More than objects made

Issue Six Poetry Contributors
C.J. Sage, If Grass Only Grew in Crew Cuts
Mary Grimm, On the Patio and What I Learned in Catholic School [link]
Susan H. Case, A Few Notes on Distortion
Charlie Clark, Thinking of Extinction [link]
Andrew Kozma, Of Ecclesiastical Principalities
Jocelyn Casey-Whiteman (Winner, Poetry Award), Kimberly Cutout
dawn lonsinger, Stitching Became a System
Kenton Wing Robinson, Rhymes With
Woody Loverude (Finalist, Poetry Award), Covenant
Ashley Davidson, Dear Chairman Mao and Dear Comrade Lenin
J.W. Wang, On the Occasion of Our Chance Meeting
Renee Wells, Being Barbie
Eric Greinke, Paul Bunyan
Rebecca Porte, Ohm’s Law
Nita Karpf, Rubato, Defined
Chip Livingston, Pica Pica and Creation Myth
Jennie Thompson, Lot’s Wife and Delicacy
Duane Locke, Email to Damniso Lopez (Unsayable)
Lynne Potts (Finalist, Poetry Award), Whole Worlds Had Already Happened
Emily Wharton, Read These Poems and Become a Winged Creature
Juliana Gray, Portrait of My Mother as the Rush Hour Traffic Report and Portrait of My Sister as a Marble Ashtray
David Shumate, Wisdom and Don Quixote [link]
Jill Beauchesne (Finalist, Poetry Award), Armistice Day
Tim Lockridge, On Realizing That I Tend to End with Nature Imagery [link]

Issue Five Poetry Contributors
Sara Burge, The Failure of Smell-O-Vision [link]
Chad Sweeney, from An Architecture
George Gott, Kyoku #0455 [link]
Kristin Abraham, Self-Portrait as Suffering Succotash
Aaron Anstett, Tabernacle
Jennifer Brown, from The Fresno Series
Carrie Olivia Adams, from Retroflex
Brent Fisk, History Has the Voice of a Bird-Filled Tree
Kathleen Rooney, X-Country Rondelet
Nicholas Strickland, Vena Cavae
Patrick Culliton, My Children's Book Won't Start
James Capozzi, Country Album
Amisha Patel, Yet [link]
Erin Sweeten, Parasitic Wasp and I'm Always Thinking of Parasites
Danielle Sellers, Personal Representative [link]
Robert Krut, 39 Poems Left in the House When Henry Walked Out
and Disappeared [link]
Daniel Groves, Crier
George Murray, Exit Strategy [link]

Issue Four Poetry Contributors
Jennifer Chapis, from The Beekeeper’s Departure (Winner, Chapbook Award) [chapbook preview]
Kristy Bowen, Invocation [link]
Jocelyn Casey-Whiteman, Escaped Bull (Finalist, Poetry Award)
Chet Corey, Advice to Lovelorn [link]
Jeremy Aufrance, Charlie Tells Me Things [link] and Cue
Justin Lacour, Caligulations
Devon Wootten, Vesicle (Finalist, Poetry Award)
Lisa Russ Spaar, Grove and Palimpsest
Stephen Cushman,Taste the Fresh Juice of the Pomegranates
Abigail Cloud, The Birth of the Everyday Demon and Blue Birth Demon
Marc McKee, Plenisphere (Finalist, Poetry Award)
Vanessa Mancinelli, Perfect Pitch [link]
F. Daniel Rzicznek, Bait
Jessica Fjeld, Mesopotamia Suns Itself on the Upper Deck and Poem Beginning with a Line from Anne Carson (Winner, Poetry Award)
Larissa Szporluk, Mortar and Windmill [Verse Daily]
Kristi Maxwell, from Hush Sessions [Verse Daily]
Renee Wells, The Secret [link]

Issue Three Poetry Contributors
Martin Arnold, Unhappy Is the Land That Needs Heroes [link] and Insult
Julia Johnson, If Down the Road and How Is It
John Pursley III, The Gourds We Picked Upon
Beth Anne Royer, Amish Rebellion [link] and When Majordomo Dies
Joshua Marie Wilkinson, Still Life with Marsh, Hero, Lions, & a Lookout
Debbie Urbanski, The Circus Woman Who Is Discussing Someone Else’s Idea of Temptation [Verse Daily] and The Circus Press Agent Tells the Woman Who Hated Sex That He Would Like to ‘Stir Up’ Some Publicity [link]
Mark Wallace, from Party in My Body
Gibson Fay-LeBlanc, from The History of the Eyes’ Decline and Rider Unhorsed [Verse Daily]
Andrew Kozma, Of the Civil Principality and Of Cruelty and Mercy, and Whether It Is Better to Be Loved Than Feared, or the Contrary
David Harrison Horton, from Necessary
C.L. Bledsoe, Types of Fish I Don’t Like [link]
Amish Trivedi, At Last, India and Jamboree
Clay Matthews, Poem for the Twenty-First-Century Gatekeeper
Melissa Jones Fiori, Translation [link]
Noah Falck, from Life as a Crossword Puzzle
David Shumate, Making a Forest and Om [link]

