About the Journal
Boxcar Poetry Review is an online poetry journal showcasing the work of new and established poets with new
issues appearing quarterly. 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.
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Every couple of years we assemble a print anthology of the best work that has appeared in Boxcar Poetry Review.
Our second anthology features 63 outstanding poets and can be purchased here.
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 regularly appear in the Best of the Net Anthology (Sundress Press). We 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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EDITOR: Neil Aitken's first book, The Lost Country of Sight, won the 2007 Philip Levine Prize and was published by Anhinga Press in late 2008.
His work has appeared in diode, Crab Orchard Review, The Drunken Boat, Ninth Letter, Poetry Southeast, Sou'wester, and Washington Square. He is currently
at work on a second manuscript entitled Babbage's Dream. Working with Chinese poet Ming Di, he is also the co-translator of The Book of Cranes: Selected Poems of Zang Di which was recently accepted for publication.
Visit www.neil-aitken.com for more information.
INTERVIEWS: Eduardo C. Corral is a CantoMundo fellow. His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Beloit Poetry Journal, Jubilat, New England Review, Ploughshares, and Poetry. His work has been honored with a "Discovery"/The Nation award and residencies from the MacDowell Colony and Yaddo. Slow Lightning, his first book of poems, was selected by Carl Phillips as the 2011 winner of the Yale Series of Younger Poets competition.
REVIEWS: Sara Toruno-Conley is an English Assistant Professor at Los Medanos College in the Bay Area. She received her MFA in Creative Writing from the University of California, Riverside, and her BA in Literature and Writing from Cal State San Marcos. Her poetry has appeared in Modoc Independent News as April 2009's Surprise Valley Poetry winner, The Common Line Project as an honorable mention, and also in Eclectica, Ginosko, Temenos, Monday Night Magazine, Artistic Rights, and Perigee.
ART: Elaine Wang is a photographer and an abstract artist who has experimented with a variety of mediums over the years (including Chinese painting and calligraphy). Also a poet, fiction writer, and memoirist, she holds a BA in English with a Creative Writing emphasis from the University of Texas, Austin, and now lives in Los Angeles where she works mainly with acryllic and mixed media. In her spare moments, she shoots with a Nikon D5000.
INTERVIEWS: Eduardo C. Corral is a CantoMundo fellow. His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Beloit Poetry Journal, Jubilat, New England Review, Ploughshares, and Poetry. His work has been honored with a "Discovery"/The Nation award and residencies from the MacDowell Colony and Yaddo. Slow Lightning, his first book of poems, was selected by Carl Phillips as the 2011 winner of the Yale Series of Younger Poets competition.
REVIEWS: Sara Toruno-Conley is an English Assistant Professor at Los Medanos College in the Bay Area. She received her MFA in Creative Writing from the University of California, Riverside, and her BA in Literature and Writing from Cal State San Marcos. Her poetry has appeared in Modoc Independent News as April 2009's Surprise Valley Poetry winner, The Common Line Project as an honorable mention, and also in Eclectica, Ginosko, Temenos, Monday Night Magazine, Artistic Rights, and Perigee.
ART: Elaine Wang is a photographer and an abstract artist who has experimented with a variety of mediums over the years (including Chinese painting and calligraphy). Also a poet, fiction writer, and memoirist, she holds a BA in English with a Creative Writing emphasis from the University of Texas, Austin, and now lives in Los Angeles where she works mainly with acryllic and mixed media. In her spare moments, she shoots with a Nikon D5000.