Poetry

Katherine Gaffney Wins 2022 Tampa Review Prize

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…]

A Poem by Jai Hamid Bashir

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…]

A Poem by Mary-Alice Daniel

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…]

Two Poems by Benjamin S. Grossberg

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…]

Two Poems by Keith Kopka

Born and raised in Providence, Rhode Island, Keith Kopka spent many years playing in and touring with punk and hardcore bands all over the country. His poetry and criticism have recently appeared in Best New Poets, Mid-American Review, New Ohio Review, Berfrois, Ninth Letter, The International Journal of The Book, and many others. Formerly the … [Read more…]