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Spring 2020 Number 47


Cover of BPR 47, a painting of dandelions. Featured Poet

Betty Adcock

Winner of the Collins Prize

Christopher Bakken

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Contents

  • Featured Poet

    Betty Adcock

    Susannah B. Mintz

    • On Being Odd and Contrary: The Poetry of Betty Adcock

    Lana K.W. Austin

    • To Tell the Truth and Find That It Is Music: An Interview with Betty Adcock
  • Featured Essay
  • Poems
    • Amber Adams
      • Fragmentation
      • Before Leaving
      • Enduring Freedom
      • Deployment
    • Hannah Aizenman
      • Alabama
    • Ahmad Almallah
    • L. S. Asekoff
      • Now & Then
      • Wherever You Go, There You Are
    • Christopher Bakken
      • Theology at Black Earth Creek
    • Sandra Beasley
      • Einstein, Midnight
      • Topsy Turvy
    • Bruce Bond
    • Paul Bone
      • Asphalt
    • David Bottoms
      • Backing Up the Gospel Singers
      • A Scrap in the Blessing Jar
      • The Dispatcher
      • Leaf-Scum
    • Brian Clifton
    • Leigh Anne Couch
      • Pry
      • What We Might Think About
      • When We Think About Blow Jobs
      • Promise Never
    • Lisa Fay Coutley
      • Crown
      • A Son Might Say
    • Chad Davidson
      • The Bronze Disc
      • Unearth
    • Cydnee Devereaux
    • Sean Thomas Dougherty
      • Dear Editor Who Sent Me a Tiered Rejection
      • Dear Editor Who Apologized for Taking Six Months to Reject My Poems and Said They Came Close
      • Dear Piles of No from All the Usual Suspects
    • Katie Farris
      • Waves
    • Kate Hanson Foster
      • A Proposal
      • Depression Cento
    • Ru Freeman
      • Hunger
    • J. Bruce Fuller
      • All the Men in My Family Die First
    • Eamon Grennan
      • Steve
    • Jennifer Grotz
      • January
      • March
      • May
    • Barbara Hamby
      • Ode to San Giorgio of the Gorgeous Brassieres
    • Lisa Hammond
      • Excavations
    • Todd Hearon
      • Passed Out Drunk Reading Robert Penn Warren
    • John Hodgen
      • No Angel Herd on High, No Cow Jumping Over the Moon
      • American Airlines
    • Gary Jackson
      • Arlington
    • Andrea Jurjević
      • About the Weather
    • Andrea Jurjević translating Marko Pogačar
      • Library Fire
    • Stephen Kampa
      • Toxin
      • Make Jesus Great Again
      • Why We Remember the Martyrs
      • The Orrery
      • The Diarist
    • Quinn Lewis
      • Sight Lines
      • Sunlight, Come to Them
      • The Carnival Queen’s First Understudy
    • C. I. Marshall
      • John Prine’s Face on a Bamboo Blind
    • Ray McManus
      • Dick Hole
    • Matt W. Miller
      • A Crack of Light
    • Homer Mitchell
      • Dispositions
      • Oxygen
    • Joan Murray
      • Two Dares
    • Maria Nazos
    • Chad Parmenter
      • Echosystem
    • Amy Pence
      • The Ledgers
    • Ross Peters
      • Beneath the Surface
    • Matthew Porto
      • Venice Nocturne
    • Matthew Roth
      • The Peace of Wild Things
    • F. Daniel Rzicznek
      • A Mallard
    • Hannah Baker Saltmarsh
      • Virginia Woolf in the Air
    • Leona Sevick
      • The Shopping
      • Menagerie of Broken Things
      • Ride Along
    • Sean Singer
      • Ambulance
      • E Minor Sonata
      • Brandy Mixed with Camphor
    • Phillip Sterling
      • Nature vs. Nurture
    • K. B. Thors translating Soledad Marambio
    • Soledad Marambio
      • La pediatra nos cuenta un cuento
    • K. B. Thors translating Soledad Marambio
      • 1 of November
    • Soledad Marambio
      • 1 de noviembre
    • Richard Tillinghast
      • What I Learned, and Who I Learned It From
    • Artress Bethany White
      • Hemings Family Tour