Out latest 32 is hot off the presses and this one too is full of great work. You’ll find some of our favorite poets in #45 (among them Amit Majmudar, Hailey Leithauser, and Claire Wahmanholm) as well as quite a few names that are new to our pages (Jasmine Khaliq, Jason Whitmarsh, Arah Ko, and Seth Peterson, just to cite a few). We hope you’ll enjoy the introduction to their work as much as we have. Also, for a special treat, this issue includes a pair of previously unpublished poems by John Berryman, part of an uncollected volume that FSG will publish later this year. I’m telling you, this issue is a stunner.
Start your AWP right with 32 Poems, Poetry Northwest, and Smartish Pace. We’ll have good food, good drinks, good fellowship, and, most importantly, an incredible lineup of poets: William Archila, Rob Arnold, Gabrielle Bates, Christopher Childers, Stephanie Choi, Mary Leauna Christensen, Meg Day, Beth Ann Fennelly, Brenda Hillman, Gary Jackson, Peter Kline, Keetje Kuipers, Edgar Kunz, Dorianne Laux, Timothy Liu, Casandra Lopez, Elizabeth Metzger, Wayne Miller, Natalie Shapero, Jess Smith, Matthew Buckley Smith, and Nida Sophasarun.
It’s Best New Poets season and this year 32 Poems is proud to nominate a pair of excellent poems from Issue #43: Jacob Boyd’s “Strophic Cascade [The woods you know.]” and Christopher Childer’s “There.”
We hope you’ll join us in celebrating these poet’s work.
This year, 32 Poems has nominated V. Penelope Pelizzon’s “Cliche,” Brandel France de Bravo’s “After the Ecstasy, the Laundry,” Jared Harél’s “Ode to Barbed Wire,” and Craig van Rooyen’s “Tenderness in Men” from 32 Poems #40 for the next Pushcart Prize Anthology. From 32 Poems #41, we have chose Keetje Kuipers’s “Cremello Horse” and Melissa Crowe’s “Always I’ve been trying to show you” to represent us.
We couldn’t be more proud of these poems and we hope you’ll join us in celebrating their nomination.
It’s always a challenge to narrow our favorite contributions from emerging poets to a pair of nominations, but it’s also a great pleasure to reread the poems.
This year, we’ve selected Diana Cao’s “Love Poem for Brood X” and Forester McClatchey’s “Alpine Meadow” to represent us in Best New Poets‘ competition. Please join us in congratulating these poets and take the opportunity to spend a little more time with their words. We think you’ll be glad you did.
