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We had the wonderful opportunity to interview CAConrad, our Guest Judge for the 2025 Queer Poetry Prize. Read more about their inspirations, writing process, and insights on queer poetry! buff.ly/0YvnIF4

today's #poem is "pantoum in which my body becomes a locked door" by Kay Kassirer "I become the client as I hand over a few hundreds to the jaw specialist / recognizing the irony of how quickly this money comes and goes” buff.ly/udNjt1M

today's #poem is "One-Armed Prayer" by Vedran Husić "grasping claws of tensile yellow / below skeleton blues whose delicate / tracery wafts into thin witnessed air—” buff.ly/V8xsfto

Closing soon: Our 2025 Queer Poetry Prize! Guest Judge CAConrad will choose three winning poems. The first place winner will receive $3,000 + publication. Deadline: April 6, 2025, 11:59 PM Pacific Learn more: palettepoetry.com/queer-poetry-p…

today's #poem is "A very accurate and complete profile of my grandmother" by Phillip Haddix "That Door – Don’t Shut. / Just Cause – Your Birds Flew. / This Still – Our Home.” buff.ly/0Horai5

🌈❣️Final day to submit to our 2025 Queer Poetry Prize! ❣️🌈 These poems could explore sexuality, gender, or form. Guest Judge CAConrad will choose three winning poems. Deadline: April 6, 2025, 11:59 PM Pacific Learn more: palettepoetry.com/queer-poetry-p…

Submissions for our 2025 Queer Poetry Prize are closed! Thank you for trusting us with your explorations of identity, form, and love. Submitters will be notified of their submission status eight to twelve weeks after the contest closing date. ❤️

today's #poem is "Jeans of the Disappeared Man" by Connor Weirich "the baby could have a family name, but spoken aloud, / he would be entirely American. John Paul, precious John Paul.” buff.ly/vxr1Yc2

today's #poem is "Cover Letter" by Leanna Petronella "Satisfied bodies bloom green. / I othered art, / marketing my past.” buff.ly/2GUn3sj

New deadlines, new contests, and new opportunities for your work to find its audience! Here is a roundup of ten submission opportunities with deadlines in April or May, including Academy of American Poets, Zoetic Press, Atlanta Review, and more. buff.ly/kk1xeDB

today's #poem is "A church is any 2 who meet with me" by Ramsey Tawfick "and only men can brush their hands across the / cages by the altar as the schoolchildren’s feet are clanking on the marble ceiling” buff.ly/0Hq9YFd

We are so excited to announce our winners for the 2024-25 Previously Published Poem Prize! You can read the winning poems and see who the finalists are here: buff.ly/2ryXyjd

Our second runner-up for the 2024-25 Previously Published Poem Prize is Garnet Juniper Bennet for their poem "anticipating flame" "If the nest comes under attack, let me / lose a feather or two in defense of what I know is true:" buff.ly/4P59hFB

Our first runner-up for the 2024-25 Previously Published Poem Prize is Eli Karren for his poem “Portrait of a Small Town Where the Flower Shop has Committed Suicide” "Our neighborhood drowns // in the violet hue of summer stolen, while evening arrives" buff.ly/kRWFHKO

Ollie Schminkey is the winner of our 2024-25 Previously Published Poem Prize for their brilliant poem, "My Father" "the wound across his back becomes / a mouth wide open, filled with blood, and me, / his child standing next to the body." buff.ly/yjqupgk

today's #poem is "Erosion" by Megan Spring "I composed beautiful desperate letters / And you a phrase // Damn you,” buff.ly/XM0snhE

today's #poem is "Translation Errors" by Bella Zhou “December’s flint and mudrust eats the shadows of long-maned mountains, lifting the latch of your body from its cheap blue seat.” buff.ly/hbjwQQ1