Septuagenarian Abecedarian Love Song
By Tina Blade
“Superimpose over all of this a photo of our younger selves— / tight smiles and a greedy earnestness that nearly // undid us—”
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2025 Love & Eros Prize: Winners & Finalists
Please join us in congratulating these remarkable poets. Winners were selected by Sun Yung Shin.
there is no place for tigers
“in the end : the body recedes into veils of budded / jasmine : cottoncloth in the underground country / do you understand?”
Deadlines: June & July 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.
Florilegium #2: Witness and the Natural World
By Sara Dudo
“Florilegium” is an explorative column by nature enthusiast, poet, adjunct instructor, and Palette’s associate editor Sara Dudo. With one foot in the literary world and the other in the horticultural, Sara will examine writing and poetry through the lens of collection, both of literary gathering and literal gathering of flowers, plants, maps, insects, and more.
Bog Body Love Poem
By Mary Simmons
“Winter-humid parts, / nosy parts, love the murk of my eyes, then / love my eyes. Make love an ouroboros.”
Initial Transmission 12.92.09:36
“The moon a waning crescent, / the earth a turquoise clock ticking into Capricorn, // landing scheduled, solstice Monday.”
What Hummingbirds Mean
“She asks what I like / about language. I say: That it tries what it can’t // accomplish.”
Medusa
“I know it’s not the same: freezing a thing versus / turning it to stone. / But I might put my oocytes in limbo to try?”