Thimble is an online literary magazine, featuring art, poetry, and short prose. They publish issues quarterly. “At Thimble Literary Magazine, we believe armor can be found in the oddest of places: whether that’s facing a hard truth head-on or reframing it so you can better understand it. We […]
The End. Wouldn’t it be a relief if you could just end a poem like that? Every reader would know the poem had resoundingly concluded. However, most of us would like to be more subtle with our poetic craft, to signal the end with the structure of the poem, […]
The Penn Review was founded in 1951, making it the oldest continuously published literary magazine at the University of Pennsylvania. It was very exciting to have my poems “Three Miracles” (included in my new book A Godless Ascends) and “Preparation” previously featured at The Penn Review. They are […]
Last year, just in time for the spooky season, visual artist Sally Jane Brown and I produced an art and poetry book about West Virginia cryptids, What We Do In The Hollows. Because we’d been longtime collaborators in our day jobs, working together on Hollows was a natural […]
The Quasar Review is a global literary magazine dedicated to publishing people’s voices and broadcasting them across the world. It exists as a publisher for both accomplished and amateur creators, and its very name, Quasar, stands as a symbol of the strength of everyone’s voice when used to […]
My sincerest gratitude to New Verse News for publishing my duplex poem “Dear Judy” earlier this week. The events of September 10 were heartbreaking. Two people died that day. One person assassinated in the state where I lived most of my life and one in my new home […]
A poem with “after” and another poet’s name underneath the title is an “after” poem. A good example is Jane Zwart’s “All my Life I was a Bride married to Amazement,” after Mary Oliver’s “When Death Comes.” Identifying a previous poem that a new poem is “after” indicates […]
Wailing & Gnashing is a new poetry journal for outsiders. They are always open, accept reprints, and while standard response time in the future will be around three months, you can expect much faster response times for their first upcoming issue. Read more about why they created the […]
Humans are creatures of habit. It’s tempting to find one or two poetic forms you like and stick with them for the rest of your life. But don’t let yourself get complacent! No matter where you are on your poetry journey, it’s always useful to experiment with new […]
If you have poetry or other writing which has been previously published, but the readership was low or perhaps it was only in print and not online, you may want to submit it to literary magazines and journals that accept work as a reprint. There are two lists […]
