Beyond Shakespeare: Rhyming Poetry in Modern Day
We’ve all heard it. “Sonnet 18,” “Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?” Or maybe it’s Walt …
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Don’t Look So (Verb) Tense: Proofreading and Other Best Practices for Submitters
You’re ready to submit. You’ve gotten your poems together. This contest sounds like the perfect fit for your …
OK Ladies, Now Get In Formation: Tips on Quickly Elevating Form For Emerging Writers
Poet Ocean Vuong—author of Night Sky With Exit Wounds and On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous (among others) has …
Quick, Quick, Slow: Punctuation Tips for Poets
For writers of prose, academic, technical, or even creative writing, the idea of poetry—where there are no “rules”—can …
[Operation X: Find the Secret Files]
“add: checked [in the beginning, there was a void world, / & god made a terrace out of bones, & the bones became bodies,”
Interview with Nicole Wan-Ting Lee, Winner of the 2024 Previously Published Poem Prize
Winner of the 2024 Previously Published Poem Prize Nicole Wan-Ting Lee for “Deluge: A Chinese Almanac” — first …
If I Imagine Love at All
“I have not yet inhaled the hair of this man / who will take me in my too-rough sheets.”
Deadlines: August & September 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.
Partition Happened to Us Too
By ena ganguly
“the whispers do not fail to reach our ears / like spider webs we walk into them / without knowing it”