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, [email protected]. 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.
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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 [email protected], and for more information about the open mic, contact Ben Grossberg at [email protected]. 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 [email protected]. 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 [email protected]. 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 [email protected]. 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 [email protected]. $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 [email protected]. 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 [email protected]. 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 ([email protected]). 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. UPCOMING POETRY READINGS/WORKSHOPS
March 14 @ 4-5:30pm (Sunday) – The Hudson Valley Writers Center presents an online reading by the 2020 winner of the SHP Chapbook Contest, Aaron Caycedo-Kimura, to read with his mentor Matthew Thornburn. Tickets are $10, but are also offered free if the price is a hardship and to students of HVWC. March 16 @ 7-8pm (Tuesday) – As part of the Smith Reading Series at Trinity College, the English Department will host a virtual reading and discussion by the Pulitzer-Prize winning poet, and former Poet Laureate of the United States, Tracy K. Smith. Free to attend, but please pre-register for the event at the link below. March 17 @ 5pm (Wednesday) – Roosevelt House is pleased to present a live Zoom discussion of Eleanor: Poems by award-winning poet Gray Jacobik. In this rich and inventive new collection, Jacobik presents a series of poems that powerfully and imaginatively inhabit the voice of the First Lady of the World. The author will be in conversation with definitive Eleanor Roosevelt biographer Blanche Wiesen Cook. RSVP at the link below. March 18 @ 7pm – Wintonbury Poetry Series welcomes “a poet ornithologist” Polly Brody and “a poet psychotherapist” Nancy Kerrigan for an online poetry reading. Free, register online for the Zoom link. March 20 @ 10am-3pm – Southbury Arts Festival 2021. Free to attend online, with many artists, writers, and poets taking part. Schedule on their website. March 21 @ 3pm (Sunday) - Tompkins Corners Cultural Center welcomes Jonathan Andersen as the featured poet at our Poets’ Corner Open Mic. Following Jonathan, the mic opens to all who wish to read, with a five-minute limit. Pre-registration is required to read but not to attend. Writers of all kinds are welcome! Zoom link HERE. March 24 @ 8pm (Wednesday) – Three R’s Poetry, sponsored by Roof Books, is an online event featuring poets Rodrigo Toscano, Kit Robinson and Rodger Kamenetz (moderator is poet Jessica Kinnison). Benefiting UNITY of New Orleans. March 25 @ 6pm (Thursday) – An evening with author Julia Alvarez in conversation with Connecticut writer and poet Sarah Almonte Caraballo. Featuring Dominican music from Connecticut’s Rey Kellys Band. This event will not be available for re-watch, so join live via Facebook or YouTube. April is National Poetry Month. Launched by the Academy of American Poets in April 1996, National Poetry Month reminds the public that poets have an integral role to play in our culture and that poetry matters. For more info and to find events related to National Poetry Month, check out the link below. PLACES TO SUBMIT YOUR POETRY “What is a Chapbook + 8 Chapbook Publishers” Looking to publish a poetry chapbook of about 30-50 pages? Here’s an article shared by a Poets’ Salon member, of a brief explanation of what constitutes a chapbook and 8 publishers who accept chapbook submissions (plus what they’re looking for). Publisher: Yellow Arrow Publishing Deadline: March 31, 2021 Looking for submission from women on the theme of “Renascence.” Sub up to 2 poems of any length. Published poets will be paid $10. Publisher: Winning Writers Deadline: April 1, 2021 Wergle Flomp Humor Poetry Contest – free to enter, prizes include: 1st place $2000, 2nd place $500, 10 honorable mentions of $100 each. Top 12 entries published online. Publisher: Gordon Square Review Deadline: April 1, 2021 Sub up to 3 poems. Simultaneous subs accepted. Payment: $10 per poem. Publisher: Helix Literary Magazine Deadline: April 15, 2021 The Leslie McGrath Poetry Prize, with judge Marilyn Nelson. Writers may submit one poem of any length or style. There will be one winner who receives $1000 and one finalist who receives $100. Both will have their poetry published in The Helix and will be invited to an event at CCSU. Publisher: Olit Deadline: April 15, 2021 New literary journal looking for submissions for their first issue. The editors love the “artfully weird.” Their aim is to focus primarily on publishing marginalized voices, although all voices are welcome. Submit up to 5 poems of any length. Simultaneous subs accepted. Payment is $10 per publication. Publisher: Oh Reader Deadline: No mention of a deadline. Looking for work on the writer’s experiences as a reader, from humor to serious. Payment is $75 for poetry. UPCOMING POETRY READINGS/WORKSHOPS
