A Poetry Journal
Established August 1998

Winter 2009 Contributors:
Poems by:
Nick Admussen
Kazim Ali
Nin Andrews
Helen Barnard
Dennis Barone
Star Black
Jaswinder Bolina
David Casto
Penelope Cray
William Virgil Davis
Darcie Dennigan
Chris Forhan
Todd Fredson
Phillip Fried
Karen Garthe
Jules Gibbs
Gitahi Gititi
Kimiko Hahn
Mary Stewart Hammond
Jared Harel
Robert Harris
Jane Hayman

John Hennessy
Lois Hirshkowitz
Cynthia Hogue
Fanny Howe
Bergen Hutaff
Daniel Johnson
AM Juster
Robert Kelly
Geraldine Kim
Keetje Kuipers
Jason Labbe
Katy Lederer
Laurence Loeb
Jane Lowry
Michael Madonick
Dora Malech
Djelloul Marbrook
Cate Marvin
Roy Mash
Laura McCullough
Kevin McLellan
Hermine Meinhard
Fina Naranjo
Cami Nelson
Robin Pelzman
Leah Pollack
Kevin Prufer
Matt Rohrer
Tomaz Salamun
Gail Segal
Dorothy Stroud
Cole Swenson
Craig Morgan Teicher
Allison Titus
Elizabeth Twiddy
Sally Van Doren
Sarah Vap
W.R. Weinstein
Jordan Windholz
Changming Yuan
Kelleen Zubick
Rachel Zucker

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