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Spring 2026 Number 53

 

BPR 53 cover: Black cover with gold lettering, the tale of a whale, and pink and gold sea plants.Cover art by Debora Greger

Featured Poet

Victoria Chang

Lauren K. Watel

Dear V: Epistolary Responses to the Work of Victoria Chang

L. A. Johnson

Accepting the Poems for What They Are: An Interview with Victoria Chang

Featured Essay

Henry Hart, Seamus Heaney: From Belfast to Berkeley and Back

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Contents

  • Featured Poet
  • Featured Essay
  • Poems
    • Amy Arthur
      • Claret Ash
      • Himalayan Blackberry
      • Breathless
    • Ned Balbo
      • Wildfire Moon
      • Octopus Dreams
    • Gabrielle Bates
      • Working Theory
    • Bruce Bond
      • Voicemail from a Passage in The Sun Also Rises
    • Paul Bone
      • On the Resemblance of the Horizon to a Bow
    • Lucas Cardona
      • The Romans
      • The Only Surrealist in County
    • Katie Chaple
    • Constantine Contogenis
      • Drachmas for My Father
    • Lisa Fay Coutley
      • When My Adaptive Adolescent Refuses to Cry About a Goose, I Braid Pain's Many Threads
      • In Omaha, New Year's is July 4th
      • The Morning After C. Dale Young Reads a Poem
      • Letter to Future Me with New Enemies
      • How We Got Here
    • Brian Czyzyk
      • My Father Spots Snowy Owls
    • Sean Thomas Dougherty
      • Recipes for Things Not Food
    • John Philip Drury
      • Sestina on Six Words by Arnaut Daniel
      • The Weightlessness of Numbers
      • Midway on Our Life's Journey
      • Ghazal for Bartleby the Scrivener
      • Ghazal for a Pianist
    • Anna Evas
      • Snapping Turtle
    • Amy Fleury
      • What to Expect
    • Joshua Gottlieb-Miller
      • Studio Time
    • Paulette Guerin
      • At the Math Bee for Kindergarteners
      • Family Trip
    • Rachel Hadas
    • Catherine Abbey Hodges
      • Warm Rain
      • Another Fire Poem
    • E. Hughes
      • To Let This Woman Love Me
      • Deadheading Petunias
    • Olivia Ivings
      • A Silk Purse, a Sow's Ear
    • L. A. Johnson
    • Melanie Jordan
      • It's Like That Famous Photo of Yoko and John
      • Twenties
    • Cate Lycurgus
      • Disbelief
    • Matt W. Miller
      • No Tattoos
    • Adam Moore
      • Meditation on Gardeners' World
    • Mary B. Moore
      • Triangles
      • Paper Birds
    • Peter Munro
      • Tidepool Sculpin (Oligocottus maculosus)
    • Dan O'Brien
      • Your Rescue
      • Ekphrasis of the Beach
      • Your Answer
      • Ars Poetica
      • Your Autopsy
    • Emilia Phillips
      • The Cellist and the Nightingale
      • Disambiguation
      • Supermarket in Rural Iceland
      • Slant Rhyme
      • Natura Morta
    • John Poch
      • My Favorite Church in Rome
      • The Nose
    • Chelsea Rathburn
      • Broken Houses
      • Tear-Down
    • Kathryn Pratt Russell
      • Two-Faced Saint at the High Museum
      • Love Poem for Barn Owl
    • Jane Satterfield
      • Doomsday Fish
      • Moon Child, or Divination with Two Decks
      • What We Didn't See Coming
    • Shane Seely
    • Ralph Sneeden
      • See You in September
      • Contrapunctus
      • Three Pigs
    • Diane Thiel
      • The Blind Spot
    • Matthew Thorburn
      • Wanting to Say
    • William Trowbridge
      • Lucky Them
    • Seth Brady Tucker
      • Disbelief in the Age of These Golden Towers
    • Ryan Vine
      • United Martial Arts
      • The Cave
    • Jason Gordy Walker translating Rune Christiansen
    • Will Wellman
      • Starlings
    • C. Dale Young

    FEATURED TRANSLATION

    • Alexis Levitin translating Sonia Manzano
      • Time, You Have Conquered Me