Happy New Year and big thanks to such an incredible online community of poets, writers, and supporters! I started actively posting and promoting this poetry blog in October 2014, and have seen a constant increase in traffic, likes, and followers. I've met some amazing and talented people along […]
A big thank you to Diane Lockward for posting all this incredible information and help for poetry manuscript ordering and organization! Her post includes her own suggestions for how to avoid pitfalls with your first manuscript and links to several excellent articles. “Many poets, especially those working on […]
Excited to be participating in this list of amazing poetry bloggers! Thanks to Donna Vorreyer and Kelli Russell Agodon for putting this together.
UPDATED 12/2/2019 The individual listings below are the chapbook publishers I found which do not charge submission fees, reading fees, or contest fees. Several are currently open or always open, which I’ve noted below. Many chapbooks are published via contests and do typically require a fee from $10 […]
Poets, support these presses, support these voices…
Cotton Xenomorph is a quarterly online journal that publishes poetry, fiction, and visual art. They publish accepted pieces every few days on their site and then publish a compilation of all the work in a quarterly PDF issue. Their tagline is “No Creeps” and while they support a social […]
My poem “Resurrection Party” is a poem of recovery. It’s so important to me that this personal poem is out in the world. Many of you who know me know that two years ago my son (21 at the time) was in a horrible accident in which he was […]
My poem “Resurrection Party” is a poem of recovery. It’s so important to me that this personal poem is out in the world. Many of you who know me know that two years ago my son (21 at the time) was in a horrible accident in which he was […]
Erica Goss recently told me about a new poetry email newsletter she’s starting for 2018, so of course, I needed to know more! See my interview with Goss along with how to sign up for the newsletter below. Erica Goss served as Poet Laureate of Los Gatos, CA from […]
Ramingo's Porch is a new quarterly print journal of poetry, prose, and art. It is “a collaboration between Mendes Biondo (RamingoBlog), Catfish McDaris (EveryDamnWhere), and Marc Pietrzykowski (Pski'sPorch), a new journal of poetry, prose, drama, non-fiction, art, and whatever else we find worthwhile.” Their first issue just came out […]
