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Carrie Fountain
“The Jungle”
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Alex Dimitrov
“Love”
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Sharon Mesmer
“Flood the World with Beauty”
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Jericho Brown
“Duplex (I begin with love)”
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Featured Work in Volume 49, No. 02
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Carrie Fountain
“The Jungle”
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Kamilah Aisha Moon
“Irony”
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Natalie Shapero
“Flowers Would Have Killed You”
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Diane Mehta
“Of Unbecoming (The Future of AI)”
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Craig Morgan Teicher
“Death”
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Kaveh Akbar/Jane Hirshfield
“On Writing Poems Facing Into the Broken World”
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March 13, 2020
Kunitz Prize for Younger Poets, Deadline May 15
The Stanley Kunitz Memorial Prize honors the late Stanley Kunitz’s dedication to mentoring poets. The winning poem will appear on the...
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Ada Limón to Judge 2021 APR/Honickman First Book Prize
The prize of $3,000, with an introduction by the judge and distribution of the winning book by Copper Canyon Press through...
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The American Poetry Review Podcast Ep. 4: Alex Dimitrov's "Love" & Our Mixtapes For Our 20s
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The American Poetry Review Podcast Ep. 3: Mentorship, David Baker, Stanley Plumly & Maggie Queeney
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January 08, 2020
Chessy Normile Awarded the 2020 APR/Honickman First Book Prize
This year’s APR/Honickman First Book Prize has been awarded to Chessy Normile for her manuscript Great Exodus, Great Wall, Great...
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The American Poetry Review Podcast: Episode 2, with Dorothea Lasky
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The American Poetry Review Podcast: Episode 1, with Devon Walker-Figueroa
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July 01, 2019
Maggie Queeney Awarded 2019 Kunitz Prize
The American Poetry Review is happy to announce that Maggie Queeney has been awarded the 2019 Stanley Kunitz Memorial Prize for...
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Tyree Daye Wins Whiting Award
Our heartfelt congratulations to Tyree Daye, winner of the 2017 APR/Honickman First Book Prize, on also winning the 2019 Whiting Award!
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