This Suburban Child Yearns for a Stereotypical Post-Apocalyptic World Overgrown with Weeds
By Hanwen Zhang
“the heaving of cyanobacteria / blooms in steaming lakes / no less bustling with life / than a field of dandelions”
Septuagenarian Abecedarian Love Song
By Tina Blade
“Superimpose over all of this a photo of our younger selves— / tight smiles and a greedy earnestness that nearly // undid us—”
2025 Love & Eros Prize: Winners & Finalists
Please join us in congratulating these remarkable poets. Winners were selected by Sun Yung Shin.
there is no place for tigers
“in the end : the body recedes into veils of budded / jasmine : cottoncloth in the underground country / do you understand?”
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.
Deadlines: June & July 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.
Florilegium #2: Witness and the Natural World
By Sara Dudo
“Florilegium” is an explorative column by nature enthusiast, poet, adjunct instructor, and Palette’s associate editor Sara Dudo. With one foot in the literary world and the other in the horticultural, Sara will examine writing and poetry through the lens of collection, both of literary gathering and literal gathering of flowers, plants, maps, insects, and more.
Bog Body Love Poem
By Mary Simmons
“Winter-humid parts, / nosy parts, love the murk of my eyes, then / love my eyes. Make love an ouroboros.”