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UPCOMING POETRY READINGS/WORKSHOPS
January 11 @ 7pm (Tuesday) – Riverwood Poetry Series @ Real Art Ways will host three of Connecticut’s Asian American poets, Aaron Caycedo-Kimura, Srini Mandavilli, and Debora Kuan, as they read from their current and forthcoming books of poetry. The readings on Zoom will be followed by discussion and a time for questions and answers. Registration is required, but the event is free of charge and open to everyone. An open mic will follow. One or two poems may be read. Register for the Zoom here, and register for the open mic at RiverwoodPoetry@yahoo.com. January 15 @ 5pm (Saturday) – Lit Balm: An Interactive Livestream Reading Series, hosted by Marc Vincenz, Cassandra Atherton and Jonathan Penton. The event this month is a special feature on the life and work of Michael Anania, and will feature Robert Archambeau, Reginald Gibbons, Nathaniel MacKay, John Mathias, CS Gyscome, Jeffrey Allen, Lea Graham, and Mary Biddinger. January 26 @ 6pm (Wednesday) – Ann Cefola is guest hosting John McMullen’s monthly Zoom poetry workshop sponsored by the John C Hart Memorial Library. John facilitated a delightful conversation between NEA recipient Kerrin McCadden and Ann Cefola a while back. While McCadden is reading at the Hudson Valley Writers Center the same evening, you can stop by the workshop first. Zoom link January 26 @ 7-8:30pm – Hudson Valley Writers Center presents: An Evening with Kerrin McCadden, Angela Narciso Torres and Jennifer Sperry Steinorth (via Zoom). 3 award-winning poets read from their collections. Event is free, although donations are welcome. February 4 @ 2pm (Friday) – Poetry Lit! featuring John Bolland and Mandy Haggith. Poetry Lit! features international poets and readers. There will be an open mic following featured poets. Free to attend online, but registration required for the Zoom link. PLACES TO SUBMIT YOUR POETRY Publisher: Magma 2021/22 Poetry Competition Deadline: January 14, 2022 Two competitions open to submissions of multiple poems, one up to 10 lines (Editors’ Prize), and one 11-50 lines (Judge’s Prize). First prize for the Judge’s and Editors’ Prize is £1000, second prize £300 and third prize £150. The six prize-winning poems will be published in Magma and there will also be 5 special mentions for the Judge’s Prize and for the Editors’ Prize. Winning and commended poets will be invited to read their poems at a Magma Competition Event in Spring 2022. The entry fees are £5 for the first poem, £4 for the second and £3.50 for the third and each subsequent poem. Magma magazine subscribers benefit from reduced fees. Publisher: 7th Annual Stephen A. DiBiase Poetry Contest Deadline: January 15, 2021 There is a one poem limit. The poem must be in English. Otherwise, there are no limitations or restrictions. They welcome submissions from all ages and all countries. $500 for first place, $400 for second, $300 for third, $200 for fourth and additional cash awards for honorable mentions. No entry fee. Publisher: OpenDoor Magazine Deadline: January 15, 2022 (theme: adoration), February 15, 2022 (theme: footsteps) Submit as many poems as you’d like per theme per issue. Must sign up to their (free) subscription service in order to submit to their magazine. Might only respond if accepted. Publisher: The Nutmeg Poetry Award Deadline: January 31, 2022 Run by the Connecticut Poetry Society, a contest open only to Connecticut poets. Submit up to 3 unpublished poems up to 80 lines in length per poem. Blind read. Simultaneous submissions okay. No entry fee for CPS members, $10 for non-members. 1st prize: $200, 2nd prize: $100, 3rd prize: $50. Publisher: The Big Moose Prize by Black Lawrence Press Deadline: January 31, 2022 The Big Moose Prize is for an unpublished novel. The prize is open to new, emerging, and established writers. The winner of this contest will receive book publication, a $1,000 cash award, and ten copies of the book. Prizes will be awarded on publication. The Big Moose Prize is open to traditional novels as well as novels-in-stories, novels-in-poems, and other hybrid forms that contain within them the spirit of a novel. Entry fee of $27. Blind read. 90-1000 pages in length. Publisher: Sentinel Literary Quarterly Poetry Competition Deadline: January 31, 2022 This competition is for original, previously unpublished poems in English language, on any subject, in any style up to 50 lines long. You may also enter a visual poem if the image will fit into a single page. Poems posted on members-only non-public groups for review/critique as part of the creative process are not deemed to have been previously published. Poets of all ages, gender or nationality living in any part of the world are eligible to enter. Prizes: £250 (1st), £125 (2nd), £75 (3rd), £30 x 3 (High Commendation), £20 x 3 (Commendation), £10 x 3 (Special Mentions). Fees: £5/1, £8/2, £10/3, £12/4, £14/5, £16/7, £22/10). All placed poems will receive first publication in Sentinel Literary Quarterly Magazine (Online and Print) Publisher: Kent & Sussex Poetry Society Open Poetry Competition, 2022 Deadline: January 31, 2022 Submit 1 or more poems of no longer than 40 lines. Blind read. Entry fee: £5 per poem or £4 each for 3 or more poems. As in previous years, we offer seven prizes: 1st Prize: £1000, 2nd Prize: £300, 3rd Prize: £100, 4th Prize: 4 x £50. Winners will be published and also invited to read their poems at the poetry meeting in April. Publisher: Heartland Society of Women Writers Deadline: February 1, 2022 They consider work from all who identify as women, with bonus points for writers who have a connection to the Heartland. Send 1 poem of no more than 50 lines. Simultaneous submissions okay. No payment, no submission fee. Publisher: Barely South Review Deadline: February 1, 2022 Submit up to 5 poems, each poem separately – each poem will be considered individually. Simultaneous submissions okay. No payment, no fee. Publisher: The Village of Great Neck Plaza 12th Annual poetry Contest Deadline: February 1, 2022 (postmarked) Open to residents from Long Island, all boroughs of NYC, plus NJ and CT. Entries may be on any subject, in any style, must have a title, and must not exceed more than 30 lines per poem. Send 2 copies of each poem on 8½ x 11 papers, one poem per page, with name, address, and phone number at the bottom of one copy only. A cover sheet listing the poet's name, address, phone number and email address, and title of each poem, must be included as well. Applicants may send up to 3 unpublished poems, along with a $15 entry fee payable by check or money order to “Long Island Traditions.” Mail submissions to: Village Hall, 2 Gussack Plaza, P.O. Box 440, Great Neck, NY 11022-0440 with "Poetry Contest" indicated on the left front of envelope. An Awards Reading Day will take place on Zoom on Sunday, April 3rd at 12pm. 1st prize: $150 + 20-minute reading at Awards Reading Day, 2nd prize: $75 & 10 minutes, 3rd prize: $50 & 5 minutes, & 2 Honorable Mentions will be invited to read their winning poems.
