I Eat Poets’ Words for Dinner
“But when I seek a kindred spirit excited to chew the fatty gristle of the English language, I often have to scramble out of the trenches and run to the nearest poet.”
Columns
Florilegium #1
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.
Deadlines: February & March 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.
On Poems That Won’t Let Go of Us Just Yet
“I would spend hours editing poems, and then miss submission deadlines—on purpose. Life had become a bumper car ride over the preceding years, and at that point in time, each rejection landed like yet another blow I did not need.”
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.
Deadlines: October & November 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.
Deadlines: August & September 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.
Deadlines: June & July 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.
Community, Not Competition: A New Approach for Emerging Poets
“Competition is ingrained in the literary ecosystem. So much of being an emerging poet feels competitive, like you’re competing against other voices to be seen and read… But that doesn’t have to be all there is to being a poet.”