The 2019 Previously Published Poem Prize is CLOSING TODAY!
Last day to submit to our 2019 Emerging Poet Prize: $3000 for a single poem! Judged by Kim Addonizio.
Pantoum by Charles Mingus
“Music, look at your history. Man / sounds sharp to me. Sounds like / someone has been escaping reality / on his hands and knees.”
Our 2020 Second Book Fellow is Caits Meissner
We are honored to announce that Caits Meissner has been selected as the 2020 Second Book Fellow for Palette Poetry!
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“I grind my teeth. / I bite my nails. / As of this morning / I’ve accrued / thirteen hundred / american weeks.”
Featured Poetry
We are so grateful to all of our partner-poets for sharing their work with us—please enjoy their beautiful words in our Featured Poetry catalogue.
Pocho Boy #2
By Alan Chazaro
“Pocho Boy Meets World” is a Latinx poetry column written by California poet, Alan Chazaro. Join him as he eats his share of quesadillas and uses broken Spanish in hopes of connecting more deeply with what it means to be a U.S. Latinx writer in Latin America.
An Excommunicated Nun Gave Me The Sand Dollar She Kept With Her Worry Dolls
“These chambers are filled with salt / stalactites—all yours. I would give this back / to you on your tongue. If that / would heal you.”
Periodic #8
By Franny Choi
“Periodic” is a monthly column by poet Franny Choi. Every month, she writes a short column on the first day of her period—a check-in that might cover issues of gender, queerness, writing, health, and/or love.