February 18 @ 7pm (Thursday) – Find a comfortable chair, light a fire, have a glass of wine in hand and relax for a live poetry reading. Scoville’s first Ramble will feature Frederick-Douglass Knowles II, Poet Laureate for the City of Hartford and Margaret Gibson, Connecticut Poet Laureate. Free, but need to register in advance. February 18 @ 7-9:30pm (Thursday) – Wintonbury Poetry Series Virtual Zoom reading with featured poets Dr. Joyce Ash and Patrick Donnelly. Open mic follows the featured poets. Sign up during registration or email Tom at: [email protected]. Free to attend, but must register in advance to receive the online link and password. February 19 @ 7:20-9:30pm (Friday) - Hudson Valley Writers Center's Open Mic night featuring Edward Ahern & John F. McMullen, hosted by Bill Buschel. Open Mic – McMullen & Ahern poetry reading – free attendance, need to sign up to read at the open mic. February 22 @ 7pm (Monday) – Poetry Atlanta and the Georgia Center for the Book present “Mother Mary 2: Eternal Blessings Boogaloo.” This online reading will feature several contributors to Mother Mary Comes to Me: A Popculture Poetry Anthology and will be hosted by Collin Kelley. Free to attend, but must register on Eventbrite to receive the link to the Zoom webinar. February 24 @ 8-9pm (Wednesday) – Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio presents Jerry T. Johnson. Hosted by Dr. Michael Anthony Ingram, Jerry T. Johnson will do a live poetry reading, followed by an interview. FREE to attend, but recommended age 21+. February 24 @ 7-8:30pm (Wednesday) – The Hudson Valley Writers Center presents an online reading with Alicia Ostriker, Roger Reeves, and Jeffrey Yang. Suggested price for tickets is $10, but they are offered free for students/members of HVWC or others who would like to attend but are unable to pay the fee. March 8 @ 5pm (Monday) – James Merrill House is presenting Dan Chiasson, poetry critic for The New Yorker, in their new interview series called Studio 107. an innovative interview series featuring former Merrill writers speaking about their recent published work. You can tune in through their YouTube channel or Facebook. YouTube Channel Facebook Page Weekdays (recorded episodes every weekday, available 24/7 online after recording) - The Poetry Broadcast by Billy Collins on Facebook. PLACES TO SUBMIT YOUR POETRY Publisher: Frontier Poetry Deadline: February 15, 2021 This New Voices Contest will offer $3000 to the author of the judge's favorite poem. 2nd and 3rd place will receive $300 and $200 respectively. We're looking to shine a light on newer poets—only authors with no more than two full length collection currently published may submit. Submit up to 3 poems. Submission fee $20. Publisher: Hearth & Coffin Deadline: February 28, 2021 Free to submit; no payment. Theme is conception. Submit up to 3 poems of no more than 3 pages per poem. Multiple submissions okay. Publisher: About Place Journal Deadline: March 1, 2021 Poetry/Lyric: up to 3 pieces which do not exceed 50 lines each. The issue seeks work that re-imagines the maps that divide us into the privileged and the disadvantaged, that value some lives more than others; work that exposes systems of medical, environmental, and economic apartheid. Publisher: Connecticut River Review Deadline: April 15, 2021 Send up to 4 pages of poetry, no more than one poem/page. Simultaneous submissions okay. Publisher: Connecticut Literary Festival & Central Connecticut State English Department Deadline: April 15, 2021 The Connecticut Literary Anthology is now accepting submissions for their 2021 anthology. Submit up to 2 poems - can enter 1 submission in each category (fiction/nonfiction, poetry). Blind read. Submitters must be CT residents. Payment is 1 copy of anthology and invitation to read at the festival. Publisher: Connecticut Center for the Book Deadline: April 30, 2021 Connecticut Center for the Book at