As a platform for emerging poets, our mission is to provide practical help for serious writers. The community lifts itself up together or not at all. In that light, we’ve been asking some great editors from around the literary community…
Alyson Kissner’s “Night Psalms” speaks with piercing, prophetic brevity. “Ask me,” the speaker begs, and invites us into a question that the poem allows to expand like darkness within its numbered framework. Night Psalms 1 Let there be light, He…
Congratulations to the winners of our inaugural Nature & Place Prize, and thank you to everyone who submitted! We’re delighted to announce that Anna Newman has been selected for the $3000 prize by our amazing judge, Amaud Johnson. Dan Barton…
We love the daring of a condensed poem, and Meghan Kemp-Gee’s “A Bird in Blue” is condensed yet complex. Its sharp turns convey transformation, opening a world inside its ten lines. A Bird in Blue On the wire, one says,…
read and download our 2021 Chapbook Contest winner
selected by Kazim Ali
// by Abby Johnson //
read and download our 2020 Chapbook Contest winner
selected by Carl Phillips
// by Frederick Speers //
read and download our 2019 Chapbook Contest winner
selected by Jericho Brown
// by Naima Tokunow //
read and download our 2018 Chapbook Contest winner
// by Xiao Yue Shan //