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.
Not to rush you, but Atlanta Review’s annual International Poetry competition has little over a week until it closes for the year. Make sure you get your poems in! We can’t wait to read them.
Got your poems picked out for our annual contest? Of course you have!
Get ready for your chance to win the grand prize of $1000 and publication in Atlanta Review! The contest opens tomorrow, and we are so excited to read what you send us!
Deets:
Our contest runs from Feb. 1st to May 1st. Submission fee is $15/5 poems. Enter as many times as you want, provided you pay the submission fee each time.
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!
Kurt wins the $1000 prize, and his poem, along with the wonderful poems by the other Finalists, will appear in the fall issue. Congratulations to Kurt and to all of the Finalists! You make Atlanta Review awesome!
Kurt Luchs has poems published or forthcoming in Into the Void, Right Hand Pointing, and The Sun Magazine. He won the 2017 Bermuda Triangle Poetry Prize, and was the First Runner-Up for the 2019 Fischer Poetry Prize. He has written humor for the New Yorker, the Onion, and McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, as well as writing comedy for television and radio. His books include a humor collection, It’s Funny Until Someone Loses an Eye (Then It’s Really Funny) (2017 Sagging Meniscus Press), and a poetry chapbook, One of These Things Is Not Like the Other (2019 Finishing Line Press). More of his work, both poetry and humor, is at kurtluchs.com. He lives and works in Kalamazoo, Michigan, where he has no outstanding warrants.
The Finalists:
“Mexican Tongue,” JD Amick
“[Letter of Love] to Ojīchan,” Aozora Brockman
“Self Portrait with Rubble,” Sylvia Foley
“A pledge to the dead requires no proof,” Jennifer L. Hollis
“Corpse,” Dana Jaye
“Meditation on a Trash Fire in My Backyard,” Robert J. Keeler
“Quantum Heart,” Kathleen Kirk
“Waiting for Mother’s Geraniums,” Pingmei Lan
“One Intimate Morning,” Belle Ling
“Nighttime in Jericho,” Jo-Ann Mort
“Stones without People and the Art of the Mulberry,” Adele Ne Jame
“Consumption of a Black Hole and Sweat Bees,” John Nieves
“Thin Places,” Edward Nudelman
“Thought Experiment,” Edward Nudelman
“Apples, Crabapples,” David Rock
“Sometimes, Briefly,” Kelly Rowe
“Unscrolling,” Joan Roberta Ryan
“Spring Freeze,” Joan Roberta Ryan
“Dead Woman’s Hollow Road,” Nicole Santalucia
“What White Lies Beneath,” Heidi Seaborn
“Prelude to a Resurrection,” d.r. shipp
“She Zuo Bin’s Rite of Spring,” Mary Spalding
“Where We Call to Nest,” Felicia Zamora
“Turbulence: Night Flight to Cairo,” Kristin Zimet
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
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.
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!
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 in June if you simply MUST send us your poems.)