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UPCOMING POETRY READINGS/WORKSHOPS
December 11 @ 2-3pm (Saturday, today) – Asian American Poets and Community Dialogue with Srinivas Mandavilli, author of Gods In The Foyer, a collection of poems, and his work has appeared in CT River Review, Caduceus, Long River Run, Theodate, JAMA, Freshwater, Drunken Boat, and SN Review. Free to attend, but registration required. December 12 @ 2-3:30pm (Sunday) – The International Women’s Writing Guild presents All Voices Open Mic with featured poet Jerrice Baptiste. Jerrice J. Baptiste is a native of Haiti, and has published eight books, and her poetry has also been published in the Grammy Award-winning album Many Hands Family Music for Haiti. Free to attend online, but registration required, both for listening to the featured guest and/or for the open mic afterwards. December 14 @ 7pm (Tuesday) - Riverwood Poetry Series @ Real Art Ways will host a reading by Jennifer Jean from her poetry collection Object Lesson, which explores the commercial sex trade of human trafficking, stripping, porn, and other methods of exploitation. A Q&A will follow, as well as an open mic. Free to attend online, but registration required. December 15 @ 7:15-9:15pm (Wednesday) – The Chicago Poetry Center presents Blue Hour, a free monthly online reading series and generative writing workshop featuring Elana Bell and Rich Villar, facilitated by Marty McConnell. Reading from 7:15-8:15pm, workshop from 8:15-9:15pm. Workshop will include discussion and prompt writing. Free to attend online, but registration required. December 16 @ 7-8pm (Thursday) – The Art of Poetry Webcast with James Morehead, poet laureate of Dublin, CA. Free to attend, registration required. Morehead’s poem “tethered” was transformed into an award-winning hand drawn animated short film. Free to attend online, but registration required. December 16 @ 7-9:30pm (Thursday) – Wintonbury Poetry Series presents “Two Poet Laureates” – Barb Jennes and Rhonda Ward, presented by Tom Nicotera. Open mic follows the readings by the featured poets. Free to attend online, registration required. January 7 @ 2-4pm (Friday) – Poetry Lit! featuring Claudia Toutoungi and David Bleiman. Poetry Lit! features international poets and readers. There will be an open mic following featured poets. Free to attend online, but registration required. PLACES TO SUBMIT YOUR POETRY Publisher: table//FEAST Literary Magazine Deadline: December 15, 2021 Running a special contest called “sweettooth/HONEY” for micro poems. Sub up to 3 micro poems of any theme. Simultaneous submissions okay. Free to enter, $40 prize for winner. Publisher: Judith Wright Poetry Prize Deadline: December 20, 2021 Established in 2007 and supported by the Malcolm Robertson Foundation, the Overland Judith Wright Poetry Prize for New and Emerging Poets seeks outstanding poetry by writers who have published no more than one collection of poems under their own name (i.e. writers who’ve had zero collections published, or one solo collection published). It remains one of the richest prizes for emerging poets, and is open to poets anywhere in the world. The major prize is $6000, with a second prize of $2000 and a third prize of $1000. All three winners will be published in Overland’s Autumn 2022 issue. Entry fee: $12 for subscribers and $20 for non-subscribers. Publisher: Many Nice Donkeys Deadline: December 31, 2021 Send up to 5 poems of no more than 8 pages total. Blind read, simultaneous submissions welcome. No reading fee, no payment. Publisher: Society of Classical Poets 2022 Poetry Competition Deadline: December 31, 2021 Submit 1-3 poems on any topic, with all poems together being 108 lines or less. Previously published poems okay, as long as they were published in 2021. Rhyme and other traditional techniques are encouraged, but not required. Simultaneous submissions okay. Submission fee: $20. First prize: $2k plus publication. Also includes a $200 high school prize and $100 translation prize. Publisher: Curious Curls Publishing Deadline: No deadline They accept manuscripts for all creative works, but are most interested in full-length fiction and poetry projects. Novels, collections, and chapbooks are some of the most common submissions. Minimum length 40 pages. Simultaneous submissions okay. No fee to submit, unspecified payment of a “small base award and fair percentage of sales.” Publisher: Bullshit Lit! Deadline: No deadline They want to see the work you haven't sent to other lit mags because you know it's just not working. Your shitty prose, messed-up line breaks, abandoned sketches, nonsensical plots, and so on. Everybody else wants your best—they want your worst. They especially like it when shit gets weird. Published twice a week. No reading fee, no payment. UPCOMING POETRY READINGS/WORKSHOPS
November 13 @ 6-10pm (Saturday, today) – Rock the Red Fashion Show & Poetry Slam, located at Holiday Inn, 2070 Main Street, Bridgeport. Bringing awareness to HIV/AIDS. Free to attend. November 14 @ 5pm (Sunday) – Poetry Reading with Margaret Gibson, Poet Laureate of Connecticut at the Stonington Free Library, 20 High Street, Stonington. November 14 @ 7-8pm (Sunday) – Speculative Sundays Poetry Reading Series with Mary Soon Lee. Her two latest books are from opposite ends of the poetry spectrum: Elemental Haiku, containing haiku for the periodic, and The Sign of the Dragon, an epic fantasy with Chinese elements. Free to attend online, but registration required for Zoom link. November 18 @ 7-9:30pm (Thursday) - "Two Poets from Syracuse" reading, featuring Linda Griggs and Martin Willits. Open Mic follows the featured poets. Sign up during registration or email Tom Nicotera (below). Upon registering your email for this program, you will receive the Zoom link to join. All participants will start with video off and sound muted. No computer/internet at home? Call the Library for the phone number, meeting ID & password and join us over the phone. Tom Nicotera - tnicotera@libraryconnection.info or (860) 243-9721 November 20 @ 7pm (Saturday) – Moonstone Poetry Virtual Reading New Voices, featuring emerging poets from Philadelphia under the age of 25. Free reading online, registration required for Zoom link. November 30 @ 8pm (Tuesday) - Black Lawrence Press presents Anna Suton, Brian Simoneau, and Rob Carney for a reading and Q&A. If you miss it, you can catch it on their YouTube Channel. Free to attend online, registration required to get Zoom link. December 2 @ 7pm (Thursday) – Pitt Poetry Series presents a nature poetry reading by Maxine Scates and Kasey Jueds. Free to attend online, registration required to get Zoom link. December 5 @ 3pm (Sunday) - Poetry Rocks, with featured readers Tom Nicotera, Sitara Gnanaguru, and an award-winning student poet (tbd) from Rockville High School, at Arts Center East, 709 Hartford Turnpike, Vernon. An open mic will follow featured readers. Since the reading will be in-person, masks are required regardless of vaccination status. For more information, email Pegi Deitz Shea at pegideitzshea@aol.com. PLACES TO SUBMIT YOUR POETRY Publisher: Bards Against Hunger Deadline: November 15, 2021 An anthology that helps the hungry – at each poetry reading event, donations of food go to local food banks. Send up to 3 poems of 100 lines or less. Poems of all styles and genres will be considered. Open to poets in CT, MA, and RI. Publisher: levatio Deadline: November 20, 2021 Theme: serenity. Submit 2-3 poems between 10-300 words. Free to submit, but can ask for editor’s feedback for $3. The top piece in each category published will receive an honorarium. Publisher: Marathon Literary Review Deadline: November 30, 2021 Submit up to 3 poems of no more than 8 pages. No fee, no payment. Publisher: 2021 Shooter Poetry Competition Deadline: November 28, 2021 (UK time) Submit poems of any theme or style up to 100 lines long. Blind read. £3.50 entry fee for 1 poem, £8 for 3 poems. Winner will be announced in December, and will receive £150, runner-up £50. Both will be published by Shooter and promoted online. Publisher: Mslexia Poetry Competition Deadline: December 6, 2021 Submit up to 3 poems per entry fee of £10. Enter unpublished poems of any length, on any subject. The prizes are as follows: 1st prize, £2,000; 2nd prize, £500; and 3rd, £250. They also have an Unpublished Poet Prize, with the winner receiving £250. 