Swimming Lesson
“the familiar games you invented: / complicated, one-foot races across // the shallow end.”
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Deadlines: February & March 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.
Interview with Akhim Yuseff Cabey, Winner of the 2024 Rising Poet Prize
Winner of the 2024 Rising Poet Prize Akhim Yuseff Cabey for “Olentangy River, 2019” Akhim Yuseff Cabey was …
Inheritance
By Odin Meadows
“Light from the / dining room is spilling out the hole, I keep forgetting / it’s right above the dinner table.”
Olentangy River, 2019
“god bless, then, the poisonous / carp these fishermen toss // back into the river,”
Stevie Wonder boulevard
By Tamar Ashdot
“music spills out of a storefront across the street. / the space is filled with sienna subway tiled walls and sugars / in glass jars”
This Little Piggy Went to the Market
“This little piggy listens to murder podcasts while she paints her nails. // This little piggy listens to BTS and makes vegan enchiladas from scratch. // This little piggy also has nightmares about wolves.”
2024 Rising Poet Prize: Winners & Finalists
Please join us in congratulating these remarkable poets. Winners were selected by Morgan Parker.
Prayers of a Young Immigrant
By Zia Wang
“4:45 am, one more prayer before going back to sleep, thirty-three / amber tasbih beads warm between my fingers”