Wax International

05/26/2024

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS

Here's a list of current contests on the Wax Poetry and Art Network. All contests are free to enter, with no cash prize. Submissions close September 14th, 2024. View all on the Submissions page: and read the guidelines to submit.
https://waxpoetryart.com/submissions.html

Wax Poetry and Art Poetry Contest
Submissions are open to everyone. Submissions close September 14th, 2024.

Wax Poetry and Art Featured Poet Contest
Submissions are open to everyone published in a Wax Poetry and Art publication between September 1st, 2021, and today's date.

Wax Poetry and Art Socially Engaged Poetry Contest
Submissions are open to everyone. Submissions close September 14th, 2024.

Wax Poetry and Art Under 25 Poetry Contest
Submissions are open to all persons under 25 years of age. Submissions close September 14th, 2024.

Wax Poetry and Art Haiku Contest
Submissions are open to everyone. Submissions close September 14th, 2024.

Wax Poetry and Art Three Haiku Contest
Submissions are open to everyone. Submissions close September 14th, 2024.

Wax Poetry and Art Photo Contest
Submissions are open to everyone. Submissions close September 14th, 2024.

Wax Poetry and Art Visual Art Contest
Submissions are open to everyone. Submissions close September 14th, 2024.

Comet Contests

The winners of these contests will be collected in the issue of Wax Poetry and Art Magazine that will be pubilshed on on January 15th, 2025. Contests are listed alphabetically by publication name.

Africa Poetry Magazine Contest
Accepts poetry submissions from everyone living in Africa.

Axil Poetry and Art Poetry Contest
Accepts poetry submissions from everyone under 25 years of age.

Canada Poetry Magazine Contest
Accepts poetry submissions from everyone living in Canada.

Dublin Poetry Magazine Contest
Accepts poetry submissions from everyone living in Ireland and Northern Ireland.

Edmonton Poetry Magazine Contest
Accepts poetry submissions from everyone living in North and South America.

Eleventh Transmission Poetry Contest
Accepts submissions of socially engaged poetry, taking into consideration the widest possible definition of socially engaged. Submissions are open to everyone.

First Nations Poetry Magazine Contest
Accepts poetry submissions from First Nations, Métis, and Inuit Canadians; Native Americans; and Indigenous people from around the world.

India Poetry Magazine Contest
Accepts poetry submissionsfrom everyone living in India.

Montreal Poetry Magazine Contest
Accepts poetry submissions from everyone living in the Canadian province of Quebec.

NYC Poetry Magazine Contest
Accepts poetry submissions from everyone living in the Northeastern United States. This includes the states of Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, and Vermont.

Vancouver Poetry Magazine Contest
Accepts poetry submissions from everyone living in the Pacific Northwest. This includes Alaska, Idaho, Oregon, and Washington in the United States, and British Columbia and The Yukon in Canada.

Wax International Poetry Contest
Accepts poetry submissions from everyone.

Wax Poetry and Art publishes poetry, fiction, visual art, and photography from around the world.

05/14/2023

And the Sky

by Mykyta Ryzhykh
(Nova Kakhovka, Kherson, Ukraine)

and the sky is still falling on my head
but I do not believe the sky in the ceiling of the bombed-out room

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Read 'And the Sky' by Mykyta Ryzhykh, poet from Nova Kakhovka, Kherson, Ukraine. Published in Wax International, part of the Wax Poetry and Art Network.

05/08/2023

Poetry World #6

It's like riding a blue bike through a lavender field on a bright sunny day. Enjoy poetry and photography by artists from around the world. Featuring new work published in Wax International.

Wax Poetry and Art presents Poetry World #6. Poetry World collects new poems published on the Wax Poetry and Art Network.

01/02/2023

Start your new year off with new poetry and photography from around the world. Read Poetry World #5, now. Includes poetry published in Wax International.

Wax Poetry and Art presents Poetry World #5. Poetry World collects new poems published on the Wax Poetry and Art Network.

09/02/2022

Wax Poetry and Art presents:

Poetry World #4

Read what's on the minds of poets from Canada, Nigeria, USA, England, Eswatini, Scotland, South Africa, Tanzania, and Brazil.
(Listed in order of appearance).

Wax Poetry and Art presents Poetry World #4. Poetry World collects new poems published on the Wax Poetry and Art Network.

09/01/2022

Wax Poetry and Art presents,

Poetry World #4

Capturing the poetic breath of humanity, this new issue presents 25 new poems from an international roster of poets.
Take a journey around the world, in poetry.

Wax Poetry and Art presents Poetry World #4. Poetry World collects new poems published on the Wax Poetry and Art Network.

09/25/2021

New in Wax International –

"You Married an Ice Skater" by John Grey

Youth and limbs,
beauty and blade:
the chill of winter
was not always cruel.

