From NYPL Digital Collections

Hi, Everyone!

We just wanted to give you an update on the contest:  we’re still reading submisions (there were a lot of them!), and still looking for a judge, but we’re hoping to finish up all decisions by October at the latest.  The Fall issue will come out in December, as usual.

Meanwhile, just a reminder that our fall general submission window opens in 38 days, on September 15th.  We’re looking forward to reading your new work!

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!

Fall Contest 2021 Open!

From NYPL Digital Collections

It’s February, so you know what that means:  we’re throwing open the doors on our annual International Poetry Contest!  As with last year, contest submissions are $15 for up to 5 poems per entry.  Enter as many times as you want.

One Grand Prize winner will receive $1000 and publication, and all Finalists will be published as well.  Thirty Merit Award winners will receive a copy of the Fall issue.

You can read all the details here on our Submittable site.

We look forward to your poems!  Happy submitting!

2019 International Poetry Contest Winner Announced!

Photo credit: Ellie Honl

We are so excited to share that this year’s winner our annual International Poetry Contest is Kurt Luchs, for his poem “Suzie.”

This year’s judge was Dan Vera.

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

Congratulations again!

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. 1959They 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

Contest Closing in Less Than a Month!

That’s right, everyone, our 2019 International Poetry Contest closes on May 15th, which means you have less than a month to get your poems into the contest.  What are you waiting for?

$10 lets you submit a packet of 3 poems.  Submit as many packets as  you want—the more the merrier.

Hurry, hurry!  Send us your poems!  We’re excited to read your work!

Check out our guidelines for more details!  And then submit!

International Poetry Contest Ready for Your Best Poems!

This year’s International Poetry Contest is up and running.  Send us your poems from around the globe!  We’re eager to read them.

What’s new:

  • We’ve lowered our contest submission fee to a flat rate–now you can submit any 3 poems for $10.  Enter as often as you like!  Send us 3 poems or 30, it’s up to you!
  • We have a new contest window:  Submit from February 1st-May 1st.

Check out our guidelines for more details!  And then submit!