Every 15th of the month: new deadlines, new contests, and new opportunities for your voice to find the world. The next six weeks include: Our own Spotlight Award CLOSING TODAY!, Rattle, Tinderbox, BPJ, and The Night Heron Books.
The winner of this award will receive publication, $2000, and a unique opportunity to have themselves profiled across a quarter-page advertisement in Poets & Writers: bio, headshot, excerpt of work, and contact information for solicitation.
“Dear priests in drag, dear builders of mazes, / dear anti-smoking billboards, I don’t know / exactly how to be good.”
By Kim Harvey
It seems nearly everyone is craving something they’ve given up, so for our January Poetry We Admire, Palette offers you some delicious, nutritious, calorie-free poetry—specifically our own little “best of” collection of recently published poems around the net on theme of Body.
By Lee Peterson
“We cannot talk about refugees and not / talk about war or water. About the breath / into and out of the mouth and how this is union.”
By Tobias Wray
“The stories we tell ourselves / leap and fall like fish into air, // back into the water—its quick / lip. Traffic happens by.”
With Intersection, her monthly column, celebrated poet Chelsea Dingman enters a place of questions left hanging—of lyric understanding, of addiction, and womanhood, and politics, and death.
“wheeled in on a bed three times her size. / A bouquet of rotting meats, / organs, & calaveras ensconced / between her lips.”
Every 15th of the month: new deadlines, new contests, and new opportunities for your voice to find the world. The next six weeks include: … , & more.