Poetry (Resources) We Admire: Renee Good
In this Poetry We Admire column, we honor Renee Good by sharing her poetry and other poems pertinent to this moment in time, along with resources and organizations in Minnesota that you can support.
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Rural Erotica
By Hayley Clin
“from sternum to Eden, / curving over ribs to stand / on the small of your back.”
Event Horizon
“I lift my dress to reveal an abyss into which the audience begins falling. // I: Holes at the center.”
Somewhere Light
By Svetlana Sterlin & Rae White
“dormant injury flares fluorescence through insomnia / am I nothing but cat reclined in day’s fading sunbeam?”
Ocean Radish: A Correspondence
By Samar Abulhassan & Sierra Nelson
“Is the poem on the underside / if I lift this letter up / like a barnacled rock?”
Excerpts from the Pinocchio Interviews
“And that magic’s smell—vernix and blood / and sweat and earth—I didn’t register it / as life. I sensed it and saw my decay.”
Deadlines: December 2025 & January 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.
Those Pigeons, Missiles, and Submission
“a cruel writer / a wrathful god watching you run / through a veiled aperture in heaven.”
Catalogues of a Space Telescope around Boy Crushes, in 5 stages of Grief
By Charlie Wei
“There’s something elliptic about the way love dies in this compound: in west / wing, a college girl stacks another freshly killed into her ex’s jewelry box.”