We have an exciting giveaway opportunity! 😱

Win a copy of “I Do Everything I'm Told” by Megan Fernandes, a $10 Starbucks gift card, and ONE free contest submission to an upcoming Palette Poetry contest.

Fill out the form to enter here: forms.gle/Yqs4HXFny5573k…

today's #poem is 'Phylogeny' by Summer Barnett:

'Praise God for steam, its generosity / and blur, for the dark nest / of hair pulped on the shower wall.'

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today's #poem is 'The Kiling' from Sarah Stinnett:

'It crosses / a creek hight with spring rain, dying leaves / pulled from
the bank– the dark set in / heavy as an eyelid.'

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today's #poem is by Stevie Edwards:

'no harm will come to the toad / in this ceremony, but also no kisses.'

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today's #poem is 'Portrait of a Lady' by Linden Smith:

'What she’d been calling neurobehavioral and / pathophysiological, was now something made of / mildew and dogshit.'

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Sending love and gratitude to all the poets who shared their poems for our 2024 Love & Eros Prize! Thank you for trusting us with your words, we can't wait to see all your interations of love. Regardless of acceptance or decline, you will hear back from us.💘

today's #poem is from Ela K, 'where time dips & meets horizon'

'masked in wilting flowers, the face is not a face but a skull unfinished'

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Final day to submit to our Love & Eros Prize! 😱

Submit up to 3, unpublished poems per submission. Guest Judge John Lee Clark will choose three winners. First place will receive $3,000 + publication!

Deadline: April 7, 2024, 11:59 PM Pacific

Learn more: palettepoetry.com/current-contes…

today's #poem is from Emma Buckley;

''The wolf-girl is content that she prayed so hard for sharp teeth, / as the washing machines spin like the records used to do, / and the streetlights buzz like door-to-door salesman or houseflies'

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Closing soon: Our 2024 Love & Eros Prize!

We encourage love poems beyond the confines of what’s traditionally “romantic.” Guest Judge John Lee Clark will choose our winning poems this year! 💗

Deadline: April 7, 2024, 11:59 PM Pacific

Learn more: palettepoetry.com/current-contes…

today's #poem is 'Lover of Faith, Lover of Marble' by Zoi Athanassiadou

'before the insects trill their morning song / after the sisters snore their night prayers / we each take up cloth and name'

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this week, we're celebrating the intersection of visual art and poetry with our 8th edition of If These Covers Could Talk.

Dimitri Reyes and Samuel Miranda discuss the cover of Papi Pichón (Get Fresh Books Publishing, 2023).

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today's #poem is from David Moolten;

'even as you pray what's between you / and disaster is more than tape / and padded cups.'

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today's #poem from Ewurakua Dawson-Amoah;

'why am i thinking about doing my hair before i see to this fever / straightening myself up before i treat this sickness'

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Congrats to the winner of our 2023 Grisly & Grotesque challenge, Stephanie Saywell!

“I regret / that I never mentioned you in my sleep, never thought / that you might want me to leave the porch light on / for a thousand saints to welcome you to my home.”

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