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McWhirter Wins the 2024 Griffin Poetry Prize
In the wake of my earlier post regarding my mentor George McWhirter’s arrival on the 2024 Griffin Poetry Prize short list, there is this extraordinarily wonderful news from last night’s event in Toronto: George McWhirter wins $78,000 for the international prize for his translation of Self-Portrait in the Zone of Silence, written in Spanish by Mexican poet Homero Aridjis (New Directions Publishing).Read More
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Bristlecone Magazine Returns!
After a hiatus in which the editors of Bristlecone worked to re-imagine the magazine’s PDF/blog format, the new web-based May 2024 issue is available at https://www.bristleconemag.com. In this issue you’ll find new work by Lila Bear, Kathleen Cain, Robert Cooperman, Megan de Guzman, David Anthony Martin, George McWhirter, Thomas Reeve, Linda Whittenberg, and Jon Kelly Yenser. We’re excited not only because of the issue’s powerful poetry but because the new format allows readers to comment on the poems. Comments will be curated so that published observations serve both the poets and other readers.Read More
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BRISTLECONE July 2022 is Live!
Here’s the link to the July 2022 issue of Bristlecone.Read More
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The May Edition of Bristlecone Is Available Now
Read online and/or download the free PDFRead More
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The April Edition of Bristlecone Is Available Now
Read the April Bristlecone online or download it as a PDF here.Read More
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The March 2022 Issue of BRISTLECONE is here!
Click here to read online and/or download the free PDF of our third issue.Read More