A Poetry Journal
Established August 1998

Winter 2011-2012 Contributors:
Poems by:
Dan Albergotti
Benjamin Aleshire
Helen P. Barnard
Meredith Bergmann
John Brehm
Darin Ciccotelli
Stephen Cramer
Kathy Davis
Patrick Donnelly
Wendy Drexler
Thomas Fink
Mary Flanagan
John Foy
Andrea Fry
Seth Graves
Juliana Gray
Rachel Hadas

Jessica D. Hand
Peter Harris
Cynthia Hogue
Bergen Hutaff
Leah Iannone
Julie Kane
Victoria Korth
Gerry LaFemina
Julie Lein
Marie-Elizabeth Mali
Sandy McIntosh
Alison D. Moncrieff
Michael Morical
Jesse Nissim
Kathleen Ossip
Sarah Paley
Robert Parham
Elizabeth Powell
Nate Pritts
Claudia Putnam
Natasha Saje
Faisal Siddiqui
Richard Sime
Amanda Smeltz
Doug Sutton-Ramspeck
Fiona Sze-Lorrain
Leah Umansky
Jennifer Wallace
John Walser
Carola Walton
W. R. Weinstein
Mike White
Jane Wong
Ryo Yamaguchi

WORKS IN PROGRESS
Stephanie Strickland

SPECIAL FEATURE
Doug Sutton-Ramspeck
Poems from Mechanical Fireflies
Winner, 2010 Barrow Street Book Prize, selected by
Mary Ruefle
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 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 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" Summer2002
    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