“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.

Deadlines: February & March 2026

By Palette Poetry

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.

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Featured Poetry submissions are:

Always free. Always open.
$50 per accepted poem.

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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.

Cloud Translation

By Michael Bazzett

“And where that cloud ends and other clouds begin / is open to discussion, and that conversation / is ongoing and unending”

Poetry

Fear

By Marvellous Mmesomachi Igwe

“There was a world beyond that boundary of / unknowing. For lack of a better adjective, the // chatbot tells me it is almond-sized,”

Poetry

Hadal Zone

By Emily Adams-Aucoin

“It’s an eyeless ocean, cold / and sibilant. It ruins me / to know that there’s an inner / body that I can’t access.”