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Congratulations to Mil Norman-Risch, her poem, "the house, the marriage: how we knew" won the American Poet Prize for 2007 and will be published in the next issue of APJ.
APJ Volume 4, Issue 1 is now available. The issue features works by Naveed Alam, Lea Banks, Nicolas A. Destino, Patricia Fargnoli, Lola Haskins, Melissa Holm, Jennifer Juneau, Dorianne Laux, Jeffrey Levine, Anne Power, Doug Ramspeck, C. J. Sage, Natasha Sajé, Sarah J. Sloat, Alexandra van de Kamp, and Adam Edison Watkins
Congratulations to Theodore Worozbyt, his second book, Letters of Transit, won the Juniper Prize in 2007 and will be published in 2008. His book is due out in early 2008, from the University of Massachusetts Press.
Congratulations to Matthew Guenette, the winner of the APJ Book Prize for his manuscript, Sudden Anthem.
All previous issue and future issues are now indexed by the INDEX OF AMERICAN PERIODICAL VERSE ( Lanham , MD : Scarecrow Press).
APJ Volume 3, Issue 2 is now out and available! The issue features art by Stephen Moody and poetry by Juda Bennett, Sarah Blackman, Kim Bridgford, Jehanne Dubrow, DGB Featherkile, Rodney Gomez,
Christina Lovin, Judy Kronenfeld, Bob McHeffey, Corey Mesler, Robert Moyer, Matthew Olzmann, Robert Parham, Susan Richmond, Jay Rubin, C. J. Sage, Robert Simon, John Thomas, and Eliot Khalil Wilson.The American Poetry Journal congratulates Sarah Blackman living in Alabama for winning the 2006 American Poet Prize with her poem “Digitalis.” Ms. Blackman will receive a prize of $300 and the winning poem will appear in the next issue of The American Poetry Journal, Volume 3, Issue 2.
APJ Volume 3, Issue 1 is now out and available! The issue features art by Nancy Christy-Moore and poetry by Stuart Bartow, Ronda Broatch, Debra Bruce, Jacob Burd, Linda Hillman Chayes, Heather Dobbins, M. Frost, Kelle Groom, Gayle Ellen Harvey, Joseph Heithaus, Anne McGrath Hochberg, Tom C. Hunley, Sari Krosinsky, Greg McBride, D.O. Moore, Brianna Noll, Rebecca Patrascu, F. D. Reeve, Lauren Rusk, Steven D. Schroeder, Lori Sudeck, Sara Talpos, Susan Varnot, Joseph Voth, Grace Wilentz.
The first American Poetry Journal Book Prize goes to Theodore Worozbyt for his full length book manuscript, The Dauber Wings. His book will be published sometime in early 2007.
Verse Daily ran four poems from APJv2I2! Congrats to C.J. Sage's "The Dark Pelican", Cassie Sparkman's "Cupid and the Party Dress", Theodore Worozbyt's "When I Was Gone to Summer", and Nicole Cuddeback's "Holy Spirit."
The fourth issue of The American Poetry Journal featuring: poems by Jackie Bartley, Kristin Berger, Gaylord Brewer, Garrett J. Brown, Edward Byrne, Dane Cervine, Jeannine Hall Gailey, Paul Gibbons, Anne McGrath Hochberg, Tom Holmes, Rhett Iseman, John P. Kristofco, Daniel J. Langton, S.D. Lishan, Dawn Lonsinger, Joanne Lowery, M. B. McLatchey, M.K. Meder, C. J. Sage, Theodore Worozbyt, this year's American Poet Prize winner, Nicole Cuddeback
The American Poetry Journal congratulates Nicole Cuddeback living in Firenze, Italy for winning the 2005 American Poet Prize with her poem “Holy Spirit.” Ms. Cuddeback will receive a prize of $300 and the winning poem will appear in the next issue of The American Poetry Journal, Volume 2, Issue 2.
- APJ announces The American Poetry Journal book prize deadline is February 28, 2006!
- FOUR poems from APJv2i1 were featured on Verse Daily! Margot Schilpp's "Enter, Fall"; Lynne Knight's "Vermont Barn"; Kelli Russell Agodon's "Love Song to My Neighborhoods"; and Mary Christine Delea's "How to Talk to Your Yard as If It’s Your Lover."
- The third American Poet Prize deadline is June 30, 2006.
- The American Poetry Journal's third issue features work by: Kelli Russell Agodon, Maureen Alsop, Kristin Berger, E.G. Burrows, Mary Crow, Mary Christine Delea, Jehanne Dubrow, Ruth Moon Kempher, John P. Kristofco, Lynne Knight, Sari Krosinsky, M. B. McLatchey, Andrew H. Oerke, Alison Pelegrin, Jennifer Reeser, Susan Rich, C. J. Sage, Margot Schilpp, Mike White with cover art by Anna L. Conti.
- Two poems from APJv1i2 were selected by Verse Daily: Jennifer Michael Hecht's "Catch," B.L.P. Simmons's "Garden of the Material" and Jeannine Hall Gailey's "Wonder Woman Dreams of the Amazon."
- Issue one has sold out! Get the second issue before it's too late!
- Three poems from APJ's first issue were selected by Verse Daily: Hannah Stein's "It is the Soul"; Jason Gray's "A H O Y !"; and Hailey Leithauser's "Angel Shark."
- The American Poetry Journal congratulates Beth Bachmann
of Nashville, Tennessee for winning the 2004 American Poet Prize with her poem
“Hive.” Ms. Bachmann will receive a
prize of $300 and the winning poem will appear in the next issue of the American Poetry
Journal, Volume 1, Issue 2.
APJ v2i2:
"I just received the latest issue of APJ and I had to write to you! This issue is
wonderful again. I’m so used to seeing mediocre poetry wrapped in a glitzy package
and sold as great, but your magazine is the real
deal. APJ has restored my faith in poetry magazines. I believe again! Thank you, thank
you, THANK YOU!"
— Richard Johnson
APJ v2i1:
"Another fine issue. The opening poem is a real find. I am happy to see some familiar names and their contributions. As always, every time I read APJ, I am struck with an urge to go write a million poems... Thank you for making APJ worth every penny and more every time out of the gate."
— Justin Evans
APJ v1i2:
"I just finished Issue Two, and have to tell you how impressed I am. ...
this is wonderful, cover to cover. Some poets I already follow avidly, and some wonderful
new (to me) introductions. Very well done indeed.
The bit on the website about sevenlings, and the introduction to Roddy Lumsden, are also
much appreciated.
Thank you, thank you, thank you"
— Jennifer Thorton
APJ v1i1:
“The twenty-nine poems (by sixteen writers) benefit from careful lay-out. The book
contains little in the way of the short-line lyrics that generally fill independent
literary magazines.…And nature and mythology are subjects referred to by more than
one poem in the issue. To APJ’s credit, there is little pretension in the
treatments of these subjects.
— Literary Magazine Review, Vol. 22, No. 3