Rachel Rothenberg
@RRrothenberg
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Senior Associate Editor, @BarrowStreetInc
Joined February 2023
Thank you @TylerMPoetry and @PhoebeJournal, so very honored.
We are over the moon today to announce our 2023 Spring Contest winners! ✨ A major congratulations to the winners! All of these pieces, along with our several, incredible finalists, will be published in Issue 52.2, due out next month! We cannot wait to share it with you 🥰
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Hello all, Charles Kell here. Just sending out a big big congratulations to Barrow Street Press's senior associate editor, Rachel Rothenberg (@RRrothenberg), for winning Persea Books 2026 Lexi Rudnitsky First Book Prize in Poetry for her collection, Debris Field!
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The 2025 Barrow Street Poetry Contest is now open for submissions, and we are absolutely thrilled to share that this year’s judge is John Murillo! Our winner will receive $1500 and publication with Barrow Street Press.
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Happy to announce that our Spring 2025 Contest is open tomorrow and will run until March 15th! First prize winners in each genre will receive $500, and honorable mentions will receive our standard contributor rate of $30 per accepted piece.
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I'm interested in the relationship between the archive…and the right to be forgotten, and how that balances with the right to be visible and not erased. —Elizabeth Hoover, @BarrowStreetInc
open.spotify.com
New Books in Poetry · Episode
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Big big thanks to Andrew Cox and Raphael Maurice at UCity Review (@UCityReview) for running these new poems! https://t.co/Vc152tPp5y
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Grief has a tendency to migrate from clock to clock, war to war, massacre to massacre, colony to neocolony. I notice grief has a lone wing, an absolute mark, resembling nothing else. What else can grief see? Saturn perhaps. —@DonMeeChoi, @WavePoetry
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"Many of these songs make me want to dance. The selection process was a deeply personal one, with each song chosen for its ability to amplify the emotions and themes of the poems." @RubenQuesada shared a playlist for his poetry collection Brutal Companion https://t.co/pcABIpikbl
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Big big congrats to the Ocean State Review's Pushcart nominees! Shakeema Smalls (@shakeema_small), Alex Tretbar (@alex_tretbar), Sambhavi Dwivedi (@SambhaviDwivedi), Andres Ordorica (@AndresNOrdorica), Cary Stough (@Cary_O_Cary), and Emilio Carrero!
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When a Palestinian poet speaks “On the second November of the Genocide” @LKTuffaha @proteanmag
https://t.co/oAuDb4QV45
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Lena Tuffaha's "What to the Arab American Is Election Day" cuts through the noise of US electoral politics to remind us that, more than anything else, today is "A Tuesday in the second November of...
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Good morning from our @BarrowStreetInc offices at Swan Hall, URI, where GOOD DRESS by @brittanyroger_ is carrying me through the day…
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What type of images are possible when we lean into the expanse of language? What feelings are we able to invoke when we are willing to take the risk to be vulnerable? Sign up: https://t.co/769zMFs4mi
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Our giveaway is officially open! -winner randomly selected -every sub considered for pub & giveaway -20 pages of editorial fdbck (front note + line notes) -anyone can sub, even if already pubbed/recently rejected/we already have a sub in from you Pls retweet ❤️
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I was the sole witness to this specter quiet as the rising sun waking overhead I awakened cold to see an Aegean blue figure hovering bedside —Ruben Quesada https://t.co/iEiQCYIHKa
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One morning the spirit of my lover’s uncle returned
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Only 10 days left! We are open for our winter issue submissions! Have you sent us your work? Send your poems and art via Submittable: https://t.co/L1tsCRTZNR • • #poetrycall #opencall #poetry #poetrycommunity #opencallforpoets #opencallforartists
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Monday, October 21st, in NYC and streaming online: Naomi Klein and Hala Alyan in conversation with Arielle Angel. Get your tickets now at https://t.co/xOyNSV9bQu
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so happy to have had two new poems come out this past summer! deeply grateful to @charles_kell for giving me the opportunity to speak more on “Prayer” and for having me be a part of @OSRJournal
https://t.co/d7nBWGBkK6
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Such a joy to work on these books with these extraordinary poets. New @BarrowStreetInc titles drop in just 8 days!
Just 10 days until our prize winning fall poetry releases drop! Available for preorder in our bookstore and shipping soon, THE MOUTH IS ALSO A COMPASS by Carrie Bennett and BRUTAL COMPANION by @RubenQuesada
https://t.co/yP4Lz9xyac
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