Every middle of the month: new deadlines, new contests, and new opportunities for your work to find its audience. Here is a roundup of submission opportunities with deadlines in May or June, including Palette’s Sappho Prize, the Auburn Witness Prize, fellowships, residencies, and others.
“shame / is just another word for refusing to burn / down the palace”
By Megan Kim
This May, Megan Kim spotlights four poems for Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month.
“I recited the what for you / The wallpaper, peristaltic, listened & interred”
By I.S. Jones
The Legacy Suite is a three-part interview series in which poets delve into the tumultuous journey of publishing a debut full-length collection: before publication, during, and after. For this interview, I.S. Jones spoke with poet Aricka Foreman about her debut full-length collection, Salt Body Shimmer (YesYes Books, 2020).
By Jane Zwart
“these studies are stirred / from other colors. The leaf turns / brown because it has been green / and gold and red.”
By Robin Myers
In The Guest, poet and literary translator Robin Myers explores poetry translation as process, practice, vocation, meditation, and craft. Drawing both on her own projects-in-progress and the work of other translators, The Guest is a kind of diary, a thinking-out-loud about the pleasures, challenges, and decisions required—and invited—by bringing poems into another language. To do them justice and to make them new.
“I dwell inside / the eye of your brain, the word on the page: me, / split for anyone to try.”
How many words do I / know for hunger? What is the nestling space /
between two countries / of conflict called?