Connecticut Humanities is now accepting submissions for the 2021 Connecticut Book Awards. Connecticut Book Awards recognize the best books by authors from Connecticut or books about Connecticut. Categories include: Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, and Books for Young Readers. A special category called the Bruce Fraser Spirit of Connecticut Award is in memory of longtime director Bruce Fraser and celebrates Connecticut’s sense of place. Entry fees start at $40 for a 2,000-copy-or-less print run. Publisher: Afternoon Visitor Deadline: No deadline posted. Submit between 3-8 poems, 10 page maximum. They’re open to to all poetic styles, including visual poetry. UPCOMING POETRY READINGS/WORKSHOPS
January 16 @ 5:30-7:30pm (Saturday) – Poetry Writing Class led by Katherine Lockton. Subject is: how to write about trauma, and is it permissible to write about trauma if it’s not ours. The techniques taught include writing about difficult issues. £25 for the class, taught via Zoom. January 16 @ 5pm (Saturday) – James Merrill House presents Nicholas Boggs and Nicole Terez Dutton for readings and a conversation. Boggs is a James Merrill Fellow and co-editor of James Baldwin’s Little Man, Little Man. Dutton is a Cave Canem Prize-winning poet and editor of The Kenyon Review. To watch via livestream, go HERE on the day of the event. January 17 @ 2-3pm (Sunday) – Poets on Poetry (POP) presents Pascal D’Angelo, who published an extraordinary immigrant autobiography entitled Son of Italy in 1924, which is interspersed with poetry. The discussion will be moderated by Dennis Barone, Professor Emeritus of the University of Saint Joseph and author of many books about Italian Americans and poetry. Zoom code: https://quinnipiac.zoom.us/ Meeting ID: 961 0111 2566, Passcode: 400257 January 21 @ 7pm (Thursday) – Wintonbury Poetry Series presents features Robert Cording, a Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, and a memorial reading of the late West Hartford poet Jerry Howard, presented by Andy Weil. Produced by the Bloomfield Library, sign up for it at the library’s website calendar of events. Open mic to follow event. January 30 all day (Saturday) – The Sunshine State Book Festival will feature 100 authors writing in 18 genres. You can preview a sampling of the author “booths” right now – each author will have their own video presentation and list of books “to browse” online. Free to “attend” online. January 18-23, various times (Monday-Saturday) – Palm Beach Poetry Festival, held virtually – each 1.5-hour talk, with about a $10 price tag per talk (you can pick and choose which talks you’d like to “attend” online). There are also workshops, but these require an application and also a heftier price tag of a few hundred dollars to attend. Workshop and featured faculty poets include David Baker, Laure-Anne Bosselaar, Traci Brimhall, Eduardo C. Corral, Vievee Francis, Kevin Prufer, Martha Rhodes and Tim Seibles; our Special Guest Poet, Gregory Orr, will perform “The Beloved: A Poetry & Song Cycle” with The Parkington Sisters. Poet At Large is Brian Turner, and faculty readers and presenters also include: Lorna Knowles Blake, Sally Bliumis-Dunn, Nickole Brown, Jessica Jacobs, Angela Narciso Torres and Karin De Weille. PLACES TO SUBMIT YOUR POETRY Publisher: Scribes*MICRO*Fiction Deadline: 5th of every month Open to both original submissions & reprints. Submit 1 poem at a time – accepting poems between 90-110 words (excluding title). No fee to submit, no payment. Submissions close each month on the 5th for that month, and all submissions sent afterwards will be rolled over to the next month. Monthly publication; 1st issue to be published in January 15. Publisher: Rattle Deadline: January 15, 2021 Every year, three winners will receive: $5,000, 500 copies, and distribution to Rattle’s 8,000+ subscribers. The winners will reach an audience that includes hundreds of other literary magazines, presses, and well-known poets. $25 entry fee, and at least 1 winner will be a poet who has never published a full-length collection of poetry. Enter 15-20 pages of poems. Publisher: Channel Mag Deadline: January 15, 2021 Based in Ireland, Channel Mag is looking for work which encourages reflection on human interaction with plant and animal life, landscape and the self. They also welcome submissions in translation. Submit up to 4 poems of any style or length. They pay €40 per poem, up to €120. Publisher: Wildness Journal Deadline: Ongoing submissions Send no more than 10 poems per submission. No fee to submit; no payment for