Untitled (Monkey Mask)
“The floor is night vision green / and the walls are green / and the greeness spans all we can see.”
Dating in the Apocalypse Bunker
“And we’re dressed to the nines, in our cleanest / boots, the dust scrubbed from our tanks / until they gleam.”
Deadlines: October & November 2024
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.
[sand sultan]
“Here are gates with welcoming arms, drapes, gardens // that are all swings and slides.”
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.
Ars Poetica: 13
By Shutta Crum
“in the tree are three buds / one will flower into a poem / eat the other two”
Mother
By Rongfei Mu
“But I know you’re listening, / From the pale blue waves on the monitor / That I ride.”
“Maria’s Jawbone” and “Declaration from the Hopyard”
By Karla Yaritza Maravilla Zaragoza
Two poems by Karla Yaritza Maravilla Zaragoza.
“it began with silk / devils bleaching brown kernels and selling bottled ice / tea”