16 additional finalists will be awarded £25 each. All winners and finalists will be published in the March 2022 edition of Mslexia. Publisher: Discretionary Love Deadline: Open deadline Submit 3-5 poems of no more than 100 lines each. Theme: love. Publishing every week. Simultaneous submissions okay. No fee, no payment. Publisher: Talk Vomit Deadline: Open deadline Poems about honest experiences, including relationships, mental health, self-improvement, pop culture, and cultural criticism. All genres accepted, including prose poetry, but less likely to accept traditional poetic forms. $5 payment upon publication. UPCOMING POETRY READINGS/WORKSHOPS
October 10 @ 2pm (Sunday) – Poetry reading by selected poets from the anthology Waking Up to the Earth: Connecticut Poets Writing in a Time of Global Climate Crisis, including Haddam Poet Laureate Lorraine Reiss and Connecticut poet laureate Margaret Gibson. The reading will take place at Haddam Meadows State Park. Chairs provided or feel free to bring your own. Books available for sale, with a portion of the proceeds benefitting the Brainerd Memorial Library in Haddam. Free, no registration required. October 12 @ 7pm (Tuesday) - Join Riverwood Poetry Series @ Real Art Ways for a reading with John Surowiecki on Zoom. Help him launch his new book of poetry, Burger King of the Dead, and read new work from his upcoming book, The Place of the Solitaires: Poems with Titles by Wallace Stevens. Free to attend, but registration is required. An open mic will follow, which you can sign up for by emailing RiverwoodPoetry@Yahoo.com. October 13 @ 7-8:30pm (Wednesday) – Poet Shanta Lee Gander presents the reading and discussion: Trying to Speak Woman in Woke Tongues: Black Girlhood and Black Womanhood. This free event is both in person at Trinity College at 300 Summit Street, Hartford (Terrace Rooms, Mather Hall, 2nd floor) and also available to Zoom. October 16 @ 2-3pm (Saturday) – The Asian and Asian American Studies Institute at UConn and the Connecticut Historical Society, along with Make Us Visible CT, is featuring Connecticut’s Asian American poets and exploring personal stories and local histories. Guest speaker is poet laureate of Wallingford, Debora Kuan. Free to attend at the Connecticut Historical Society, 1 Elizabeth Street in Hartford, but advanced registration required. October 24 @ 9pm (Sunday) – Chax Books presents a reading by one of the most famous Chinese contemporary poets, Yan An, with translators Chen Du & Xisheng Chen, & a reading by Norman Fischer. Free to attend online, but registration required. November 6 @ 3pm (Saturday) – The 26th Annual Wallace Stevens Birthday Bash, with featured guest speaker Edward Hirsch. Free to attend online; RSVP to Jim Finnegan: JforJames@aol.com and he will send you the Zoom link and password prior to the event. The speaker will be discussing “Sunday Morning” by Wallace Stevens. November 9 @ 6:30-7:30pm (Tuesday) – Poets Reading Poetry, an online event hosted by the East Hartford Public Library, with featured poets Marilyn Johnston, Jane Schneeloch, John Stanizzi and Elizabeth Thomas. Part of the event will include an open mic. For more information, contact Adult Services Librarian Rolande Duprey by calling (860) 290-4330 or by emailing rduprey@easthartfordct.gov. For ages 12+. Free, but registration required. PLACES TO SUBMIT YOUR POETRY Publisher: Pidgeonholes Deadline: October 10, 2021 Send up to 5 poems no longer than 50 lines each, in a single document. They'll consider anything from unrhymed couplets to haibun to prose poems. Invented and experimental forms are encouraged. Free to submit, no payment. Publisher: Hotel Deadline: October 31, 2021 (UK time) Send up to 4 pages of poems. Specifically say NO simultaneous submissions. Free to submit, no payment. Publisher: New Feathers Anthology Deadline: November 1, 2021 Accept submissions of 1-5 poems. Simultaneous submissions okay. Accepted authors will be published both online and in print. Free to submit, no payment. Publisher: Vast Chasm Deadline: None They publish bold work that explores the expansive human experience. Free to submit; submit 1 poem at a time. Simultaneous submission okay. Payment on publication: $50. Publisher: The Rail Deadline: None They are currently accepting poetry submissions that 'doesn't just get your gears turning— but shifts them entirely.' Poetry shorter than 90 lines. Free to submit, no payment. Publisher: Press Pause Deadline: None Hyped as “a literary magazine with zero social media presence,” they’re accept submissions for their 6th volume, due out in March 2022. Send up to 10 poems at a time. Open to young writers 18 and under, in addition to 18+. Free to submit, no payment. Publisher: Gold Soundz Deadline: None An independent magazine based in Nashville, they accept up to 5 poems at a time from submitters. Looking for submissions for Issue 11, they accept typed or handwritten pieces. Free to submit, no payment. UPCOMING POETRY READINGS/WORKSHOPS
September 10-12 @ various times (Friday-Sunday) - Hill-Stead’s Sunken Garden Poetry Festival celebrates poets laureate, Pulitzer Prize winners, and prestigious award recipients, including this year Jenny Xie (reading and music), Will Cordeiro (poetry workshop), Martin Espada (reading), David Leff (poetry workshop), and Margaret Gibson (workshop, reading, and music). Weekend pass: $45, individual tickets between $10-$25 per event. The Festival takes place on the West Lawn, where attendees will be properly socially distanced. Bring a blanket, chairs, and a picnic. Seating is limited and advance purchase of admission is strongly encouraged. Don’t fret if you cannot be there in person. You can tune in from the comfort of your home with a Livestream presentation as it happens. September 14 @ 6pm (Tuesday) – A trio of poets - Joan Kwon Glass (recent winner of the Diode Editions Book Contest), James Diaz (poetry editor of Anti-Heroin Chic), and B. Fulton Jennes (poet laureate of Ridgefield) - will share poems addressing the topics of depression, addiction, suicide, and the hope of recovery at the Keeler Tavern Museum & History Center gardens, 152 Main Street in Ridgefield (garden capacity is 60 guests – rain venue is the Ridgefield Guild of Artists at 34 Halpin Lane). For those unable to attend in