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hungermtn.org

Hunger Mountain is the VCFA Journal of the Arts

bodyliterature.com

Johanna Strobel is an interdisciplinary artist, working across installation, sculpture, painting, video and VR.

sundressblog.com

This selection, chosen by Guest Editor Claudia Santos, is from Maybe the Body by Asa Drake (Tin House 2026). To Someone Who’s Heard, I Love You, Too Many Times Your friend explains having been in a roomfilled with other people who, like you and your friend,collect words from parents. The words[                                                                ]don’t come … Continue reading The Wardrobe’s Best Dressed: Maybe the Body by Asa Drake →

chillsubs.com

Fall in love with poetry. Send us your weird, wild & wonderful poems & book reviews. As Leonard Cohen said, “Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash."

poetryfoundation.org

Poems, readings, poetry news and the entire 110-year archive of POETRY magazine.

winningwriters.com

find the best free literary contests and avoid bad ones. we sponsor the free wergle flomp humor poetry contest, the north street book prize, the tom howard/margaret reid poetry contest, and the tom howard/john h. reid fiction & essay contest.

literary-arts.org

Literary Arts was entrusted by Ursula K. Le Guin and her family to direct the development and management of this program and to undertake the upgrades necessary to both preserve this historic family home and transform it into a working space.

diodepoetry.com

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frontierpoetry.com

2025 Misfit Poems Prize This contest is now closed. Thank you to all who shared your misfits! March 3 to May 4, 2025 WINNER JH Grimes “Appalachian Conjure” JH Grimes is a trans Appalachian poet based between Virginia and Minneapolis.…

rattle.com

Elizabeth Johnston Ambrose « Rattle Chapbook Prize Winner » How does a daughter emerge whole from an upbringing saturated with religious fundamentalism? And if not whole, how does she piece together some kind of coherent self out of fragmented half-truths? The eighteen narrative poems in Imago, Dei bear witness to the emotional and psychological weight amassed from a girlhood fraught with vexed messages about what it means to be “good.” Narrated in third-person, lyric vignettes, these are poems about a daughter’s desire to be the son her well-meaning, but deeply damaged father thinks he needs; about an adolescent world filled with cute boys, predatory church leaders, Lakes of Fire, and broken girls who beg to be reborn; about the bad-girl specters of Eve, Jezebel, and Delilah that haunt her into adulthood and wreak havoc on her intimate relationships; about dirty dancing, Bible study, Lacanian theory, and crying after sex; and about what happens when a recovering evangelical becomes a mother to her own daughters.   From the Author I grew up in the Church, and by that I mean in a fundamentalist, evangelical home where we spent Sunday dinners debating things like the meaning of the Greek word “Baptismo,” whether it meant you had to be fully immersed or whether a sprinkling was sufficient to keep you from the gates of hell. Because Jesus was “the word,” and because I spent so much of my youth analyzing the “good word,” it’s fitting that I wound up pursuing a degree in English and becoming a writer. Ironically, the close-reading skills the church taught me was what ultimately undid my faith. Thank God.​   Sample Poems • “Her Father Calls to Explain …” in Rattle (online)   Reviews “With a comma that interrupts a Latin phrase etched in Christian history, Elizabeth Johnston Abrose’s Imago, Dei offers disjunction to give worn tropes new context. This deliberate juxtaposition rejuvenates the flat and