We’ve already received some strong submissions for our upcoming collection Coping Mechanisms, but we know September is a busy month — for us too! To give everyone a little more breathing …

There was a manNamed Uncle Sam.He bucked a kingAnd claimed the land.Oversaw his family… Brotherhood of manTurned as Uncle SamSaw red for to sing,Trails of tears across the land.Educating the …

My fellow Americans… The ones who would remind us of the Boston Massacre,and Washington’s winter soldiers,Who celebrate independence,Bucking despots ever bolder. Then light the fuse and swim …

Submissions Are Open! Theme: Coping MechanismsSubmission Deadline: Monday, September 15, 2025Publication Date: Winter 2025 Our first publication, Record of Dissent: Poems of Protest in an Authorita…

Understory is a full-color print anthology created in the early months after Hurricane Helene devastated our region in Western North Carolina and beyond. $2 from every print copy sold goes directly to...

Submissions Are Open! The Chaos Section Poetry Project is now accepting poems for our next collection.Theme: Coping MechanismsDeadline: Monday, September 15, 2025Publication: Winter …

A free digital chapbook featuring 44 poems of protest, resilience, and rising authoritarianism in the Trump era—published by The Chaos Section Poetry Project.

Submissions Are Open! Theme: Coping MechanismsSubmission Deadline: Monday, September 15, 2025Publication Date: Winter 2025 Our first publication, Record of Dissent: Poems of Protest in an Authorita…

I am delighted to report that two of my poems have been published today. Hope posted to the revived Whispers and Echoes. Thanks, Sammi! I adapted the first line, A little bird slammed into my window, mistaking it for the sky, as a Fraiku earlier this year. And I'm only an Imagist when I can't come up with a metaphor…

Poems of Protest in an Authoritarian Age