Meditation and Writing – guest blog post by Mike Griffith, The Blue Nib poetry editor

I just went to the kitchen to put my coffee mug in the sink and the mesh drain filter was full of assorted debris: food scraps, a chunk of cat food, and something I can't identify. Yuck! As I knocked the filter into the garbage can to clear […]

Summer Journals (open for submissions) via 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 and reading periods. She recently updated it to include even more journals, so this is a […]

FREE Poetry Chapbook Contest, $250 Prize – Broken River Prize (Platypus Press), DEADLINE: July 31, 2019

Every once in a while a new press with new ideas and amazing projects appears on the literary scene. Platypus Press is one of those. I've been nothing but impressed with their creativity and professionalism. They are a boutique publisher based in England and seek to unearth innovative […]

My poem "glass-bottom boat" published in Juniper – A Poetry Journal + I'm back after a break!

So excited to have my poem “glass-bottom boat” published in Juniper – A Poetry Journal’s current Summer 2019 issue. The issue includes a lovely variety of poems and is worth spending some time reading through. This year has been a whirlwind of Utah Arts Festival coordination as their Literary […]

My poem “glass-bottom boat” published in Juniper – A Poetry Journal + I’m back after a break!

So excited to have my poem “glass-bottom boat” published in Juniper – A Poetry Journal’s current Summer 2019 issue. The issue includes a lovely variety of poems and is worth spending some time reading through. This year has been a whirlwind of Utah Arts Festival coordination as their Literary […]

NO FEE submission call & interview – What You Need to Know About Me Anthology, DEADLINE: July 1, 2019

"What You Need to Know About Me" is an exciting new anthology (published by The Hawkins Project, co-founded by Dave Eggers) that highlights the experiences of young people (ages 11-24) who have immigrated from one country to another. The International Alliance of Youth Writing Centers was conceived in […]

NO FEE submission call & interview – What You Need to Know About Me Anthology, DEADLINE: July 1, 2019

"What You Need to Know About Me" is an exciting new anthology (published by The Hawkins Project, co-founded by Dave Eggers) that highlights the experiences of young people (ages 11-24) who have immigrated from one country to another. The International Alliance of Youth Writing Centers was conceived in […]

My review of ‘Nightingale’ by Paisley Rekdal via 15 Bytes

My review of Nightingale by Paisley Rekdal was just published on 15 Bytes: Utah’s Art Magazine. If you’re interested in writing reviews, check out this post of Journals That Publish Poetry Book Reviews by Diane Lockward. You can browse through some of the reviews being published to get a feel […]

NO FEE Submission call + interview – Former People Journal, DEADLINE: Year-round

Former People is an international online literary and art journal publishing continuously throughout the year. They are open for submissions of poetry, flash fiction, non-fiction, interviews, reviews, multimedia, and artwork. I wanted to know more about how and why this journal began, so I asked co-founder and Managing […]

My poem "In my mother's mouth" in The Rumpus + NO FEE call for their ENOUGH series, DEADLINE: May 31, 2019

I’m very humbled to have my poem “In my mother’s mouth” published in The Rumpus for their ENOUGH series. Make sure not to miss the other stunning work in this week’s post–poems by Kathleen Hellen and Elana Lev Friedland. ENOUGH is a Rumpus series devoted to creating a […]

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