What Hummingbirds Mean
“She asks what I like / about language. I say: That it tries what it can’t // accomplish.”
A Scientist’s Sonnet
By Ashley Mo
“Sweet-mouthed, this child— / a jukebox of fissures, built upon a mother’s wilting smile.”
Insecticide
By Carina Solis
“this is the second morning i’ve brushed my tongue / in spit. the stink of panic worse”
Deadlines: April & May 2026
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.
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.
Homograph
“has the widow given birth to new beings / or / has the widow given birth to fragments / of her loss”
LA VIRGEN DE GUADALUPE APPEARS IN MY BATHROOM MIRROR
“Guadalupe tells me to pull it together! Time to chingona up, mija! / She palms my red nail polish and adorns her nails with OPI’s drop it like it’s hawt.”
Poetry We Admire: Rising Poets
By Sara Dudo
In this Poetry We Admire column, we revisit some of our previous Rising Poet Prize winners to see what new poems they have published.