person, the reading will be live-streamed on the Ridgefield Poet Laureate Facebook page. Free to attend. September 17-18 @ 10am-4pm each day (Friday-Saturday) - Hartford's L.I.T. sponsors the Hartford Book Festival. This event will take place in person at the Public Library at 500 Main Street in downtown Hartford. It will showcase several local authors, contain workshops, literary discussions and readings, a panel discussion where writers and publishers meet, panel discussion on the relevance of Black Lit and intentional children’s lit, storytellers, local author highlights, featured poets, bookstore highlights, and literary intellectuals, as well as a special poetry writing workshop with the Poet Laureate Fredrick Douglass Knowles. Free to attend, but registration required. September 17-26 @ various times (Friday-Sunday) – 2021 National Book Festival: Open a Book, Open the World. A 10-day literary festival, it has a wide variety of poetry events and authors, including US poet laureate Joy Harjo. There are also celebrated fiction and nonfiction authors such as Kazuo Ishiguro and Roxane Gay, and celebrities such as LeVar Burton and Michael J. Fox. Most events are free and online, with a couple of ticketed events in person. September 20-26 @ various times (Monday-Sunday) – The Tell It Slant Poetry Festival is a free multi-day event that celebrates the poetic legacy of Emily Dickinson and the contemporary creativity of Western Massachusetts and beyond. This year’s Festival will be held remotely, and will take place on the Cadence platform. Free admission, donations welcome. September 26 @ 2-4pm (Sunday) – Poetry Summer 2021 Series at Roseland Park, 205 Roseland Park Road in Woodstock, CT, in the outdoor amphitheater. This series is free to the public and will be held from 2-4 p.m. These readings are for people ages 14 and up. Wine will be served. Folding chairs or camp chairs are recommended for a more comfortable time. Besides featured readers there will be an open mic segment at each event as time allows. Covid guidelines will be met. There are 4 reading dates over the summer, and some of the summer’s featured poets will include Paul Richmond, Candace Curran, Karen Warinsky, Paul Rabinowitz, T’Challa Williams, Christine Kalafus, Brian Sneeden, Robert Eugene Perry, Dina Stander, Gerald Yelle, David Wyman, Janine Roberts, and Jayce Porter. Organized by Mrs. Warinsky, who can be reached at karen.warinsky@gmail.com. September 26 @ 3pm (Sunday) – Poetry Rocks will feature José B. Gonzalez and Pat Hale in person at Arts Center East, 709 Hartford Turnpike in Vernon. Student poets are Kaylin Mayer and Cali Miville. There will be an open mic for the first 10 poets to register by emailing pegideitzshea@aol.com. Masks may be required. Suggested donation of $5. September 28 @ 5-8pm (Saturday) – An evening with Billy Collins, former U.S. poet laureate, named “the most popular poet in America” by the New York Times. The evening begins with cocktails and generous hors d’oeuvres inside American Mural Project’s mural building at 90 Whiting Street in Winsted, CT, surrounded by the largest indoor collaborative artwork in the world. Then Billy Collins takes the stage to delight Gala attendees with his conversational, witty poems. The evening concludes with a dessert reception. Tickets $175-$300. PLACES TO SUBMIT YOUR POETRY Publisher: Oxford Brookes International Poetry Competition Deadline: September 20, 2021 (UK time – deadline at 6pm ET) The Oxford Brookes Poetry Centre's International Poetry Competition celebrates the power of poetry across the world! The winners of each category will receive £1000 and both runners up £200. The competition entrance fee is £5 for each of your first three entries and then £4 for every subsequent poem. Entrants may submit a maximum of ten poems. Publisher: Beechmore Books Writing Competition Deadline: September 25, 2021 (UK time – deadline at 6pm ET) Everyone's perspectives have all been altered this year. Priorities have been re-orientated, the importance of connection and community has been highlighted like never before and many people’s world views have shifted, choosing to slow down, and re-evaluate what’s important in life. The theme for the contest is “perspective.” You can submit your writing in the form of fiction, non-fiction or poetry. 1st Place £200 + One Years Supply of Beechmore Journals (12 Books) and 2nd Place £100 + Six Months Supply of Beechmore Journals (6 Books). Winner announced October 1st. Publisher: Troubadour International Poetry Prize 2021 Deadline: September 27, 2021 (UK time – deadline at 6pm ET) Each poem submitted carries a $7 entry fee. Poems should be 45 lines or under. Blind read. first prize £2,000, second prize £1,000, third prize £500, plus 20 commendeds. Judges will read all poems submitted. Publisher: Sentinel Poetry Book Competition 2021 Deadline: September 30, 2021 (UK time – deadline at 6pm ET) A contest in 2 stages. Stage 1: submit 20 pages of poetry plus a cover page and a contents page. The entry must be submitted under a pen name. No poem submitted in Stage 1 may have been previously published anywhere and must not have won a competition. A shortlist of 6 collections will be announced on 30th November 2021. The 6 shortlisted poets submit their full collections by 31st December 2021. The full collections may include poems previously published in magazines, blogs, newspapers or other journals. 3 Prize winners will be announced on 28th February 2022 and will be published by SPM Publications. Entry fee: £25. Prizes: Publishing Contract, £300 (1st), £200 (2nd), £100 (3rd). Each poet will also receive 20 copies of his/her collection. Publisher: Tom Howard/Margaret Reid Poetry Prizes Deadline: September 30, 2021 Submit 1-2 poems for a $15 fee. 250 lines maximum per poem. Each prize will award $3,000 to the winner. Tom Howard Prize is for any style or genre of poem; Margaret Reid Prize is for any poem that rhymes or has a traditional style. 10 honorable mentions who receive $200 each. Top 12 entries published online. Deadline: September 30, 2021 The town of North Haven is looking for a poet laureate. Must be 21+ and a North Haven resident and able to make a 2-year commitment to promoting poetry in the community. Online application requiring 3-5 poems, resume, artist’s statement, and a letter of recommendation. UPCOMING POETRY READINGS/WORKSHOPS
