Exploring the Edges of Contemporary Poetry

Poetry: Interview with Nancy Miller Gomez, Guest Judge for 2024 Debut Chapbook Contest

Poet Nancy Miller Gomez chose the winner of our 2024 Debut Chapbook Contest, Examining a Dress, by Jessie Leary, which will be out in the fall. She also did us the honor of answering a few questions about poetry, her own poetic…

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Poetry: “To a Friend Who Does Not Believe in God” by Geoff White

Geoff White’s poem is quietly brilliant in its repetition and its devious device. The way it plays with spacing, flipping, and mirroring creates all kinds of possibilities. No matter what our beliefs, we all understand the way people we love…

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Poetry: “Speech” by Edward Manzi

“Speech,” by Edward Manzi doesn’t give us much, but there is a slightly tongue-in-cheek aspect to this tiny little gem of a prose poem. The poem is ostensibly about speech, but it’s really about much more. Manzi’s poem is about…

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Read Our Award Winning Chapbooks

Opportunity Cost

read and download our 2021 Chapbook Contest winner

selected by Kazim Ali

// by Abby Johnson //

IN THE YEAR OF OUR MAKING & UNMAKING

read and download our 2020 Chapbook Contest winner

selected by Carl Phillips

// by Frederick Speers //

Shadow Black

read and download our 2019 Chapbook Contest winner

selected by Jericho Brown

// by Naima Tokunow //

How Often I Have Chosen Love

read and download our 2018 Chapbook Contest winner

selected by Joshua Roark

// by Xiao Yue Shan //

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