Journals That Publish Poetry Book Reviews by Diane Lockward

A big thank you to Diane Lockward for posting such a great list on her poetry blog! (It’s one less list for me to create.) The list provides links to each journal, frequency of publication, and reading periods. “Here is a list of journals, print and online, that […]

Best Places to Submit Poetry: A Ranking of Literary Magazines by John Fox + updated with payment/submission fees

Thanks to John Fox for putting together this amazing list of Best Places to Submit Poetry. He actually went through 5 years worth (2011 – 2015) of the anthology The Best American Poetry to see where the poems had been originally published. The result was a list of 147 literary magazines. […]

A writing exercise “Wine is Rain in Translation” by Rob Carney, guest blog post on Terrain.org

Rob Carney jumps right into metaphor in his most recent guest blog post on Terrain.org and then continues with an interesting writing exercise. “My friend Rick suggested this years ago: working out approximate versions in English based solely on the way another language looks . . . the […]

PAYING/NO FEE Submission call and interview–Subprimal Poetry Art, DEADLINE: June 30, 2017

Subprimal Poetry Art was founded in 2013 to provide a community for quality thought provoking poetry and other art. They “believe in poetry and other art that takes the reader / viewer / listener out of the ordinary and into an place altered from that which they normally experience. […]

My interview included in LES FEMMES FOLLES: THE WOMEN, 2016 + call for featured artists!

In celebration of Women's History Month last March, Les Femmes Folles: Women in Art, released the sixth edition of Les Femmes Folles: The Women, with 2016 including art, writing and interview excerpts from women in all forms, styles and levels of art, including my interview with them from […]

NO FEE Submission call + editor interview – Stirring's LOUD / SOFT / RESPOND, DEADLINE: June 1, 2017

Founded in 1999, by Sundress Publications, Stirring: A Literary Collection is one of the oldest continuously publishing journals on the internet. Stirring is a strictly electronic journal that publishes monthly issues on the first of each month. All of there past issues are available online in their Archives. To view their […]

NO FEE Submission call + editor interview – Stirring’s LOUD / SOFT / RESPOND, DEADLINE: June 1, 2017

Founded in 1999, by Sundress Publications, Stirring: A Literary Collection is one of the oldest continuously publishing journals on the internet. Stirring is a strictly electronic journal that publishes monthly issues on the first of each month. All of there past issues are available online in their Archives. To view their […]

NO FEE Submission call + editor interview – The Indianapolis Review, DEADLINE: June 10, 2017

The Indianapolis Review is an online quarterly poetry and art publication They “work to promote artists and writers from our region, but we also showcase work from around the country and the world.” I wondered how and why this poetry journal came to be, so I asked Founder and Editor In Chief […]

Why you need to read this book, The Lillian Trilogy by Mary Meriam – guest blog post by Siham Karami

The trend these days is to "defy categorization," to blur borders and write poetry in such a way that it becomes "more than" poetry, something so new as to be ground-breaking, unheard of, creating an apparent rift in the use of language. Mary Meriam takes a different tack. […]

Need poetry/writing prompts? Cahoodaloodaling’s prompts inspired by recently published poems

The online lit mag Cahoodaloodaling has a feature called Prasanna's Parrot Picks & Prompts - that highlights recently published poems from Sundress Publications and then suggests a related prompt for each one. Really excellent work by their staff member Prasanna Surakanti. This third issue does not disappoint! What I love most about this […]

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