publication. Accept most styles and genres. Simultaneous submissions okay; no reprints. Response time in under a month. Publisher: CutBank Deadline: February 1, 2021 Cutbank is the literary journal of the University of Montana. They accept up to 5 poems at a time. $5 reading fee, which goes toward paying contributors for their work. Rates will be decided at the close of the submission period. Blind read, simultaneous submissions okay. Publisher: CutBank Deadline: February 1, 2021 The Patricia Goedicke Prize in Poetry seeks to highlight work that showcases an authentic voice, a boldness of form, and a rejection of functional fixedness. The winner, chosen by their judge William Jolliff, will be featured in CutBank 95 and receive $500. All pieces will be considered for print publication. $20 entry fee, which covers up to 5 poems. Blind read. Award: CT Press Club Award(s) Deadlines: January 27, 2021 (early), February 3, 2021 (books), February 10, 2021 (final) If you’ve published anything in 2020, you may enter any of the 61 categories for writing. They include all kinds of writing, as well as editing, photography, graphics, radio and TV, websites, podcasts, advertising and PR, and a host more. You may submit up to three entries in any given category, and up to ten entries in total. UPCOMING POETRY READINGS/WORKSHOPS
December 13 @ 6pm (Sunday) - Poetry Flash presents a virtual poetry reading celebrating Omnidawn’s Spring 2020 books, with Desirée Alvarez, “Raft of Flame,” Anthony Cody, “Borderland Apocrypha,” Jennifer Hasegawa, “La Chica’s Field Guide to Bazai Living,” David Koehn, “Scatterplot,” Craig Santos Perez, "Habitat Threshold," and LM Rivera, “Against Heidegger.” Online via Zoom, free to attend. Sign up via the link below. https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZArcO2qqD4iEtUNwFD0_RP0FAARW4m5YEoa Tuesdays @ 9pm - The Rattle Reading Series: part interview and part reading, with a prompt-based open mic, it’s a casual way to hang out with Rattle editor Timothy Green and all of their friends in poetry around the world. Go to their YouTube channel and click “Subscribe.” Each show is also simulcast to Facebook Live. Each Rattlecast episode also features a writing prompt at the end of the show, and a short open mic for poems written for the last week’s prompt or anything else the audience would like to share. To participate, just send your poem to [email protected], and he’ll read and share a few on the air. Rattlecast #70 features Alan W. King and his forthcoming chapbook, Crooken Smiling Light. https://www.rattle.com/rattlecast/ December 15 @ 8pm (Tuesday) - Open Door Series Online: Beth McDermott & Maya Marshall. Free to watch; register online via Eventbrite to receive Zoom link. Presented by the Poetry Foundation. https://www.poetryfoundation.org/events/154303/open-door-series-onlinebeth-mcdermott-maya-marshall December 17 @ 7-9:30pm (Thursday) – Prosser Public Library presents a poetry reading with featured poets Lori Desrosiers and Benjamin Grossberg. Open mic follows the featured poets. Sign up during registration or via email. Upon registering your email for this program, you will receive the Zoom link to join. If you don’t have computer access, call the Library for the phone number, meeting ID & password and join the event over the phone. To sign up, contact Tom Nicotera: [email protected] or call him (860) 243-9721. http://bplct.evanced.info/signup/ January 1 @ 12-12:20pm – Poets House Presents: Dan Taulapapa McMullin, an artist and poet from Sāmoa Amelika (American Samoa). His book of poems Coconut Milk (University of Arizona Press) was on the American Library Association Rainbow List Top Ten Books of the Year. Free virtual reading from Coconut Milk – to listen, sign up online. https://poetshouse.org/event/poets-house-presents-dan-taulapapa-mcmullin/ PLACES TO SUBMIT YOUR POETRY Publisher: Typehouse Literary Magazine Deadline: December 20, 2020 Send up to 6 poems per submission. All forms and subjects encouraged (except NOT coronavirus-themed). Free to submit, payment for writers between $10-$18. https://typehousemagazine.com/submissions/ Publisher: The Two Sylvias Press Deadline: December 31, 2020 2020 Wilder Series Poetry Book Prize: A Poetry Contest for Women Over Age 50. Open to women over 50 years of age (established or emerging poets) and includes a $1000 prize, publication by Two Sylvias Press, 20 copies of the winning book, and a vintage, art nouveau pendant. Women submitting manuscripts may be poets with one or more previously published chapbooks/books or poets without any prior