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
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
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
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?
We’re always excited when our past contributors have new books out. Check out Douglas Cole’s The Blue Island, available from Kelsay Books. If you are a past contributor who’s got something new to share, please let us know. We love to support the Atlanta Review fam!
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
It’s summer which means we’re about to take a month off from receiving new work so that we can catch up on all the general/ contest submissions you’ve sent us—well, we will try anyway! Our Submittable portal will be closed from June 1-30 for general submissions. (Of course, you can always snail mail us work
If you’ve been sitting on the fence about sending in your poetry to our International Poetry Contest, what are you waiting for? The contest closes at 11:59 p.m. tomorrow, May 15th! The time for procrastination is over!
Attention undergraduate poets–here’s a bright idea for you: Would you like to see your poem in print AND win $100 prize? Of course you would! The Dan Veach Prize for Younger Writers is open to undergraduate students from 18-23, and it’s free to enter. (You just need a Submittable account, which is also free, to