Today’s poem is Six Hours Lost, Land Between the Lakes by Kathleen Driskell.

Introducing a new program at Belle Point Press

This course combines generative writing and discussion using a book in common. Raye Hendrix’s poetry collection What Good Is Heaven will be our model for writing and reading poems that hurt us and hea...

The president’s latest criticism of museums is a thinly veiled attempt to erase Black history.

Hub City Press, the publishing arm of the Hub City Writers Project, publishes books of literary fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction, regional nonfiction, nature, and art. We are seeking new and extra...

Adult Contests SUBMISSIONS OPEN NOW! DEADLINE: JULY 31, 2025. We have two contests adults are eligble for. Grand Prix Poetry Contest: Open to all U.S. poets aged 18 and above, this contest welcomes…

malformed calves      foaming at the mouth      a creek that bubbles

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“Writing Place: A generative poetry class” welcomes all levels of poets/writers who want to explore how setting, context, memory, and lived experiences can be communicated in poems. We’ll study model ...

The prose poem as we know it today was “invented” as a type of subversive activity: to escape the rules of strict meter and rhyme that defined most poetry in […]

I do not know whether it is morning         or mourning

SOUTHERN HUMANITIES REVIEW

The Makery ONLINE WRITING STUDIO Offering three-week intensive online writing courses. The Makery at Hindman Settlement School is an online studio designed to nurture your imagination in a neighborly, supportive community.  Inside The Makery, you’ll find opportunities to study with Guggenheim Fellows, Yale’s Younger Poets, Poets Laureate, Weatherford and Chaffin Award recipients, acclaimed editors, intrepid … The Makery Read More »

That you will leave, like all / things leave, that you have left,

The narrow stall recedes like Van Gogh’s room

By Donna Vorreyer

nor admire the apples that blossom / during a February heat wave