The American Poetry Review

This just in: Margaret Atwood on the APR Podcast! Join us as the author discusses (and reads from) Dearly, her new collection of poems. https://podlink.to/apr

Hey hey: November/December cover reveal! The new issue features new work from Ada Limón , Adrian Matejka, Emily Carr, and many more. Some of it is on the site, but if you subscribed, it would be on its away to your doorstep in its entirety. Get 12 months of The American Poetry Review for less than $5 per issue with CODE: APRSOCIAL via this link: https://loom.ly/jw33Kgk

Last days to submit! For over two decades, The APR/Honickman First Book Prize has been jump-starting the careers of some of America’s most vital poets. Are you next? This year’s guest judge: Ada Limon Submissions open now through October 31st. Learn more and submit here: https://americanpoetryreview.submittable.com/submit

To do today: Read the rest of Stephen S. Mills' "In Life We Dance At A Gay Bar Named After A Dead First Lady," from the current issue. It's a whole mood. https://loom.ly/TaFiJdw

Congratulations to longtime APR contributor Louise Glück, winner of the 2020 Nobel Prize in Literature "for her unmistakable poetic voice that with austere beauty makes individual existence universal." We can testify. As a special #tbt, here's her first APR cover and four poems from the magazine's Vol. 4, No. 4 (July/August 1975).

SUBMISSIONS OPEN THRU OCT. 31: APR's Honickman First Book Prize makes news: Just in the last week, last year's winner, Chessy Normile, was featured in the NYT, and Ada Limón, this year's judge, was featured by ABC. Our first book prize has launched the careers of poets who then went on to earn Pulitzers and Guggenheims. And they've all started with that great first manuscript. Have you got one you'd like to share with us? We'd love to have a look. https://americanpoetryreview.submittable.com/submit

"A jokey line may hide a painful line. As one reads deeper in the book, the trapdoors lead to deeper pits... Normile’s poems can trick you this way they trick you into feeling more than you were quite prepared to feel." -- @Elisa Gabbert on Chessy Normile's Great Exodus, Great Wall, Great Party in the The New York Times Book Review today. https://loom.ly/JsG_sio

Joy Priest's A Personal History of Breathing is the winner of the 2020 Stanley Kunitz Memorial Prize, an award established by APR to honor the late Stanley Kunitz's dedication to mentoring poets. Read it in full here: https://aprweb.org/poems/a-personal-history-of-breathing

The APR/Honickman FIRST Book Prize. For over two decades, this prize has been jump-startingthe careers of some of America’s most vital poets. Are you next? This year’s guest judge: Ada Limón Submissions open now through October 31st. Learn more and submit: https://americanpoetryreview.submittable.com/submit

Breaking news! APR has been awarded a grant from The Literary Arts Emergency Fund for $10,000. We'd like to express our profound gratitude for what they are doing for the whole community, and we are honored to be among the other excellent organizations that have been selected. Read a full roundup over at LitHub: https://loom.ly/q4M6ywY

Listen: Nicole Sealey reading "Hysterical Strength" on the new episode of The American Poetry Review Podcast. This is a special episode, and you won't want to miss it. Listen and subscribe wherever you get your podcasts. https://loom.ly/Ye9NGSI

Submissions are open now for our 2021 APR/Honickman First Book Prize, to be judged by Ada Limón. The Honickman has jumpstarted the careers of some our favorite voices in poetry; why not join their ranks? Submit your work here: https://americanpoetryreview.submittable.com/submit

Reading something great, in print, out of doors, lowers blood pressure and induces proper thinking practices. Why not start with our September/October issue? Featuring bold new work from Keith S. Wilson, Cate Peebles, Camille T. Dungy, Pattie McCarthy and many more. Get it here: https://loom.ly/IdsLL10

AVAILABLE NOW: Chessy Normile's Great Exodus, Great Wall, Great Party, the Winner of the 2020 APR/Honickman First Book Prize. Selected and with an Introduction by Li-Young Lee, it's a book crafted to speak to your own, well, governance. Don't delay, order your copy today: https://loom.ly/CcCqotE