August 15 @ 2-4pm (Sunday) - Poetry Summer 2021 Series at Roseland Park, 205 Roseland Park Road in Woodstock, CT, in the outdoor amphitheater. This series is free to the public and will be held from 2-4 p.m. These readings are for people ages 14 and up. Wine will be served. Folding chairs or camp chairs are recommended for a more comfortable time. Besides featured readers there will be an open mic segment at each event as time allows. Covid guidelines will be met. There are 4 reading dates over the summer, and some of the summer’s featured poets will include Paul Richmond, Candace Curran, Karen Warinsky, Paul Rabinowitz, T’Challa Williams, Christine Kalafus, Brian Sneeden, Robert Eugene Perry, Dina Stander, Gerald Yelle, David Wyman, Janine Roberts, and Jayce Porter. Organized by Mrs. Warinsky, who can be reached at karen.warinsky@gmail.com. August 21 @ 9am-4:30pm (Saturday) – Online Woodhall Press Writers Conference with multiple authors discussing all aspects of writing, including Gina Barreca, Jane Friedman, Tom Hazuka, Darien Gee, Jeff Palicki, Ashleigh Renard, Allison Williams, Alena Dillon, Eugenia Kim, Shelley Evans and poet Charles Rafferty, who will lead a poetry workshop. Registration $0-$175. August 21 @ 5pm (Saturday) – The James Merrill House presents poet Armen Davoudian in a virtual reading. He is the author of Swan Song, which won the 2020 Frost Place Chapbook Competition. His poems and translations from Persian appear in AGNI, The Sewanee Review, The Yale Review, and elsewhere. He grew up in Isfahan, Iran and lives in California. August 21 @ 2-3:30pm (Saturday) – Join the Asian American Poets + Community Dialogues, featuring Aaron Caycedo-Kimura at the Connecticut Historical Society, 1 Elizabeth St, Hartford. The Asian and Asian American Studies Institute at UConn and the Connecticut Historical Society, along with Make Us Visible CT, invite you to listen to Connecticut’s Asian American poets and explore personal stories and local histories. Free to attend, but register in advance to get tickets. August 22 @ 2-3:30pm (Sunday) – Poetry Reading, Storytelling & Entertainment with South Windsor poet laureate Charles Margolis. Located in person at Nevers Park, 150 Nevers Road, South Windsor. Open mic following the poet laureate’s reading – sign up to read one poem or up to one page of narrative that reflects on the year of COVID. Also bring copies of your work for possible inclusion in a book publication slated for 2022. Free to attend, bring your own beverages, snacks, and chairs. Contact for questions/to sign up for open mic: Charles Margolis, cmargolis@snet.net. August 31 @10:30am-12pm (Tuesday) – Online poetry discussion with Janet Krauss about the poetry of Stanley Kunitz. No charge for the program. A readings packet will be emailed in advance of the program. Advance registration required. Register online in order to receive the Zoom session invitation link and readings packet. Please email Michael Bellacosa at mbellacosa@wiltonlibrary.org with any questions. September 9 @ 6-8pm (Thursday) – In-person Open House at the new location for the Westport Writers’ Workshop, 25 Sylvan Road South, Unit J in Westport. Stop by and check out their new space, meet their instructors and other writers, and have a drink to toast the re-emergence of in person workshops and events. This event is free and open to the community. Entrance in the back, plenty of parking. Also meet their new poetry instructor, the fabulous local poet Shanna Melton. Some of you might know her from The Writer’s Group she hosts at the City Lights Gallery in Bridgeport. PLACES TO SUBMIT YOUR POETRY Publisher: Pure Slush Deadline: August 31, 2021 New anthology with the theme “love.” Submit up to 5 poems between 80-1000 words each. This submission call is part of a 12-volume set of books with the overarching theme of “Lifespan.” Can submit to all books in the anthology with linked or unlinked works along the theme, or just one. Publisher: As You Were: The Military Review Deadline: open August 15-30, 2021 A digital publication released every Veterans & Memorial Days, they’re looking for military-themed poems and invites submissions from military veterans, families and civilians exploring military themes. Publisher: Prime Number Magazine Deadline: August 31, 2021 Submit one unpublished poem of up to three pages. Simultaneous submissions accepted. Free to submit. Payment is a copy of the guest editor’s poetry book (LaWanda Walters, Light Is the Odalisque). Publisher: Lammergeier Deadline: August 31, 2021 They seek poetry of contradiction: the poetry that finds the intimacy in the grotesque, the grotesque in the intimate, the vulnerability and fist fight. Submit up to five poems in a single document. Simultaneous submissions okay. They offer expedited responses if the submitter donates to one of the listed charities on their website. Payment for published work is $25. Publisher: The Fourth River Deadline: September 1, 2021 Theme of “home.” Send 3-5 poems per submission. Reading fee is $3, but they announce select free submission days on their social media for each submission period. They especially enjoy publishing diverse writers of all backgrounds. Simultaneous submissions okay. Publisher: Save as Writers’ International Writing Competition 2021 Deadline: August 31, 2021 2021 marks the centenary of T S Eliot’s visit to Margate, where he wrote part of The Waste Land while looking out on the sea from the Nayland Rock shelter. To celebrate Eliot, Save As Writers launch their annual international creative writing competition, this year asking for poems and short stories on the theme of Horizons. The theme can be literal, figurative, a celebration of views, a reflection on Eliot and his work (The Waste Land itself opened new horizons in poetry) or a broader take on the theme. Each poem must be a maximum of 60 lines. £3 entry fee per poem, £8 for three. Three winners: 1st prize is awarded The Canterbury Christ Church University Poetry Prize of £200, 2nd is £100, 3rd is £50. Publisher: Fool for Poetry International Chapbook Competition Deadline: August 31, 2021 Two prizes: 1st place receives €1,000 and publication, 2nd place receives €500 and publication. The competition is open to new, emerging and established poets from any country. One of these winners will be the highest scoring manuscript entered by a poet with no solo collection (full-length or chapbook) previously published. Up to 25 other entrants will be publicly listed as "highly commended." Submit a manuscript between 16-24 pages. Entrance fee of €25 ($30). Publisher: Jack Grapes Poetry Prize 2021 Deadline: August 31, 2021 Free to enter. Submit 1 poem. 3 winners will receive $500 each, plus publication. 9 finalists will receive $100 each, plus publication. Publisher: NAWG Open Competition Deadline: August 31, 2021 Entry fee of £5 per story or poem, or £10 for three poems. Cash prizes of £200, £100 and £50 for 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place. Publisher: MONO Poetry Competition Deadline: September 1, 2021 It is with great excitement that we invite you to enter our first poetry competition on the theme of “sanity.” The competition will be judged by acclaimed poet, Padraig Rooney. You can submit up to three poems for a total cost of £6.00. 1st Prize £250, 2nd Prize £100, 3rd Prize £50. Congratulations to Poets' Salon member David Boston on his wonderful new poetry book Passion Poems! UPCOMING POETRY READINGS/WORKSHOPS
