BARROW STREET
A Poetry Journal Established August 1998
Winter 2024/2025 Issue Is Here!
We are very pleased to announce that our Winter 2024/2025 issue is here! Poets in this issue include Susan Kay Uebelhoer Andreassen, Priscilla Atkins, Tina Barr, Miranda Beeson, Don Boes, Gaylord Brewer, Joel Brouwer, Patrick Carr, Dorsey Craft, Elizabeth Diebold, Liza Katz Duncan, Jason Fraley, Mary Gilliland, Laura Goldin, Mónica Gomery, Katherine Hays, Jennifer Juneau, Jason Labbe, Seth Leeper, Paul Lojeski, Zachary Lundgren, Stephen Massimilla, Edward Mayes, Sandy McIntosh, Amanda Newell, Matt Ott, Eric Pankey, Charlie Peck, Donald Platt, T. R. Poulson, Chelsea Querner, Eva Salzman Rikki, Santer Carrie Shippers, Alex Silberman, Steven Ray Smith, Tim Suermondt, Derek JG Williams, and Stella Wong.
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