Poets & Writers

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When compiling Love After the End: An Anthology of Two-Spirit and Indigiqueer Speculative Fiction (Arsenal Pulp Press, September 2020), editor Joshua Whitehead writes that it was important “to queer it towards the utopian.” He adds: “We have already

Poets & Writers

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I just finished reading Jay Baron Nicorvo’s essay “Why We Write: The Unwilling Suspension of Disbelief” (January/February 2018), and I am so happy you chose to publish it. When I published my first book of poetry, The Silence of Men, released by Cava

Scoop

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HOW DID YOU COME UP WITH AN IDEA FOR YOUR COMPETITION POEM? I just thought about writing something not overly complex or intricate because poetry generally doesn’t have a plot. I also believed that writing something humorous would add to the competi

The Christian Science Monitor

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A 1395 translation of the Bible demonstrates that the word 'sad' didn’t mean what it does now.

The Paris Review

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This year, The Paris Review will engage in an exciting mission to expand its reaches through the world of poetry. For each of our next four issues, our editor, Emily Nemens, will work in tandem with four quite different, highly esteemed poets to find

Poets & Writers

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The Song Cave I was never here. I’m not coming back. I’m at sea. —from “Crystal Radio” HOW IT BEGAN: This book is a collection of mostly discrete poems that I wrote in graduate school (a handful were written in the time before and after). I never set

Poets & Writers

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“Poetry can change your life, and it doesn’t happen on the page; it happens in the rooms and places where poetry connects you to people who change how you are in the world,” says Megan Burns, publisher of Trembling Pillow Press (tremblingpillowpress.

Writer's Digest

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Every year, I am delighted by the new crop of poems I get to read for the Writer’s Digest Poetry Awards. Then, I’m faced with the hard work of figuring out which poem rises above the others. It’s no simple task to rank one poem above another, especia

Writing Magazine

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Manchester Cathedral Poetry Competition 2020 is open for entries. There is a £500 first prize in the competition for spiritual or broadly religious poems Enter original, unpublished poems up to forty lines. The first prize is £500, and there are seco

Writing Magazine

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£150 TO BE WON EVERY MONTH It’s 100 years since the death of John Keats, so we’re asking you to commemorate him with a poem inspired by any aspect of his life and work Spread some joy with the April poetry comp, as we ask you to write a humorous poem

The Paris Review

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In our column Poetry Rx, readers write in with a specific emotion, and our resident poets—Sarah Kay, Kaveh Akbar, and Claire Schwartz—take turns prescribing the perfect poems to match. This week, Sarah Kay is on the line. ©Ellis Rosen Dearest Poets,

Scoop

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HOW DID YOU COME UP WITH AN IDEA FOR YOUR COMPETITION POEM? The criteria was ‘place’ and the first thing that came to my mind was home. Home to me means many things one of which is Scotland, which is where I have lived all my life. So I decided to b

Writing Magazine

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The Poetry Society has announced that the world’s biggest competition for poets aged 11 to 17, the Foyle Young Poets of the Year Award, is open for entries for the 2020 competition. Winners’ prizes include mentoring, Arvon courses, Poetry Society mem

The American Poetry Review

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Stone is tenderto lichen.Lichen is tenderto the earth and its otherinhabitants. What areyou and I tender to? When a black holeswallows a star,it must do sotenderly, sincea universe hingeson tenderness. At midnightyour candle burnswith tenderness,drea

Poets & Writers

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BY DANA ISOKAWA THE TEN poetry collections featured in our thirteenth annual roundup of debut poets offer a glimpse of the wide range of contemporary poetry. Each of the books, published in 2017, shows just how much poetry can do. Eve L. Ewing’s Elec

Literary Hub

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In the first of a series looking at the work being done at writing and artists’ residences across America (and beyond!), we’re checking in with the Millay Colony for the Arts in upstate New York (about two hours north of NYC). We asked several recent

Writing Magazine

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The Winchester Poetry Prize 2020 is open for entries. The international competition invites entries of original, unpublished poems up to 40 lines. The first prize is £1,000 and there are second and third prizes of £500 and £250. Winning and commended

Writing Magazine

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The Plough 2021 Poetry Prize is open for entries This year the annual competition from Plough Arts Centre will be judged by Roger The competition is for original, unpublished poetry up to forty lines. The first prize is £1,000 and there are second an

Writing Magazine

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Buzzwords Poetry Competition 2020 is inviting entries. The competition, which is for original, unpublished poems up to seventy lines, will be judged by Penelope Shuttle. Proceeds from the competition will be used to fund the Buzzwords poetry night in

The American Poetry Review

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“Likenesses is an origin myth, in that it attempts to create the world by naming it. But it’s too late in the game to imagine that whatever is named could simply be, without at the same time being—becoming—something else. Or many somethings elses…. I

Scoop

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Where do you like to write? Anywhere outdoors. Nature is calming and peaceful so it’s easier to really concentrate, but at the same time it’s inspiring. Last year at the Betjeman Poetry Camp we spent five days living in tents in the grounds of Wadde

New Zealand Listener

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The poet teaches creative writing at Massey University, Auckland. Her third collection is FELT (Massey University Press, $24.99). I didn’t like sixth form French. But I did love the set text: LE SILENCE DE LA MER, by Jean Bruller under the pseudonym

Writing Magazine

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The Poetry London Prize is inviting international entries. The first prize is £5,000. The second prize is £2,000 and the third, £1,000. This year’s judge is poet and translator Ilya Kaminsky. The winning poems will be published by Poetry London in pr

Writing Magazine

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Prizes are £600, £300 and £150 in the Ware Poets Open Poetry Competition 2021. Enter original, unpublished poems up to 50 lines. There is also a special £150 prize for the best sonnet submitted. Winners and shortlisted entries will be published in an

Writing Magazine

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Segora International Writing Competitions 2021 has categories for poetry, short stories, vignettes and one-act plays. The annual creative writing contest is run by Poetry Prose and Plays. • Poetry: Enter original, unpublished poems up to 50 lines. Th

Poets & Writers

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Age: Sixty-four. Residence: Albuquerque, New Mexico. Book:Ground, Wind, This Body (University of New Mexico Press, March), a poetry collection exploring the vestiges of war and redemption as a traumatized soldier returns home from WWII carrying a leg

Writing Magazine

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Win £1,000 first prizes in the Open and EAL categories of the Oxford Brookes International Poetry Competition Enter original, unpublished poems no longer than 50 lines. The competition is for new and established poets and international entries are we

Writing Magazine

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Wells Festival of Literature is inviting entries for its 2020 creative writing competitions. The competitions are in the following categories: • Open Poetry. The first prize is £1,000, and there are second and third prizes of £500 and £250. Enter poe

Writing Magazine

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The Canterbury Festival Poet of the Year Competition 2020 is inviting entries. The international competition invites entries from poets anywhere in the world. There is a first prize of £200, a second prize of £100 and a third prize of £50. There is a

Writing Magazine

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Short Circuit is an unusual short story and poetry market which delivers its content in dispensers in busy public places. They want to ‘inspire, delight, move, and challenge readers’ with quick reads to distract them on their commute or while visitin