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Spring 2023 Number 50


Cover of BPR 50, a illustration of a white orchid with red interior and gold stamens, with green stems and leaves. There is a circular glass lense at its basse.Cover art by Debora Greger: After Eden Came Furniture, IV, paper hand-sewn to paper with clear nylon thread. This 50th issue is dedicated to the life of David Eye, whose brilliance and brotherhood I will miss dearly. —Adam Vines

Featured Poet

Ricardo Pau-Llosa

pdfAll of Ricardo Pau-Llosa's works featured in Issue 50 can be read/downloaded in PDF format

Winner of the Collins Prize

Mary B. Moore

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Contents

  • Featured Poet

    Ricardo Pau-Llosa

    pdfAll of Ricardo Pau-Llosa's works featured in Issue 50 can be read/downloaded in PDF format

  • Poems
    • Emma Aylor
      • Self Portrait As
    • Michael Bazzett translating Humberto Ak’ab’al
    • Bruce Bond
      • Invention of the Wilderness
    • Paul Bone
      • Biscuits and Gravy
    • Paola Bruni
      • Resurrection
    • Christopher Buckley
      • From Here On Out
    • Chris Buckley translating Ernesto Trejo
      • Crystal Ring
      • I’ll Tell You, Alighieri
      • Everything
    • Roger Carlisle
      • Now More Than Ever Before
    • Michael Chitwood
      • Brightleaf
      • Hammonds
    • Carson Colenbaugh
    • Flower Conroy
      • Zonkey
      • Vulture
      • Venus (in Furs)
      • Sestina
      • Platypus
    • Travis Denton
      • Killing Machine
      • Out of Nothing
    • Maggie Dietz
    • Kendall Dunkelberg
      • Quarantine
      • Partial Eclipse
    • David Eye
    • Raye Hendrix
      • Iron Maiden
    • John Hodgen
      • For the Two Men from St. Bernard Parish in Florissant, Louisiana, Just East of New Orleans After Hurricane Ida Hit, Who Used Chainsaws to Successfully Rescue a Cow from a Tree
    • John Hoppenthaler
      • Bourbon, Cigarettes, Van Morrison
    • Fred Johnston
      • Account
    • Jared Jones
      • River Street
    • Rodney Jones
      • The Peasant Poem
    • John Kinsella
      • Dusk at Midday
      • Ghosting the Fox
    • Kenny Likis
      • Under the Influence
    • Nabila Lovelace
      • why I couldn't tell a pigeon from a dove
      • Hot Goods
    • Josh Luckenbach
      • Tantra
      • An Answer
    • Owen McLeod
    • Mary B. Moore
    • Bonnie Naradzay
      • Paradise in the Day Shelter for the Homeless
    • Salvador Peralta translating Heberto Padilla
      • In Troubled Times
      • Landmarks
      • Out of Bounds
    • Chelsea Rathburn
    • Mark Rubin
      • Count Your Blessings
    • Jane Satterfield
      • Kiss Your Ash Goodbye
    • Megan Sexton
      • Centro for the Resurrection
    • Annette Sisson
      • Marriage at Ten Years, 1964
    • Catherine Staples
      • Triassic
    • Natalie Staples
    • Richard Tillinghast
      • Night Train to Memphis
      • The Self
    • Kara van de Graaf
    • Lauren K. Watel
      • On the Brink of This
      • In the Portrait Gallery
    • Patricia Waters
      • Seahorse Sex Upsets the Mothers of Williamson County, Tennessee
    • Pell Williams
      • Hang Ups
    • Emily Williamson
      • Burrowing Owl
      • Twitter
      • Delaware
      • Ardipithecus Ramidus
    • Ryan Wilson
      • Next Up
    • Ryan Wilson translating Charles Baudelaire
      • One O'Clock in the Morning
      • Anywhere Outside the World
    • Robert Wrigley