World Poetry Day!!

Here at Indiana Review, we are all wearing party hats, neon pants, and flashy gold earrings to celebrate World Poetry Day.

We also are handing out and hanging up our posters for our upcoming poetry reading! Yay! We are so excited. If you haven't heard about it yet, check it out: The details are on our website and on facebook. Yup! Erika Meitner, Steve Scafidi, and Curtis Bauer are coming here to read & to celebrate on Friday March 25.

Coincidentally, March 25 also ends our Poetry Contest -- so as fun as dancing in neon pants is in celebration of World Poetry day, sit down an minute and submit online or via the snail mail to our prize. Give us a chance to read your work, give yourself a chance to win $1000 and publication. Details Here.

Then dance some more.

Mid-November Shout-Outs

The University of Virginia Press has released their annual Best New Poets 2009, showcasing 50 of the best poems from the new heavies of the year past. Check it out. You’ll find contributor Pilar Gomez-Ibanez and her IR 2008 Poetry Contest Winning Piece “Losing Bedrock Farm," as well as a poem by Indiana MFA’s very own Keith Leonard.

In other shout out news, IR would like to congratulate Jericho Brown on snagging a 2009 Whiting Writers' Award, which honors talented writers with $50,000 (Ballin’!). Jericho’s “All that Crawls Beneath Me” appears in IR’s special Funk Feature and a review of his debut collection “Please” will appear in our forthcoming issue.