by Paul T. CorriganTampa Review Poetry Editor What is it like to be a young brown girl, especially a Filipina immigrant, in the United States? Well, there are pitfalls, attests Barbara Jane Reyes in her latest book of poems, Letters to a Young Brown Girl (BOA 2020), which begins, “If you want to know what we are … [Read more…]
Katherine Gaffney has won the 2022 Tampa Review Prize for Poetry for her collection, Fool in a Blue House. In addition to a $2,000 check, the award includes hardback and paperback book publication in 2023 by the University of Tampa Press. Katherine Gaffney holds an MFA from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and is currently working on her PhD at the University of Southern Mississippi. Her work has previously appeared in jubilat, Harpur Palate, Mississippi Review, Meridian, and elsewhere. … [Read more…]
Congratulations to Jai Hamid Bashir, whose poem “The Apiarists,” which appears in Tampa Review 61/62, has been selected in the 2022 Orison Anthology, which focuses on spiritual writing. Bashir is an autistic poet and creative from the American West. Born to Pakistani-American artists, she is a recent graduate of Columbia University. Her work has appeared … [Read more…]
Tampa Review wishes to congratulate Mary-Alice Daniel, who has just won the 2022 Yale Series of Younger Poets competition, and whose poem “Active but Odd” appears in Tampa Review 61-62. Daniel was born in Northern Nigeria and raised in England and Nashville. Her poems have appeared in The American Poetry Review, Prairie Schooner, The Iowa … [Read more…]
Benjamin S. Grossberg is Director of Creative Writing at the University of Hartford. He has published four books of poems including My Husband Would (University of Tampa, 2020), a Foreword Indies Book of the Year and winner of the 2021 Connecticut Book Award; and Sweet Core Orchard (University of Tampa, 2009), winner of the 2008 … [Read more…]