chapbook/book publications. All manuscripts will be considered for publication. http://twosylviaspress.com/wilder-series-poetry-book-prize.html Publisher: Savant-Garde Literary Magazine Deadline: January 1, 2021 (or until full) Submit no more than 3 poems at a time, max 2 pages per poem. Also accepts micropoems, but only as a series of 2-5. Open to a wide range of genres (literary, experimental, fantasy, horror with a purpose) including genre-blending. Free to submit, $20 honorarium paid upon publication. https://www.savantgarde.ca/submissions Publisher: The Frost Place Deadline: January 5, 2020 The selected winner’s chapbook will be published by Bull City Press in the summer following the competition. The winner receives 10 complimentary copies (from a print run of 300), a $250 prize, full scholarship to attend the Poetry Seminar at The Frost Place (including room and board), and gives a featured reading from the chapbook at the Seminar. $28 entry fee. Writer in Residence Program Deadline: January 10, 2020 The James Merrill House, located at 107 Water Street in Stonington, is now accepting applications for their writer in residence program for 2021-2022 (either a 4-week or 6-week stay). They are looking for writers who need a working space to complete a project of “literary or academic merit.” Apply online. $30 fee. If accepted, the recipient will stay at the Merrill Apartment, give a virtual reading or talk and receive a stipend of $1,100 per month. Publisher: The Hopper Deadline: No deadline listed. The environmental literary magazine from Green Writers Press is accepting submissions poetry – send no more than 5 poems per submission. They are interested in nature writing that speaks about the environmental crisis. Free to submit, no payment for publication. Publisher: Scribes*MICRO*Fiction Deadline: No deadline Open to both original submissions & reprints. Submit 1 poem at a time – accepting poems between 90-110 words (excluding title). No fee to submit, no payment. Monthly publication; 1st issue to be published in January. UPCOMING POETRY READINGS/WORKSHOPS
November 14 @ 2pm (Saturday, today) – The Arts Café Mystic at The Mystic Museum of Art, 9 Water Street, Mystic. They present their final outdoor performance today with poets Jeffrey Harrison and local poet Barbara Hill. Musical guests Greg Piccolo and Bill Morrison. Event is outdoors, attendance is limited, and all social distancing will be strictly adhered to. Masks required. Tickets $15, available via their website and Eventbrite. November 17 @ 7pm (Tuesday) – Open Door Series Online: Nathan Hoks & Tara Betts. Free to watch; register online via Eventbrite to receive Zoom link. November 19 @ 2pm (Thursday) – Virtual Poetry Masterclass with Patricia Smith (online), presented by The Aldrich. A 90-minute virtual writing masterclass with award-winning poet Smith, a professor at College of Staten Island. Limit 30 participants; registration required; $89. November 19 @ 6:30pm (Thursday) – Virtual Open Mic featuring Atom Rush, the poet laureate of Brookfield, and an open mic afterwards for artists of all kinds, from writers to dancers. Sign up via email [email protected]. Hosted by the Brookfield Library. November 19 @ 7pm (Thursday) – Virtual Wintonbury Poetry Series Reading via Zoom, featuring Michael Lepore (Glastonbury’s Poet Laureate) and Rhett Watts. Free event, but registration required to receive the Zoom link. December 2 @ 6:30-8:30pm (Thursday) – Guilford Poets Guild welcomes award-winning poet Charles Rafferty. Located at Guilford Free Library, 67 Park Street, Guilford. Free event, light refreshments served, registration required. December 9 @ 7pm (Wednesday) – Poetry Rocks, the quarterly reading series in Vernon, is having its second celebration honoring military veteran writers on Dec. 9, 2020, 7:00 pm, via Zoom. The reading features vets Doug Anderson and Roger Singer, and introduces young poet Prisca Afantchao, a Togolese-American, living in Windsor. To register for this free event, please email Vernon Poet Laureate Pegi Deitz Shea at [email protected] or call her at 860-878-7016 for the Zoom link. PLACES TO SUBMIT YOUR POETRY Publisher: Tír na nÓg Deadline: November 20, 2020 First submission call for new literary magazine based in Galway. Send submissions to [email protected]. Send up to 3 poems in a single document. Blind read – don’t include name or other information on the document, only in your email. The editors provide feedback to submissions. Simultaneous submission okay, but let them know right away if a piece is accepted elsewhere. Publisher: