Issue 65 of Tampa Review is off to the printer! To celebrate, we are sharing one of its featured poems, apropos of recent discussions on the death of poetry. Jon Davis is the author of six chapbooks and seven full-length poetry collections, including Above the Bejeweled City (Grid Books, 2021) and Choose Your Own America … [Read more…]
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…]