A church is any 2 who meet with me
“and only men can brush their hands across the / cages by the altar as the schoolchildren’s feet are clanking on the marble ceiling”
2024-25 Previously Published Poem Prize: Winners & Finalists
Please join us in congratulating these remarkable poets. Winners were selected by Palette editors.
Deadlines: April & May 2025
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.
Cover Letter
“Satisfied bodies bloom green. / I othered art, / marketing my past.”
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.
Jeans of the Disappeared Man
“the baby could have a family name, but spoken aloud, / he would be entirely American. John Paul, precious John Paul.”
A very accurate and complete profile of my grandmother
“That Door – Don’t Shut. / Just Cause – Your Birds Flew. / This Still – Our Home.”
One-Armed Prayer
By Vedran Husić
“grasping claws of tensile yellow / below skeleton blues whose delicate / tracery wafts into thin witnessed air—”