Rougarou Deadline: November 21, 2020 Magazine run by the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. Submit 3-5 poems in a Word or PDF document. Please include your email address in your submission and a brief third-person bio in your cover letter. Response within 6 months. Publisher: Postscript Magazine Deadline: November 23, 2020 Theme is “care.” Submissions are not restricted to any topic, but must pertain in some way to the theme of the open call. We emphasize work that pushes against conventional modes of thinking about culture and society (particularly in non-Western and/or marginalized settings). No word limits. Publisher: Claw & Blossom Deadline: November 28, 2020 Theme is “other.” Looking for pieces that explore human striving with an awareness of the larger context. Work must contain some element of the natural world. Prefer free verse over poetic form poetry. Send 1 poem per submission. Blind read. No submission fee; $25 paid per acceptance upon publication. Response in 3 months or less. Publisher: opia Deadline: November 30, 2020 Theme is “nostalgia.” Submissions open for the first issue of the magazine! Submissions accepted from marginalized & underrepresented writers. Send 1 poem at a time; accept all poetic forms. Response in 1 month or less. £10 or 1 complimentary copy of the magazine. Publisher: Dwelling Literary Deadline: December 15, 2020 (or until full) Theme is “Dream House.” Looking for poetry of 50 lines or less. Only submit once per submission period. Free to submit and no payment for publication, but they do nominate for The Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net. Don’t accept R-rated work. Publisher: Pocketfire Presents Deadline: Ongoing/no deadline Looking for poetry submissions for 2 publications – poetry videos (Pocketfire Presents) and online print publication (publication name: Kindling). Submit 1-3 poems, $2-5 submission fee (fee refunded if poems are accepted). Response within 1 week. Congratulations to Poets' Salon member Carey Link on her new poetry chapbook Through the Kaleidoscope, published by Blue Light Press! UPCOMING POETRY READINGS/WORKSHOPS
October 11 @ 2-4pm (Sunday) – The Arts Café Mystic Presents A “Green Poetry Café” With Margaret Gibson, Joan Hofmann, and Steve Straight at the Mystic Museum of Art, 9 Water Street, Mystic. Green poetry includes poetry about nature, the environment, and climate crisis but in addition it explores our relationship, as individuals and communities and countries, with the natural world. Seats are limited and tickets must be purchased ahead of time via our website. Social distancing will be practiced and safety precautions will be strictly adhered to. Tickets are $15 for general admission and $5 for students. For more information, contact Lisa Starr at 401-241-2592 or [email protected]. October 14th @ 11am-1pm (Wednesday) and October 16th @ 2pm-4pm (Friday) – All are welcome to a poetry discussion and creative writing workshop led by Maggie Queeney. In this session, the pantoum will be explored, a form born of Malaysian oral poetry that draws heavily upon repetition, rhyme, and juxtaposition. The group will explore a wide variety of poems and conclude with a guided creative writing workshop, where participants will compose an original pantoum. Free to attend, but registration is required; space is limited. To register, email [email protected] with the date and time of the session you would like to attend. October 15th @ 7-9pm (Thursday) – Readings and discussion by the poets of Forms & Features, an online creative community that celebrates the diverse voices, rich experiences, and powerful words of poets from around the world. Free, online event, but advanced registration is required. October 20th @ 7:30pm (Tuesday) – The Allan K. Smith Reading Series presents Jericho Brown, who will do a reading online from his work. He is the author of The Tradition (2019), which was a finalist for the 2019 National Book Award and the winner of the 2020 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. Event is free, but advanced registration is required. October 22nd-November 1st - The Dodge Poetry Festival is moving online this year, and it's FREE to attend! With multiple events featuring close to 100 celebrated poets, check out the festival's online schedule to find out which poetry events capture your interest. November 10th @ 9pm (Tuesday) – Open Door Series online presents a live virtual reading with Chicago poets Suzanne Buffam, CM Burroughs, and their MFA students Fatima Eldigair and Chad Morgan. Free to attend, but