New month, new courage: submit yourself to these fellowships, magazines, awards and internships. Remember, too, acceptances and rejections are by-products of this journey—crafting your authentic art is the goal. And as always, submit poetry for free to our New Voices.…
Owen McLeod here delivers a poem both playful and sinister—a carnival mirror that shoves back uncomfortable truths in its twisting reflection. The hashtags and the copyrights give “Three Moments…” a certain childishness, like a drawing a kid would make for…
NOW CLOSED We are incredibly excited for this unique partnership to kick-off 2019: the Antioch-Frontier Fellowship! OPEN to all English speaking poets based in America—with or without an MFA. CLOSES on Feburary 28th! Add to My Calendar Antioch University’s MFA…
For December’s column, Luther Hughes is curating ten amazing poems by ten amazing queer poets of color, published in 2018. A special thank you to all these poets for allowing us to reprint your work! I often think of end-of-the-year…
Today is the day! Proud to present Kirk Schlueter’s wrenching “The Anorexic’s Aubade,” selected by Victoria Chang for the $3000 prize. The poem is tender—medium rare—haunting like an empty stomach, and speaks in a voice like prayer across a handful…
We’re all very excited to share with you the winners of the 2018 Award for New Poets, selected by Victoria Chang. Today, we’re continuing with our second place winner, “Heart postpartum” by Cara Waterfall—wherein so much relies on the heart…
We’re all very excited to share with you the winners of the 2018 Award for New Poets, selected by Victoria Chang. Today, we have “Self-Portrait No. 5” by Cynthia Manick—a lovely poem of birds and bellies and the inevitable struggle…
2018 has been an amazing year of poetry for us—we couldn’t have been more honored to share the work of our amazingly talented contributors. Thank you to everyone who sent us poetry, hearts laid bare. Please enjoy below our selection…
Here’s a short selection of some of the best new poems hitting the web this December. These five poets, both established and emerging, deserve your attention and support, featuring work from POETRY, Foundry Journal, Rust + Moth, The Rumpus, and…
The past can be a plague, an ever-present intrusion of darkness—Shapiro walks us into the shadow sweetly here, carefully with image and enjambment and long, rolling sentences. A family wakes together on a weekday: the father, the mother and daughters,…
