A Poetry Journal
Established August 1998

Winter 2007 Contributors:
Poems by:
Talvikki Ansel
Linda Baldanzi
Mary Jo Bang
Helen Barnard
Jeanne Marie Beaumont
Sandra Beasley
CL Bledsoe
Deborah Bogen
Terri Brandmueller
Melisa Cahnmann-Taylor
Janet Chalmers
Leslie Chang
Jan Conn
Laura Cronk
Tony D’Arpino
Jehanne Dubrow
Denise Duhamel
Cathryn Essinger
Annie Finch
Thomas Fink
Mary Flanagan
Sarah Gambito
Heather Green
Rachel Hadas
Otis Haschemeyer
David Hawkins
Bergen Hutaff
Megin Jimenez
Dayna Kurtz
Labbe Jason
David Dodd Lee
David Lehman
Amy Lemmon
Teresa Leo
Phillis Levin
Ada Limon
Cynthia Lowen
Shani Manor
Campbell McGrath
Sandy McIntosh
Dennis Nurkse
Eugene Ostashevsky
Sarah Paley
Anna Rabinowitz
Dana Roeser
Margaret Peters Schwed
Carrie Shipers
Alex Silberman
Aaron Smith
Maura Stanton
Myrna Stone
Terese Svoboda
Chad Sweeney
Maria Terrone
Meredith Trede
W.R.Weinstein
Jillian Weise
Sample poems from past issues:  ( For all contributors see Past Issues.)
Judith Baumel
Geoff Bouvier
Stephen Burt
Trent Busch
Tina Cane
Liza Charlesworth
Sharon Chmielarz
Ray DiPalma
Patrick Donnelly
Stephen Dunn
Jeffrey Encke
Jennifer Michael Hecht
Jane Hirshfield
Emily Fragos
Taj Jackson
Annie Kantar
Joy Katz
David Lehman
Richard Lehnert
Jeffrey Levine
Pablo Medina
Aimee Nezhukumatathil
Jason Ott
Ishle Yi Park
Donald Revell
William Rushton
Angela Rydell
Amanda Schaffer
Lacy Schutz
Hilary Sideris
Charlie Smith
Vanessa Stauffer
Paula Szuchman
Jean Valentine
Jerry Williams
Susan S. Williams
Scott Withiam
Robert Wrigley
Rachel Zucker

 



Prizes/Awards:
Poems from Barrow Street have been selected for inclusion in several recent volumes of The Best American Poetry, edited respectively by Heather McHugh (2007), Billy Collins (2006), Paul Muldoon, (2005), Yusef Komunyakaa (2003), Robert Creeley (2002), Robert Hass (The 2001), and Rita Dove (2000).

Kazim Ali "The Art of Breathing" Summer 2006
     -Best American Poetry 2007
Ed Ochester "Voltaire at Cirey, 1736" Winter 2005
     -Best American Poetry 2007
Craig Arnold "Couple from Hell" Summer 2005
     -Best American Poetry 2006
Christine Scanlon "The Grilled Cheese Sandwich" Summer 2004
     -Best American Poetry 2005
Ishle Yi Park "Queen Min Bee" Summer2002
     -Best American Poetry 2003
Diane di Prima "Midsummer" Winter 2001
     -Best American Poetry 2002
D. Nurkse "Snapshot from Niagra" Winter 2001
     -Best American Poetry 2002
Kathleen Ossip "The Nature of Things" Summer 2000
     -Best American Poetry 2001
Denise Duhamel "Incest Taboo" Spring 1999
     -Best American Poetry 2000
Kim Addonizio "Virgin Spring" Fall 1998
     -Best American Poetry 2000