Issue Two Poetry Contributors
Dan Albergotti, Book of the Father [poem]
Linh Dinh, Eating and Feeding and Heart's Progresss
C. Derick Varn, Constructive Criticism of Bathroom Wall Scribbling
Joanne Lowery, Worry, the Giraffe (3rd Place, BCR Poetry Award)
Michael Constantine McConnell, Palindrome for Ethan Bell
Lisa Jarnot, Renegade Salmon [Verse Daily]
Adam Clay, [As Is the Custom, Prayer Dwells in Dust]
Eric Amling, Madam, I'm Atom
Naomi Ruth Lowinsky, goat song (2nd Place, BCR Poetry Award)
Anna Fulford, A Bird in the Hand Is Worth $1.50/Hour [Verse Daily]
Denise Duhamel & Maureen Seaton, An Antilogy of Antilogic
Chad Davidson & John Poch, Hockey Haiku [haiku]
Nick Carbo, Italian Postcard 4
Michael Robins, Exists,
Marc McKee, Funereal Jaunt and If I'd Known It Was Going to Be That Kind of Party [Verse Daily]
Jon Leon, Diphasic Rumors 17 & 21
Becky Cooper, This Is What I Know (1st Place, BCR Poetry Award)
Matthew Rohrer, from A Plate of Chicken
Chris Vitiello, 5
James Grinwis, Scabland [Verse Daily]

Online Exclusive Contributers
Jill Beauchesne, Almanac [poem]
Rupert Fike,At the Art Brut Show [poem]
Armine Iknadossian,The Return [poem]
Chad Parenteau,The Dead Won't Stop Moving [poem]

Issue One Poetry Contributors
Erica Bernheim, Summer Crookneck [Verse Daily] and How to Create Your Own Amnesia
Johannes Goransson, from Secured Against Hares (#'s 17, 19, 21 and 22)
Arielle Greenberg, On a Return to Being a Polemic against Light Verse [Verse Daily] and Membrane
Gabriel Gudding, Policy and Religion
Paul Guest, Poem in Which I Seek Consolation in the Etymology of a Word and Victoria's Secret
Kristin Hall, DIY Foot Washing and The Flight Area
Kent Johnson, Poetry Blogs in Zurich
John Latta, Umbrage [Poetry Daily] and Gadabout
Sarah Manguso, What Prayer Is
Joyelle McSweeney, Architectural Digest and The Great White Fleet
K. Silem Mohammed, They Call My Car Illegal and Demerol Chillout
Ander Monson, Me v. January and Circumstantial
Karri Harrison Paul, Eviction
Marcus Slease, If You've Got Something to Say, Then Say It
Tony Tost, from Complex Sleep
Greg Williamson, Sex and Sex

Poetry Submission Guidelines

Poems are hard to nail down these days. Our philosophy is that if you consider your piece to be a poem, you can trust that we'll treat it like one. So send us your sonnets, sestinas, short-shorts, prose poems, avant garde experiments, etc etc. What we pay attention to mainly are craft and quality in relation to purpose; what does the poem want to do, and how well does it do it?

For every issue of the BCR, we reserve about 40% of the pages for poetry. We like to have a mix of established writers and new, emerging voices. We prefer to publish more than one poem by each author, but due to any number of variables, this is not always possible.

If you are thinking of submitting, it's always a good idea to take a look around our site, read the blog or a sample issue, and get a feel for work that would be appropriate to our journal. While you're at it, consider entering our first contest. For a small fee of $10 you get a free one-year subscription(regular price? $10!) and a chance at the $250 top prize.

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Backwards City Review
PO Box 41317
Greensboro, NC 27404

Cover Letter: All submissions should be accompanied by a cover letter that somehow includes the author's name, titles of all pieces submitted, and a brief biographical statement.

Poems: 3 - 10 pages. Poems should be individually typed and single-spaced on the page. Titles should appear on each page of the poems, the name of the author should not.

Full submission guidelines, all genres.