July 11 @ 5pm (Sunday) – The Arts Café Mystic presents Colin Channer, award winning Jamaican poet and novelist, with intro by Susannah Lawrence and musical guests Mixed Magic Theatre Gospel. Outdoors at the Mystic Museum of Art, 9 Water Street. Admission $15 general, $5 student. July 14 @ 6-7:30pm (Wednesday) – Poetry in the Garden at the Keefe Center Community Garden in Hamden. Join the Hamden Dept. of Arts and Culture for their second Open Mic Poetry Jam. Register to share your original poetry or just come and listen to the collective, lyrical genius of your friends and community members. Do not need to be a Hamden resident to register. Each speaker gets up to three minutes of mic time to share original, or favorite, works or poetry, lyric, spoken word, etc. (more if time allows). (Rain date Friday, July 16th.) July 17 @ 1:30-2:30pm (Saturday) – Poetry in the Park, hosted by the Trumbull Library at 33 Quality Street, Trumbull. Art comes in many forms, one of which is poetry. The first meet up, where the group will discuss over the hour: your hopes and dreams for a monthly meet-up, special guests, open mic nights, and of course, poetry. Bring all your suggestions! No experience required. They will meet in the shade and respect social distancing rules, so please bring a chair or blanket and your mask. Light refreshments provided. Free to attend, registration required. July 22 @ 5-7pm (Thursday) – Speaking My Truth: Poetry and Spoken Word Workshop at the Mattatuck Museum, 144 West Main Street, Waterbury. Learn to use poetry and spoken word to speak your truth. In this workshop, Poet Shanna T. Melton will lead participants through a step-by-step guide on how to create their own poems and spoken word pieces utilizing themes such as family, community, and identity. Whether you are a seasoned poet or just beginning your poetic journey, in this space everyone is an artist. Notebooks and pencils will be provided. $5 Members, $10 General. July 25 @ 6:30-8pm (Sunday) – Poetry Reading, Storytelling & Entertainment with Manchester poet laureate Ryan Parker. Located in person at WORK_SPACE, 903 Main Street, Manchester. Open mic following the poet laureate’s reading – sign up to read one poem or up to one page of narrative that reflects on the year of COVID. Also bring copies of your work for possible inclusion in a book publication slated for 2022. Free to attend, bring your own beverages and snacks. Contact for questions/to sign up for open mic: Charles Margolis, cmargolis@snet.net. August 7 @ (Saturday) – Books on Pratt author street fair taking place on Pratt Street in Hartford. Over 30 local authors are participating this year, plus there will be live music and poetry readings. Bring your lunch and meet your favorite local authors on Pratt Street. PLACES TO SUBMIT YOUR POETRY Publisher: 3 Moon Magazine Deadline: July 13, 2021 Submit up to 3 poems of no longer a total of 5 pages. No fee, no payment. Publisher: Mom Egg Review Deadline: July 15, 2021 They seek literary work related to mother archetypes; “Mother Figures” from history, religion, pop culture, fairy tales, ecology (Mother Earth), real life, etc. Simultaneous submissions okay. Submit up to 4 poems of no more than 6 pages total. No payment. $3 submission fee. Publisher: Reservoir Road Literary Review Deadline: July 31 or when submission cap is reached Looking for “difficult” literary themes, not day-in-the-life ones. No genre writing. Poems 500 words or less, 1-2 poems. Simultaneous submissions okay. $5 payment per accepted submission. Publisher: Springhouse Journal Deadline: July 31, 2021 Submit up to 3 poems at a time. Simultaneous submissions okay. No fee, no payment. Publisher: Porkbelly Press Deadline: July 31, 2021 Currently open for submissions of micro chapbooks of 8-10 pages of poetry. Can submit 2 chapbooks per reading period in one category. Prefer free verse or prose poems, will also consider lyric and narrative. Simultaneous submissions okay. Payment in the form of 10 handsewn copies and a discount of 20-40% on additional author copies. Publisher: Misery Tourism Deadline: July 31, 2021 The magazine’s overarching theme is human misery, with added monthly themes to narrow the focus. For July, the theme is “’Sploitation.” No payment, no submission fee. Publisher: Perennial Press Deadline: August 7, 2021 Arthropod Anthology is looking for speculative poetry with monstrous, mythical, or mechanical arthropods. The call is open to original poetry and reprints up to 45 lines and 7,500 words respectively. Please submit no more than six poems. Simultaneous submissions permitted. It will be published in mid-to-late 2022. All selected poets will be paid a $20 flat rate. UPCOMING POETRY READINGS/WORKSHOPS
June 14-19 @ various times (Monday-Saturday) – The Schomburg Center Literary Festival (virtual). This year, the day-long book festival has been reconfigured as a virtual festival taking place over six days as the Schomburg Center's doors remain temporarily closed due to COVID-19. Throughout the week, featured authors and books will help writers explore concepts of freedom, culminating on June 19, also known in the United States as Juneteenth, a day in 1865 marking freedom for enslaved people in Galveston, Texas. June 19 @ 1pm (Saturday) – The 2021 Rose Garden Reading presents two Connecticut poets, Antoinette Brim-Bell and Sophie Cabot Black in Under the Tent in Elizabeth Park Hartford, CT. The reading will be followed by an open mic at 2:30pm, hosted by West Hartford’s poet laureate, Ben Grossberg. For more information about the reading, contact Jim Finnegan JforJames@aol.com, and for more information about the open mic, contact Ben Grossberg at Grossberg@Hartford.edu. June 19 @ 5pm (Saturday) – The Merrill House introduces their June Merrill Fellow, Desiree Bailey, who will be reading online from her new work. Bailey is the winner of the Yale Series of Younger Poets Prize. Stream online either via Facebook or YouTube. June 20 @ 5pm (Sunday) – The Arts Cafe Mystic presents a reading by Margaret Gibson and Friends, who will celebrate the newly published "Waking Up To The Earth," an anthology of poems by Connecticut poets celebrating and exploring the natural world. It will be held outdoors on the patio behind the Mystic Museum of Art @ 9 Water Street in Mystic, and all precautions will be taken to maintain the health and safety of everyone present. June 20 @ 7pm (Sunday) – Father’s Day Virtual Reading honoring fathers. Up to 20 poems will be selected and posted in a Father Day's Poetry Anthology on the Poetorium’s website AND will be read by their authors on Zoom at 7:00 p.m. on Father’s Day. We’re hoping to have a diverse representation of poets and poetry forms, so please pass this invitation on to anyone (especially in Worcester County) who may be interested. Please submit one or both of the following by June 13th at the latest: · A poetry stanza inspired by the prompt “I remember my father …” · One original poem about a father/father figure (be sure to include where your poem has appeared if it was previously published) You don’t need to submit an entry to participate in the virtual event, but registration in advance is required. To register, please send us an email with your name and email address (with "Father's Day Poetry Project" in the subject heading) along with any submissions by June 13th to poetorium@mail.com. If you are submitting a contribution to the group ode and/or a poem, be sure to include a short bio. Organized by Paul Szlosek from The Virtual Poetorium. June 26 & 27 @ 12-1:30pm, 2:30-4pm (Saturday) @ 12-1:30pm, 2-3:30pm (Sunday) – The Poets, Writers & Storytellers Stage Live & Outside at the 2021 Norwalk Art Festival. Located at the Lockwood-Matthews Mansion at 295 West Avenue in Norwalk. Hosted by Jerry T Johnson, the event includes poets you might know from the Poets’ Salon: Edward Ahern, Alison McBain, Mary Keating, William Hayden, Gabi Coatsworth, and Jack Powers (hope I didn’t leave anyone out! Let me know if you’re also reading and I’ll add your name to the list). The Rockland Poets June 19 @ 6:45pm - The Rockland Poets hold multiple poetry events every month (currently online), including poetry slams, workshops and