Fruit & Vegetables Picked from Daily Life
By Iris Lee
“I fell in love with a broccoli woman whose head flowered / into florets of poetry. At first, her presence / was nutritious. We were both so green,”
A Short History of my Gag Reflex
“I’ve been trying to whip sore / wounds into weapons, if only through language; / the tight lisp of my new name,”
The American Eel
By Mark Spero
“long and hungry, / contained, an / unbroken tube / of being.”
2025 Queer Poetry Prize: Winners & Finalists
Please join us in congratulating these remarkable poets. Winners were selected by CAConrad.
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.
Amateur dykes
“The sun lazes up / there as if drunk on Bolivian moonshine and altitude, // as we are.”
Meditation in a College Composition Classroom
By Qiang Meng
“I read The Three-Body Problem by Liu Cixin and believed our / universe was foldable like aluminum foil.”
Deadlines: June & July 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.