Parlor Press’s annual New Measure Poetry Prize (now open for 2017 submissions until the end of June) awards a poet a cash award of $1,000 and publication of an original manuscript.
The 2015 winner, This History That Just Happened, by Hannah Craig, selected by Yusef Komunyakaa, was published at the beginning of the year. Komunyakaa says of his selection, “This History That Just Happened places the reader at the nexus where rural and city life converge, bridging a world personal and political, natural and artful, in a voice always uniquely hers.”
Craig has also won the 2016 Mississippi Review Prize and her manuscript was a finalist for the Akron Poetry Prize, the Fineline Competition, and the Autumn House Poetry Prize. Stop by the Parlor Press website to learn more about Craig and purchase her debut poetry collection digitally or in print.
Begun in 1989, 
This month’s featured collaboration from 
Each June, Rescue Press accepts submissions for the Black Box Poetry Contest for full-length poetry collections open to poets at any stage in their writing careers. The latest Black Box Poetry winner will be released later this month (March 15): What Was It For by Adrienne Raphel. Judge Cathy Park Hong calls the debut full-length collection “feral and full of feverish delight.” She continues, “Raphel takes Victorian nonsense verse into the twenty-first century and transforms it to her own strange and genius song.”
Diode Editions recently held their very first full-length 
The Fall 2016 issue of 
In February, Black Lawrence Press released Retribution Binary by Ruth Baumann, which advance praise calls “a study in wreckage and palpable absence” that is “Part dreamscape, part gutter-bucket realism” (Marcus Wicker). Retribution Binary is the winner of the 
“Calmly on Fire,” a found photograph and collage on paper by Lorna Simpson, makes it difficult for readers to look away from 
Published in Ireland, this spring 2017 issue of 
Unusual beauty seems to be my theme this week, finishing off with “Red Heart Boat” by Andy Levine on the cover of the online 
The University of Iowa Press brings readers a real treat: the lost novel of Walt Whitman, Life and Adventures of Jack Engle. While we’re familiar with Leaves of Grass, Life and Adventures of Jack Engle was serialized in a newspaper under a pseudonym, read with little fanfare, and then disappeared.
Issue #55 (Spring 2017) of 
Issue 43.2 (Spring/Summer 2017) of 
Editor Wayne Miller has announced several changes to 
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“Stress Test” by Eugenia Loli is the eye-catching cover art on 
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Executive Editor Jim Hicks opens the newest issue of 
I’m pretty sure that’s a cockroach orchestra portrayed on the cover of 
First Place Winner
The 2016 Kenyon Review Short Fiction Contest as selected by final judge Jaimy Gordon are featured in the January/February 2017 issue of 
Aimee Bungard is the featured artist in the Winter 2017 issue of 
The fall 2016 issue of 
In its regular “Rediscoveries” section, the newest issue of Middlebury’s 
BOA Editions has announced spring publications of the winners of the Isabella Gardner Poetry Award, the 
Lynn Easton’s “The Equation,” winner of the 2016 Contance Rooke Creative Nonfiction Prize as selected by final judge Lee Maracle, is featured in the Winter 2016 issue of 
Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun ‘s “Christy Clark and the Kinder Morgan Go-Go Girls” draws readers to the Winter 2016 cover of 
I was mesmerized by Ann Manuel’s “Blur I” on the Winter 2017 cover of 
And just one more splash of color to brighten a winter’s day: “Gouache on Newspaper” by Elizabeth Doran on the cover of Suffolk University’s 