reoccurring open mic readings. The next open mic reading is June 19th. For more information, check out their Meetup website HERE. PLACES TO SUBMIT YOUR POETRY Publisher: The Virtual Poetorium (Paul Szlosek) Deadline: June 13, 2021 To contribute, send 2-8 lines inspired by the prompt “I Remember My Father” (the phrase may or not be included in the lines). The lines will then be compiled and edited by Paul Szlosek (bear in mind your lines may be split up and recombined with others to form new stanzas). This ode will be modeled after a similar poem by national poet Kwame Alexander who released “The Ceremony of Giving” on Mother’s day.” (Find his poem and read the full story.) The group ode, along with up to 20 poems about fathers, will be read on the 20th. Please submit one or both of the following by June 13th at the latest: · A poetry stanza inspired by the prompt “I remember my father …” · One original poem about a father/father figure (be sure to include where your poem has appeared if it was previously published). To register, send an email with your name and email address (with "Father's Day Poetry Project" in the subject heading) along with any to poetorium@mail.com. If submitting a contribution to the group ode and/or a poem, include a short bio. Publisher: Housatonic Book Awards Deadline: June 15, 2021 Granted to a book of short or long fiction published in 2020. The award includes all forms of fiction, both literary and genre (mystery, fantasy, science fiction, thriller, etc.). Submission fee $25. Winning prize: $1,000. Publisher: Bull City Press Deadline: June 15, 2021 This is the open reading period for the press, and the reading fee is “pay what you want.” For poetry chapbooks, they are accepting manuscripts between 18-30 pages, single-spaced. Simultaneous submissions accepted. Payment is an advance against royalties plus 10 copies of the chapbook. Publisher: Curiouser Magazine Deadline: July 1, 2021 Submit up to 3 poems. Simultaneous submission accepted. Available to most genres, including speculative poetry. Payment is $25-$40 per poem (Australian). https://curiousermag.com/submissions/ Publisher: Poetry Online Deadline: None. Submit 1-5 poems at a time. Reprints and simultaneous submissions okay. Payment of $25 per poem. https://www.poetry.onl/submit Publisher: Unsettling Reads They’re looking for submission for Autumn Noir: A Crime, Mystery, Noir, Suspense & Thriller Anthology. Sub up to 3 poems that prominently feature autumn and a noir/gritty ethos. Simultaneous submissions okay. Deadline: July 11, 2021 or until full https://unsettlingreads.squarespace.com/submissions UPCOMING POETRY READINGS/WORKSHOPS
May 8 @ 7pm (Saturday, today) – The online Poetry Box LIVE on the 2nd Saturday of each month is hosted by Shawn Aveningo Sanders. Their May Featured Poets are Dianalee Velie (New Hamshire), Julia Paul (Connecticut), Zeina Azzam (Virginia). No pre-registration required. Simply click on the link below approximately 5 minutes before showtime to enter the 'waiting room" and they’ll let everyone in when it's time to start. Zoom link HERE. May 11 @ 7pm (Tuesday) – Join Riverwood @ Real Art Ways for the season finale's poetry reading by Southern Connecticut State University Distinguished Professor, Vivian Shipley via Zoom. An open mic follows her reading and Q&A. Register HERE. And sign up for the open mic by emailing RiverwoodPoetry@yahoo.com. May 13 & May 20 @ 6:30-8pm – Wintonbury Poetry Series Workshop (online), led by Ginny Lowe Connors and hosted by the Bloomfield Public Library. Can join in for one session or both days. May 13: Writing a List Poem. May 20: Pathways to Publication. Sign up below to get the Zoom link, and also to register for the open mic. May 15 @ 12:30pm (Saturday) – An Environmentally-Inspired Poetry Reading with CT’s State Poet Laureate, Margaret Gibson and poets Mary Guitar, Lana Orphanides, Pat O'Brien, and Ginny Lowe Connors. They will read from their new anthology, titled Waking Up to the Earth: Connecticut Poets in a Time of Global Climate Crisis. The event will feature several poet laureates from around the state sharing their poems inspired by nature and the climate crisis. Register for in-person HERE. Register for online HERE. May 19 @ 7-8:30pm (Wednesday) – An evening reading with Alex Dimitrov & Donika Kelly. Registration is free, donations encouraged and appreciated. May 23 @ 2-3:30pm (Sunday) – An open-mic poetry reading and competition on the theme of the environment and nature, hosted by Ben Grossberg, Poet Laureate of West Hartford. This will be an in-person outdoor event at Westmoor Park outdoor classroom, 119 Flagg Rd, West Hartford. Bring a blanket and snacks. Advanced registration is encouraged but not required: email Ben at Grossberg@Hartford.edu. $75, $50, and $25 prizes (gift cards) for the best poetry reading in student and adult categories. Judges: Margaret Gibson, Connecticut State Poetry Laureate and poet Sarah Strong. June 4 @ 7pm – Yellow Arrow Publishing presents readers from their latest journal publication, VI-01 Spring with the theme of Renascence. Alison McBain will be one of the many fabulous readers! Register on their website’s calendar link above to get the Zoom link. June 6 @ 2-4pm – Poetry Summer 2021 Series at Roseland Park, 205 Roseland Park Road in Woodstock, CT, in the outdoor amphitheater. This series is free to the public and will be held from 2-4 p.m. These readings are for people ages 14 and up. Wine will be served. Folding chairs or camp chairs are recommended for a more comfortable time. Besides featured readers there will be an open mic segment at each event as time allows. Covid guidelines will be met. There are 4 reading dates over the summer, and some of the summer’s featured poets will include Paul Richmond, Candace Curran, Karen Warinsky, Paul Rabinowitz, T’Challa Williams, Christine Kalafus, Brian Sneeden, Robert Eugene Perry, Dina Stander, Gerald Yelle, David Wyman, Janine Roberts, and Jayce Porter. Organized by Mrs. Warinsky, who can be reached at karen.warinsky@gmail.com. PLACES TO SUBMIT YOUR POETRY Publisher: Pedestal Magazine Deadline: May 30, 2021 Submit up to 5 poems. No restrictions on theme, style, length, or genre. $3 submission fee, $50 paid per published poem. Publisher: Thimble Literary Magazine Deadline: May 31, 2021 No fee/no payment. Accept all genres and styles of heartfelt poetry. Hybrid works encouraged. Simultaneous submissions are accepted. Send 2-4 poems. Publisher: Circumference magazine Deadline: 5/31/2021 They want to publish passionate, provocative poems that push limits. They welcome poems that take strong stands and raw, riotous rhymes that cross boundaries, including howling and yawping. Send up to 3 poems to poetryinstitute@gmail.com. Write “Circumference Submission” in the Subject Line and include a brief bio of not more than 50 words. The poems and bio should be submitted together in a single Word Doc attachment. In the text of your email, confirm that you are the sole author of your poems and that you own the rights to the poems, and that you give Circumference the right to publish the poems. Publisher: Hudson Valley & Studio Theater in Exile Deadline: June 15, 2021 Anthology: Writing off the Walls: Creativity in the age of COVID. Looking for poems inspired by the art in How We Live: Part II at Hudson Valley MOCA. Sub up to 3 pieces. Publisher: Slapering Hol Press Deadline: June 15, 2021 The Press Chapbook Competition is open to all writers (who are not current students at HVWC) who have not yet published a collection of poems in book or chapbook form. You may not have self-published a book or chapbook at any point in the past and still submit to this contest. Individual poems can be previously published, but poems should not have been published as a group in any form, including self-published collections. Manuscripts can be either a collection of poems or one long poem between 16-20 pages. $15 entry fee with reduced rate for BIPOC submitters. Winner receives $500, editing and marketing advice, publication, 10 copies, and a reading at Hudson Valley Writers Center. UPCOMING POETRY READINGS/WORKSHOPS