advanced registration required. PLACES TO SUBMIT YOUR POETRY Publisher: Conduit Books & Ephemera Deadline: October 31, 2020 “Minds on Fire” Open Book Prize is awarded to any poet writing in English, regardless of previous publication record. Previously unpublished manuscripts of 48-90 pages should be submitted through our Submittable page. Blind read. The winning poet will receive $1,500 and 30 author copies. $25 entry fee. Publisher: Quarterly West Deadline: November 1, 2020 This fall, Quarterly West will open for its inaugural poetry and prose contests. The winners will each receive $1000 and publication in the Issue 102 of Quarterly West. Two runners-up will each receive $250 and all entries will be considered for publication. To enter, submit up to three poems. The submission fee is $10. The inaugural poetry judge is Natalie Scenters-Zapico. Publisher: Perugia Press Deadline: November 15, 2020 The press’s tagline reads: “Publishing New Women Poets Since 1997.” The Perugia Press Prize is now open to women poets living in the U.S., and the winner receives publication, $1,000 and 10 author copies, mentoring during the publication and promotion of her book, travel stipends and honorariums during a series of opening book launch events, and publicity and promotion at local and national book events. Poets must have no more than 1 previously published full-length book of poetry in English. Also open to hybrid works that include collaborations and visual art. Manuscripts should be previously unpublished as a whole (individual poems published elsewhere are okay), be 45-85 pages, with one poem per page. Blind read. $27 entry fee per submission (multiple submissions okay). Publisher: The Halcyone/Black Mountain Press/Her Words Deadline: October 29, 2020 (Her Words), November 1, 2020 (The Halcyon), November 20, 2020 (Black Mountain Press Chapbook Contest) Her Words is a collection of poetry and short stories for, by, and about women. The collection provides a feminine touch on the literary world and gives women the opportunity to receive recognition for who they are and for the words they have written. Send 2 pieces per submission. Selected writers of each issue will receive two copies as payment. $6 submission fee. * * * The Black Mountain Press will now be awarding a quarterly chapbook winner for poets and fiction writers. Submissions should be from 16-64 pages for consideration of your short novel, short story collections, graphic novel, or poetry collection. Quarterly winner receives 12 copies as payment. The Black Mountain Press intends to publish one or more manuscripts from this reading period. $12 submission fee. * * * We are now accepting submissions to the the Fall 2020 Issue of The Halcyone. Enter up to 4 poems that have not been published elsewhere. The Halcyone pays featured poets (3-4 poems) 5 copies of the quarterly review. Single poems receive 3 copies of the publication. Entry to The Halcyone also acknowledges that the writer or artist accepts that their submitted work may be used in the online blog at TheHalcyone.com. $8 submission fee. Publisher: So to Speak Deadline: November 10, 2020 (early deadline with ½ submission fee: October 11, 2020) Submit up to 5 poems, not exceeding 10 pages. Looking for work that celebrates intersectional feminism. Multiple submissions okay, each requiring a separate submission fee. $5 submission fee until October 11, 2020 (tomorrow) - $10 submission fee until November 10, 2020. Publisher: New Letters Deadline: No deadline Send no more than 6 poems. Accepts both online and paper submissions. Sim subs okay. $4.95 fee for submissions (waived for subscribers to the magazine). Publisher: Palette Poetry Deadline: October 18, 2020 The 2020 Brush & Lyre Prize is now open. This unique multimedia contest will accept work that incorporates poetry into new media formats, including but not limited to: music, video, art, photography, sculpture, and performance. The editors will rate the work accordingly: 50% poetic experience, 50% media experience. Each submission must include poetry into the work in some significant way—visually written or audio recorded. Ekphrasis is welcome as well, as long as the art is original. Their editorial team will select the winner of the $3000 top prize, as well as two runner-ups for $300 and $200 respectively. Keep any recordings or video to under 8 minutes in length. Collaborations are welcome. 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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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