The Evansville Review

The Evansville Review is an award-winning literary journal published by our students. It includes poetry, fiction, essays, and interviews by a wide range of authors, from students to Nobel recipients. Past issues have included work by Arthur Miller, John Updike, Joseph Brodsky, Elia Kazan, Edward Albee, Willis Barnstone, Shirley Ann Grau, and X. J. Kennedy. Poems which first appeared in The Evansville Review were selected to be included in The Best American Poetry of 2001 and in The Pushcart Prize XXVI of 2002.

Measure

Measure: An Annual Review of Formal Poetry is a journal dedicated to publishing the best metrical, English-language verse from both the United States and abroad. Measure was begun in spring 2005 by Professors Paul Bone and Rob Griffith in response to the demise of The Formalist, a journal which helped renew and sustain interest in formal poetry.

The Richard Wilbur Book Award

The Richard Wilbur Poetry Award is a prestigious national competition for book-length poetry collections. The author of the winning manuscript receives $1000, and the winning manuscript is published by the University of Evansville Press. In recent years, such distinguished American poets as Dana Goia, Rachel Hadas, and Wyatt Prunty have served as the competition's final judge.

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The Willis Barnstone Prize in Translation

The Willis Barnstone Prize in Translation is a department sponsored, international competition of unpublished poetry translations from any language and time period. The contest is named in honor of the renowned poet and translator Willis Barnstone, who has served as the final judge for our first two competitions. The award-winning poems are published in The Evansville Review.

University of Evansville Literary Journal

This publication draws on the All-University Writing Contest for its content. Student editors pick what they deem the best of the contest entries for inclusion. The journal is published each spring in time for distribution at the English Coffee Hour at which contest entries are read.