Category: Poetry

Looking for Guest Editors for Our International Sections!

Atlanta Review prides itself on its Spring issues, which are focused on an international country or region.  Every year, we try to bring you the best new work, in translation, that we can.  But we can’t do it without guest editors, and that’s where you come in.

Are you fluent in another language?  We’re looking for volunteer guest editors who can solicit poetry, translate the work (if necessary), collect bios, organize the work, and write an introduction to it.  We look for roughly 40-50 manuscript pages (one poem per page).

If you’re interested, PLEASE get in touch with us at jc.reilly@lmc.gatech.edu.  We already have Spring 2024 and 2025 lined up, but we’ll be needing folks in the future and would love your help!  We’re especially eager to have an issue from France, if anyone is inclined.

Contact JC if you have any questions.  And thank you very much!

Last Week for the Contest!

If you’ve been waiting to send us your contest submission, first of all, what are you waiting for?  And second of all, Monday, May 1st is the last day to submit!

That’s right, May Day is the last day we’re accepting poems, so be sure to get them to us for a chance to win $1000 and publication.  (And then you can go back to dancing around the May Pole.) 🙂

Submit here!

 

Peruse Past Issues

–from the NYPL Digital Collections

We’ve been busy uploading sample poems from past issues so that you can see all the great poems that we’ve published down through the years.

The most recent past issues include Poetry 2014, Pakistan, and Poetry 2015, and you can find between 8-10 poem .pdfs per issue.  This project (like the Index Project) is time-consuming and slow-going, so be sure to check back periodically to see what “new” past issues we have available.

Hope you’re having a great summer!

Download Complete Issues

Like basic foods, poetry sustains us through the most difficult times. So, here at Atlanta Review we are providing what sustenance we can: free poetry.

We are now offering you an opportunity to download the Spring/ Summer 2018 South African Women Poets issue!

And in case you missed downloading the Spring/Summer 2020 issue, focusing on Cornwall and Wales, you can get that here as well.

South African Women Poets

Cornwall & Wales

Congrats to Our Pushcart Nominees!

Image courtesy of http://pushcartprize.com

We’re so excited to nominated six poets for a Pushcart Prize.  (The Pushcart honors the best writing in small presses.)  Our nominations (in no particular order) are:

        • “Ten Love Stories” by A. Molotkov
        • “Mexican Tongue” by JD Amick
        • “Back Among My Own” by Wendy Drexler
        • “Our First Time Making Love After the Funeral”  by Shannon Nakai
        • “I’m Happy to Drive You All the Way Home” by Caroline Goodwin
        • “She Zuo Bin’s Rite of Spring” by Mary Spalding

Congratulations to all of you!  Thank you for sharing your work with us (and the world!)  And very best luck to each of you!

Dan Veach Prize for Younger Poets–A Tie for Winner!

This year, two poems submitted for the Dan Veach Prize for Younger Poets were so exceptional, they both had to win.  That’s right:  we had a tie!  Both Ivy Marie Clarke, for her poem “Where to Find Poetry,” and Rema Shbaita, for their poem “Palestine is Upsidedown” will win the $100 prize, and their work will appear in the Fall issue.  Congratulations to Ivy and Rema, and to all the Finalists!

Rema Shbaita is a graduate of UC, Riverside and a former Co-Editor in Chief of The Mosaic Art & Literary Journal est. 1959. They don’t consider dandelions weeds and they’re allergic to grass.  They enjoy media about found families and slap-dash friendship groups. They’re working on getting into a PhD program for educational research.

Ivy Marie Clarke is an emerging writer and photographer from Georgia, where she is studying Creative Writing and English Literature at Mercer University. She is currently a preceptor for English classes at her university and an intern at Macon Magazine.

The Finalists:

      • “Hills (for Bia),” McKenzie Hurder
      • “On the Edge,” Christine Kannapel
      • “Self Portrait with a Hare,” Reuben Gelley Newman
      • “Self Portrait as Expatriated Sapling in North Beijing,” Benjamin Stallings

Hijito

Last year’s International Poetry Contest winner, Carlos Andrés Gómez, will be in Atlanta to promote his new poetry collection Hijito at Spoke ATL on Sept. 13th.  Can’t make the reading?  Check out his book.

And in case you missed his winning poem “Underground” from 2018, you can read it here.

Got a new book out?  Let us know!

 

 

Our Submittable Portal Is Open Again!

Did you miss us while we were closed to online submissions?  Of course you did.  And we missed you too!

Our doors are open once more!  You can start sending us your wonderful poems at Submittable.  We are ready for a new batch.  (Though tbh we’re still making our way through contest subs, so we ask  for our contest submitters’ continued patience while we finish reading your work–we received nearly 475 submissions this year).

Hope you’re having a great summer writing your hearts out!

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