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Tar River Poetry Tar River Poetry is a nationally ranked magazine of verse, edited by Helena Feder. Header image by Susan Luddeke.

Fall 2025 is available online tomorrow, 10/16! While you're waiting, check out this sneak peek from the issue.
15/10/2025

Fall 2025 is available online tomorrow, 10/16! While you're waiting, check out this sneak peek from the issue.

Mark your calendars! The Fall 2025 issue will be available to read online on October 16, 2025.
10/10/2025

Mark your calendars! The Fall 2025 issue will be available to read online on October 16, 2025.

Meet our Prose Editor!Matthew Buckley Smith is the author of Midlife (Measure, 2024), winner of the Richard Wilbur Award...
06/10/2025

Meet our Prose Editor!

Matthew Buckley Smith is the author of Midlife (Measure, 2024), winner of the Richard Wilbur Award, Dirge for an Imaginary World (Able Muse, 2012), Winner of the Able Muse Book Award, and the forthcoming chapbook The Soft Black Stars (Rattle Foundation, 2026), winner of the Rattle Chapbook Prize. He hosts the poetry podcast SLEERICKETS.

This event at the North Carolina Museum of Art to celebrate Tar River Poetry and the winners of our ekphrasis competitio...
26/09/2025

This event at the North Carolina Museum of Art to celebrate Tar River Poetry and the winners of our ekphrasis competition was well attended and a lot of fun. TRP thanks the NCMA director, Valerie Hillings, the deputy director, Katherine White, and the head librarian Andrew Wang, for their ongoing commitment to the interarts. These are, as we know, challenging times for the arts, and even more challenging times for literary journals. We appreciate the support of readers, writers, donors, and the community. You can find a tab to a donation link on our website, tarriverpoetry.com

Join us on Sunday at the End Paper Art Festival at the North Carolina Museum of Art to hear readings from the poet, Dean...
19/09/2025

Join us on Sunday at the End Paper Art Festival at the North Carolina Museum of Art to hear readings from the poet, Dean Tuck. In addition to reading his winning poem from the Tar River Poetry ekphrasis competition, he will also read from his book Twinless Twin. See the flyer for additional event details, and read a review of Dean Tuck’s Twinless Twin by Jason Mott, 2021 National Book Award Winner, below.

“A dreamy tale that unravels with hypnotic precision. A story of love and secrets, all played out against a backdrop of meticulous, flowing writing. The best stories are the ones that leave readers with decisions to make: about themselves, about life, about the world… Twinless Twin leaves readers with all of those difficult choices and more. It’s a novel that relies heavily on the established traditions of rural storytelling--with its tropes of magic, danger, and folklore--while grappling with contemporary themes with no loss of momentum or impact. In short: a wonderful story.”

We have some new social media friends, so it's time to reintroduce our Tar River Poetry team! Meet the editor, Helena Fe...
19/09/2025

We have some new social media friends, so it's time to reintroduce our Tar River Poetry team! Meet the editor, Helena Feder.

Helena Feder has published poems, essays, and interviews in venues including North American Review, The Georgia Review, Radical Philosophy, Orion, ISLE, ASAP/Journal, Terrain.org, The Writer's Chronicle, Another Chicago Magazine, After the Art, Guernica, Green Letters, Tikkun, Western American Literature, and Critical Read. Helena is Editor of Tar River Poetry and Professor of Environmental Humanities at ECU; she’s the author of Ecocriticism and the Idea of Culture (Routledge) and editor of two books: You Are the River (NCMA) and Close Reading the Anthropocene (Routledge).

Our first big reading event is less than a week away! Please join us this coming Sunday at the North Carolina Museum of ...
15/09/2025

Our first big reading event is less than a week away! Please join us this coming Sunday at the North Carolina Museum of Art in the auditorium of the East Building at 11:00 AM. The winners and honorable mentions of our very first competition will be reading their wonderful work. The event is free and open to the public. We look forward to seeing you there!

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