Spring 2025
Volume 64.2 Forthcoming
Poems by Jane Hirshfield, Izzy Maxson, John McCarthy, Stephen Bluestone, Dorianne Laux, Michael Leal García, Gabriel Welsch, Anne Gerard, Donna Prinzmetal, Madina Tuhbatullina, Lane Falcon, Derek Jon Dickinson, Collin Garrity, Benjamin Nash, Mike Bove, Grey Brown, Michael Colonnese, Jan Freeman, Brad Johnson, Matthew Kirby, Christy Prahl, Michael Flatt, Rick Bursky, Harley Tonelli, Forester McClatchey, Michael Gaspeny, Noah Davis, Bill Brymer, Sarah Spaulding, Dion O’Reilly, John Wall Barger, Jaki Shelton Green, Sydney Lea, Tom C. Hunley, Robert Manaster, Steve McOrmond, Joseph Hutchison, and Catherine Abbey Hodges.
Prose by Alice Allan. Cover art by Bussie Parker Kehoe.
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News
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Our spring 2025 issue is getting printed! We're so excited to share it with you soon.
CONTEST ANNOUNCEMENT: We are launching a spring ekphrasis contest with cash prizes for the top three poems. Submission information will be live March 1st!
We have finished reading your submissions for our Fall 2025 issue. Thanks to all of our submitters for sharing your poems with us. Our next reading period for poetry will open in August for our Spring 2026 issue. In the meantime, we are still soliciting essays on poetry. You can find out what we're looking for on our Submittable page.
Tar River Poetry is now a proud member of CLMP.
Spring Poetry and Writing Workshops in North Carolina. Both editors are leading writing workshops through the North Carolina Museum of Art. Helena Feder is hosting writing workshops in Raleigh that you can read about here. Charmaine Cadeau is leading a reading and discussion group about poetry in Winston-Salem this April that you can read about here.
Our interview on Duotrope about TRP (and about submitting) can be found here.Check out a sneak peek of the Spring 2025 issue with Jane Hirshfield’s poem.
