Smuggling Elephants Through Airport Security Released from MSU Press

The fifth title from Wheelbarrow Books, Smuggling Elephants Through Airport Security by Brad Johnson, was released by the MSU Press on the first of January. “Smuggling Elephants Through Airport Security is a kaleidoscopic tour of the American moment,” writes judge Carolyn Forché, “as conducted by a poet unafraid of the vertiginous highs and lows of a

Noah Davis wins the 2019 (Emerging) Wheelbarrow Books Poetry Prize

Noah Davis, an MFA candidate in poetry at Indiana University, has been selected by George Ella Lyon as the winner of the 2019 (Emerging) Wheelbarrow Books Poetry Prize for his collection Of This River. About Of This River, Lyon said, “Both mythic and rooted, the poems in Of This River  arrive full of bear and deer,

2018 Wheelbarrow Books Poetry Prize (Emerging) Winner Selected

Kristin Brace, winner of the 2018 Wheelbarrow Books Poetry Prize (Emerging). Congratulations are in order for Kristin Brace, the latest winner of the Wheelbarrow Books Poetry Prize. Brace’s collection, Toward the Wild Abundance, was selected by judge Sarah Bagby. “Toward the Wild Abundance conjures emotions initiated by the frailty and wonder of our lives,” Bagby writes. “The multifaceted