Flaming June
“combing a canyon meadow for wildflowers, letting pale tendrils trail / over my limbs. It’s all I’m good for, existence in the cadmium red stillness of summer.”
2025 Nature Poetry Prize: Winners & Finalists
Please join us in congratulating these remarkable poets. Winners were selected by Aimee Nezhukumatathil.
Sixth Mass Extinction
“Name this revenge. Name it absence. Name / the embers numberless as stars as / our daughter walks alone”
The Season of Smoke
By Nwodo Divine
“At the mouth of the village, children gather snail shells. / They press them to their ears to listen to the death of rain.”
Featured Poetry
We are so grateful to every poet who shares their work with us—please enjoy perusing the stunning work in our poetry archive.
Sonnet Overheard at Phone Booth
By Elane Kim
“I am leaving a message at the tone and a song / that will loop and a bird or two to peck at all the crumbs / I have left behind.”
Deadlines: October & November 2025
Every middle of the month: new deadlines, new contests, and new opportunities for your work to find its audience. Here is a roundup of ten submission opportunities with deadlines in the next two months.
“Self-Portrait as Adam’s Rib” and “Eschatology”
By Salma Amrou
“peeling the skin of the same fruits until we peeled / back our own, to read our palms better, only // to find a line drawn straight down the middle, / one our mapless fingers could not cross.”