossberg, Vernita Hall, Mark Halliday, Graham Hillard, Ann Hudson, Justin Hunt, Mark Kraushaar, Ashley Kunsa, Heather Lanier, Lance Larsen, Stacie Leatherman, Viola Lee, Richard Lehnert, Emily Leithauser, Meara Levezow, Zach Linge, Morgan Liphart, Leigh Lucas, Elisabeth Murawski, Barbara Murphy, Burt Myers, Greg Nicholl, Derek Otsuji, Alexandria Peary, Ann Pedone, Barry Peters, Christine Poreba, Susan Azar Porterfield, Doug Ramspeck, Hannah Star Rogers, Suzanne Manizza Roszak, Liana Sakelliou, Tomaž Šalamun, E. M. Schorb, Ellen McGrath Smith, Arthur Solway, Scott Strom, Matthew Thorburn, Spencer Thurlow, Nikki Ummel, Julie Marie Wade, Ellen Doré Watson, Pamela Wax, Alice White, Mike White, Jay Wickersham, Scott Withiam, and James Wyshynski.
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Read selected poems from recent issues by B.J. Best, Bernadette Geyer, Gerry LaFemina, Paul Lojeski, and Pascal Petit.
Awards for Barrow Street
Prizes/Awards:
Poems from Barrow Street have been selected for inclusion in several recent volumes of The Best American Poetry, edited respectively by Terrence Hayes (2014), Denise Duhamel (2013), Mark Doty (2012) David Wagoner (2009), Charles Wright (2008), Heather McHugh (2007), Billy Collins (2006), Paul Muldoon, (2005), Yusef Komunyakaa (2003), Robert Creeley (2002), Robert Hass (The 2001), and Rita Dove (2000).
Best American Poetry 2014
Ray Gonzalez, "One El Paso, Two El Paso" Winter 2014
Best American Poetry 2013
Stephanie Strickland, "Introductions" Winter 2013
Best American Poetry 2012
Erica Dawson, "Back Matter" Winter 2012
Best American Poetry 2009
Denise Duhamel, "How It Will End" Winter 2007
Best American Poetry 2008
Charles Bernstein, "Ku(na)hay" Summer 2007
D. Nurkse, "The Gate of Abraham" Winter 2007
Lee Upton, "Thomas Hardy" Winter 2006
Best American Poetry 2007
Kazim Ali "The Art of Breathing" Summer 2006
Daniel Johnson "Do Unto Others" Summer 2006
Thomas Fink, "Yinglish Strophes IX" Winter 2005
Ed Ochester "Voltaire at Cirey, 1736" Winter 2005
Best American Poetry 2006
Craig Arnold "Couple from Hell" Summer 2005
Best American Poetry 2005
Christine Scanlon "The Grilled Cheese Sandwich" Summer 2004
Best American Poetry 2003
Ishle Yi Park "Queen Min Bee" Summer 2002
Best American Poetry 2002
Diane di Prima "Midsummer" Winter 2001
D. Nurkse "Snapshot from Niagra" Winter 2001
Best American Poetry 2001
Kathleen Ossip "The Nature of Things" Summer 2000
Best American Poetry 2000
Denise Duhamel "Incest Taboo" Spring 1999
Kim Addonizio "Virgin Spring" Fall 1998