Palette Poetry Resources Page
Curated by our editors and reading team, these poetry resources will help you improve your craft and increase your chances of acceptance.
First, read our core resource posts below with advice on rhyming, punctuation, proofreading, and form. Then, learn more about submitting your own craft essay to our ongoing Craft Notebook column!
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The Palette Craft Notebook
“Craft is too grand and foreign a word to describe what gets done most days in your pajamas.” —Zadie Smith
Welcome to the Palette Craft Notebook, where emerging and established poets are invited to engage with the craft of poetry in longform craft essays. Each month, we will feature a new writer and a new craft focus. The goal of the Craft Notebook is to connect submitters, practitioners, and published poets through a close study of craft. We are interested in helping poets close the gap between practice and publication by providing accessible, focused, and educational craft resources in the field of poetry.
Always open, always free to submit, and always reading both pitches and finished work, we hope to demystify the language that instructors and editors use when referring to craft, such as meter, line breaks, and turn.
The Palette Craft Notebook is curated by our Craft Editor, Joanna Acevedo. Born and raised in New York City, Joanna is a writer, editor, and educator, as well as the author of three books and two chapbooks. Her writing has been seen across the web and in print; she received her MFA from New York University in 2021 and also holds degrees from The New School and Bard College. She has been working with Palette Poetry since 2020.
