visiting my parents after my dad puts up a MAGA sign
By Aether
“the world outside wasn’t real / laid inside its steeple, let sunlight drift in / through its stained glass of vines and leaves.”
2025 Queer Poetry Prize: Winners & Finalists
Please join us in congratulating these remarkable poets. Winners were selected by CAConrad.
Amateur dykes
“The sun lazes up / there as if drunk on Bolivian moonshine and altitude, // as we are.”
Meditation in a College Composition Classroom
By Qiang Meng
“I read The Three-Body Problem by Liu Cixin and believed our / universe was foldable like aluminum foil.”
Featured Poetry
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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.
Another Clumsy Man
By Paul Ilechko
“sitting on a broken fence as the crabs // split their shells chunks of raw abalone / dripping from the beaks of gulls”
Love Poems in the Wasteland
By Guo Feifei
“I’d / let the quiet wastelands of our bodies overlap, be / watched by our neighbors in this country.”