April 11 @ 5pm (Sunday) – Reading from the anthology Waking Up to the Earth: Connecticut Poets in a Time of Global Climate Crisis is sponsored by the Stonington Public Library. The poets include Christie Max Williams, Mary Guitar, Clare Rossini, Susan Kinsolving, Jose B. Gonzalez, Dan Donaghy, Edwina Trentham and Jeanne Le Vasseur. The anthology, edited with an introduction by Margaret Gibson, is recently published by Grayson Books in Hartford. Free virtual event, but registration required. April 13 @ 1-2pm (Tuesday) – Poetry Workshop: an online workshop exploring personal and political poetry with Jaswinder Bolina. Poets around the world have long used their art as a means of engaging in social justice causes and political action. In this class, attendees will study how to write politically engaged poetry that doesn’t lose its sense of self, poetry that feels earnest and individual even as it looks outward in hopes of affecting change in the world. Free to attend, but registration is required. April 14 @ 12-1pm (Wednesday) – Poetry Workshop: an online workshop exploring prose poetry with Frances Kai-Hwa Wang exploring finding one’s authentic voice in poetry, and writing prose poetry. Free to attend, but registration is required. April 14 @ 6pm (Wednesday) – Online Art Discussion: Jayne Cortez and Melvin Edwards. Join a discussion about lyricism and social activism in the poetry of Jayne Cortez as well as her work with her husband, artist Melvin Edwards, to advance the Black Arts Movement. The discussion will be led by Tobias Wofford, professor of art history at Virginia Commonwealth University. Free. Co-sponsored with The Amistad Center for Art & Culture. April 15 @ 7pm (Sunday) – Free online poetry reading by CT State Poet Laureate, Margaret Gibson, hosted by the Bloomfield Public Library’s Wintonbury Poetry Series. Open Mic follows the featured poets. Sign up during registration or email Tom Nicotera (tnicotera@libraryconnection.info). April 19 @ 7pm (Monday) – The Cardin Reading Series Presents: a reading by UHart Creative Writing Faculty Christine Beck (former Poet Laureate of West Hartford), Sarah Pemberton Strong, and David Epstein. Following the reading will be a Q&A. Event is free, but registration is required (link HERE). April 24 @ 4-5:30pm (Saturday) – Poetry for a Green World: celebrating Earth Day. In this intensive all-day workshop, participants will read and discuss work by poets who have explored this essential topic and explore different ways of writing poetry of witness with passion and persuasiveness. The major part of the workshop will be devoted to workshopping the poems written by participants and submitted ahead of time. Writing prompts focused on the topic of healing and witness for the earth will be provided.
April 29 @ 6:30-9pm (Thursday) – Quinebaug Valley Community College will hold its 14th Annual Julius Sokenu Poetry Prize Celebration. The event, organized by the QVCC Cultural Programming Committee, will feature a reading and performance by The Cornelius Eady Trio and award-winning student poets. National Book Award winner and Pulitzer prize nominated poet Cornelius Eady has set his poetry to song with the Cornelius Eady Trio. Eady's songs tell the story of passing time, the Black American experience, and the blues in the style of folk & Americana music. Free to stream online. Every Monday at 6pm for the month of April – Hartford Poets: Past & Present. On each Monday evening in April, a Hartford-based poet will recite a poem from a Hartford poet who is no longer with us and whose work is part of the Hartford History Center’s collection. They will also read a poem they wrote inspired by the poet they read. Contemporary Hartford poets featured: Alycia Jenkins aka Lady Abstract, Sadejah Blake, Cameron Wood, and Daniel Diaz-Villafane. Historical Hartford poets featured: Ann Plato, Lucy Cooper Summers, James Overton Rogers, and Juan Fuentes Vizcarrondo. PLACES TO SUBMIT YOUR POETRY Publisher: F(r)iction Deadline: April 29, 2021 Submit up to 5 poems, with up to 3 pages per poem. Looking for works that take risks, and they enjoy all formats and genres, including speculative and experimental. $10 submission fee for 1 entry, $12 for 3 entries. First prize receives $300 and publication – up to 5 finalists will also be considered for publication. Publisher: CT Center for the Book Deadline: April 30, 2021 (5pm EST) The CT Book Award is open to authors and illustrators currently residing in Connecticut, who must have lived in the state at least three consecutive years or have been born in the state. Alternatively, the work may be substantially set in Connecticut. Titles must have been published for the first time between January 1, 2020 and December 31, 2020 or have a copyright within 2020. Categories include poetry. Entry fee of $40-$100, depending on print run. Publisher: Last Girls Club Deadline: May 1, 2021 The Last Girls Club Magazine is a quarterly feminist horror magazine that publishes international short stories and poems from the female gaze. It is an homage to the scary comics and zines of the late 20th century. Submit up to 3 poems of 200 words or less for each poem. $10 upon acceptance. Theme is “Bees: Mad Queens.” Publisher: Kissing Dynamite Deadline: Open 5/1/2021-5/7/2021 (1st week of each month) Open to new & established writers. They are an inclusive space open to all voices. No fee to submit; no payment. Publisher: Bennington Review Deadline: May 8, 2021 They publish new & established writers. Free to submit. Send 3-5 poems per submission. Payment is $20 per poem. Publisher: Shabd Aaweg Deadline: Open submissions Submit no more than 5 pages of poetry. They’re looking for all forms of poetry, and especially enjoy philosophical poems and word-play. No fee to submit; no payment. Publisher: wildness Deadline: Open submissions Submit no more than 10 poems at a time. No fee to submit; no payment. Publisher: Gingerbread House Literary Magazine Deadline: Open submissions Looking for poems with a magical/folkloric/fairytale element. Enjoy retellings, as long as they’re told in an original way. Submit up to five poems at a time. No fee to submit; no payment. |
About Us:The Poets' Salon is an all-inclusive group that gets together the second Saturday of every month from 10 a.m. - 12 p.m in the Memorial Room at the Fairfield Public Library. We read our poetry aloud, politely critique each others' work (upon request), highlight publishing opportunities, and also talk about local poetry readings. Meeting Notes
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