This year we are introducing another contest to our roster: the chapbook competition! You can submit chapbooks up to 20 pages long (not counting a title page with just the title on it, a table of contents, and an acknowledgements page) between Dec. 1-31 on our Submittable page. We are looking for remarkable poetry of
Congratulations to Carol O’Brien for winning the International Poetry Grand Prize for her wonderful poem “The Woman in the Attic.” The prize comes with $1000 and publication in the Fall issue. Jeannine Hall Gailey judged. Carol holds a Bachelor of Arts in English from West Chester University. She is currently an unpublished poet* based in
The International Poetry Contest is open once more! We so look forward to reading your dazzling poems from across the world…or across town! Send us your best! Contest fee is $15/5 poems (up to 10 pages total). The Grand Prize is $1000 and publication! Twenty Finalists will also be published, and thirty Merit Winners will
We’re so excited to share that Kareem Tayyar wins this year’s International Poetry Contest! Kareem wins $1000 and publication in the Fall issue. Victoria Chang was the final judge. His most recent collection, Keats in San Francisco & Other Poems, was released in 2022 by Lily Poetry Review Books, and his work has appeared in
We’re thrilled to announce that Carter Rekoske has won this year’s Dan Veach Prize for his poem, “Prayer for Gratitude.” He has won $100 and his poem will be published in the upcoming Fall issue. Carter is a 21 year old creative writing student at Bryan College in Tennessee. He won the poetry award in
It’s that time of year again! We can’t wait to read your submissions for the 2023 International Poetry Contest. We want to read poems that sizzle, poems that make us cry or laugh or lose our breath. We want to be inundated with your beautiful and strange words. As always we appreciate all kinds of
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
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
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
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
