Writing Magazine

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There’s still – just – time to enter The London Magazine Poetry Prize 2020 The London Magazine is the UK’s oldest literary journal, and through its Poetry Prize looks for new voices to publish. The first prize is £500 and there are second and third p

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

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

Poets & Writers

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Edited by Elizabeth J. Coleman, Here: Poems for the Planet (Copper Canyon Press, April) features poems that address climate change and environmental degradation along with a guide to environmental activism written by the Union of Concerned Scientists

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,

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 There is a £500 first prize in the competition for spiritual or broadly religious poems Enter original, unpublished poems up to forty lines.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

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

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.

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

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.

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

BBC Countryfile Magazine

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As the world went into lockdown earlier this year, the Centre for Place Writing invited some of the world’s most acclaimed thinkers, writers and artists, alongside emergent new voices, to examine what ‘place’ meant to them. Embracing poetry, essay, w

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

Homes & Antiques

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For two years this was the home of a prolific 19th-century Romantic poet. Today, it’s a museum. The darling of English literature is said to have penned one of his odes beneath a plum tree in the garden. He fell in love with the girl next door and be

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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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

Writing Magazine

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Emily Berry edits The Poetry Review quarterly. Poems, reviews and features are needed. Payment is £50+ per poem. Details: The Poetry Society, 22 Betterton Street, London NC2H 9BX; tel: 020 7420 9880; email: poetryreview@poetrysociety.org.uk Adam Stow

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 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

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

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

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

Poets & Writers

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In his third poetry collection, As One Fire Consumes Another, forthcoming from Orison Books in April, John Sibley Williams confronts the violent side of American history and its effect on our notions of self, fatherhood, and citizenship. “The poems s

NPR

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Poet and critic Craig Morgan Teicher presents his annual roundup of the poetry he's looking forward to. This year, he's showcasing a group of poets who he says are holding the darkness at bay.

Literary Hub

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Stanley Plumly, poet and Professor of English at the University of Maryland, died on Thursday, April 11, 2019 of multiple myeloma at the age of 79. He was the author of ten poetry collections, including Old Heart (2007), winner of the Los Angeles Tim

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

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