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About the Journal

Boxcar Poetry Review is an online poetry journal showcasing the work of new and established poets with new issues appearing every other month. What are we looking for? Simply the best poetry out there, be it lyric or narrative, or somewhere in between. Take us someplace new. Move us. Transport us. Run us over with a locomotive of brilliant imagery and voice.

  The best poems of the year will be collected together in a print anthology which is scheduled for spring 2007.

In addition to publishing outstanding poetry, we seek to raise the profile of the next generation of poets by featuring reviews of first books and interviews with first book poets.

Poems from Boxcar Poetry Review appear in the 2006 Best of the Net Anthology (Sundress Press). Beginning in 2007 we will also nominate poems for the Pushcart Prize in Poetry.

If you're on Facebook, you can join our group here. We are also on GoodReads and can be found by searching for our email address (boxcarpoetry@gmail.com) there.

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Neil Aitken (Editor) served as the coeditor of CRATE, the graduate literary journal at the University of California, Riverside. An award-winning poet, his work has appeared or is forthcoming in Crab Orchard Review, The Drunken Boat, Poetry Southeast, Sou'wester, and Washington Square. His poem "Adrift" won the 2004 Prairie Poetry Friends' Award, and his manuscript, The Lost Country of Sight, placed as a semi-finalist for both the 2005 Brittingham-Pollak Prize Poetry Series (University of Wisconsin Press) and the 2006 Elixir Press Poetry Awards. (website)

Eduardo C. Corral (Interviews)'s work has recently been honored with a "Discovery"/ The Nation award and residencies from Yaddo and The MacDowell Colony. He will be the Olive B. O'Connor Fellow in Creative Writing at Colgate University during the 2007/08 academic year.

Sara Toruno (Reviews) received her MFA in Creative Writing at the University of California, Riverside where she was the Associate Fiction Editor of CRATE. She now teaches English at San Jose City College and lives in San Francisco. Her poetry has appeared in Monday Night, Artistic Rights, Perigee, Tenemos, and Ginosko.



Boxcar Poetry Review - ISSN 1931-1761