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http://waxpoetryart.com/international/published/2021grey.html

Read the poem, 'You Married an Ice Skater' by John Grey, poet from Rhode Island, USA. Published in Wax International, part of the Wax Poetry and Art Network.

09/25/2021

New in Wax International –

"Drought and the Woodsmen" by John Horváth Jr (USA)

We have arrived like summer's clouds
you've seen approach, amass, then drift
slowly off as you wonder
"when will it rain?"

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http://waxpoetryart.com/international/published/2021horvath.html

Read the poem, 'Drought and the Woodsmen' by John Horváth Jr, poet from Jackson, Mississippi, USA. Published in Wax International, part of the Wax Poetry and Art Network.

09/19/2021

Wax Poetry and Art presents

Poetry World #1

Read new poems from around the world. Poetry World collects new poems published on the Wax Poetry and Art Network. Enjoy and share the poems in this collection, and submit poetry for the next.

http://waxpoetryart.com/collections/poetryworld1.html

Wax Poetry and Art presents Poetry World #1. Poetry World collects new poems published on the Wax Poetry and Art Network.

02/14/2021

Poetry World #1: Poem 17 of 17

Published in US Poetry Magazine

Afro-Latina

by Vasti Carrion
(Pacoima, California, USA)

He dissected my face
with his scalpel eyes,
my face is like a math equation
they have to solve,
Trying to make sense
of a wonderous face.

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http://waxpoetryart.com/usa/2020/carrion.html

02/14/2021

Poetry World #1: Poem 16 of 17

Published in UK Poetry Magazine

Sunday

by Thomas Mitchell
(Bradford, West Yorkshire, UK)

Morning proceeds, not rushing nor slowing for me to awaken from my slumber,
When I do arise the thought of nothingness and cease of activity increases the sloth within me.
Away from the dredges of toil, this small margin of comfort will be
realised.

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http://waxpoetryart.com/uk/2020/mitchell.html

02/14/2021

Poetry World #1: Poem 15 of 17

Published in Toronto Poetry Magazine

From the Maddening Crowd

by Ramesh Dohan
(Toronto, Ontario, Canada)

I trudge
Down the road with the others
We don’t hold hands
or speak to each other, or
peer in the distance
Nobody mutters

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http://waxpoetryart.com/toronto/2020/dohan.html

02/14/2021

Poetry World #1: Poem 14 of 17

Published in Ottawa Poetry Magazine

Fabrications

by Margaret Code
(Toronto, Ontario, Canada)

Wouldn’t this be foxy with
a salmon sheath
underneath
…the fall ballet gala?

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http://waxpoetryart.com/ottawa/2020/code.html

02/14/2021

Poetry World #1: Poem 13 of 17

Published in Nigeria Poetry Magazine

Break-in-Transmission

by Osuluku Woyengideigha Favour
(Yenagoa, Bayelsa State, Nigeria)

Break in, Transmission!
Transmission is a burglar
Cracking through the windows of routine
Inputting and displaying
Broken news on untampered screens
Tonight

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http://waxpoetryart.com/nigeria/2020/favour.html

02/14/2021

Poetry World #1: Poem 12 of 17

Published in Montreal Poetry Magazine

Grief, Waiting

by C. A. Legault
(Saint-Eustache, Quebec, Canada)

The foundering of my hobby-horse heart
or of whatever other vessel that once faced the sun.

I feel the way a ceiling lamp moth does, now,
as dust.

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http://waxpoetryart.com/montreal/2020/legault.html

02/14/2021

Poetry World #1: Poem 11 of 17

Published in London Poetry Magazine

Imaginings of the Familial

by Joel Schueler
(Stroud, Glouchestershire, England)

Bandaging the bloodied sceptre
passed down like the baton from generations passed,
must you hold up those warring, quarrelling words,
watching the watering can
bathe the blade, watching the watering can
moisten roots of family trees?

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http://waxpoetryart.com/london/2020/schueler.html

02/14/2021

Poetry World #1: Poem 10 of 17

Published in Wax International

Meditation at Night

by Marina Jarra
(Berlin, Germany)

At half past three
My dog will bark
He follows me
Into the dark
To shadows of the moon's bright light

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http://waxpoetryart.com/international/2020/jarra.html

02/14/2021

Poetry World #1: Poem 9 of 17

Published in India Poetry Magazine

Stories Inside Her

by Anjali Chaturvedi
(New Delhi, India)

She carries a bookshelf inside her heart
With ink flowing in her veins.

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http://waxpoetryart.com/india/2020/chaturvedi.html

02/14/2021

Poetry World #1: Poem 8 of 17

Published in Europe Poetry Magazine

Promenade

by Aleks Wruk
(Edinburgh, Scotland)

Nothing
That’s where I
Start
Filling
The world
With sun
And sea

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http://waxpoetryart.com/europe/2020/wruk.html

02/14/2021

Poetry World #1: Poem 7 of 17

Published in Eleventh Transmission

What Say the Trees of Compiègne?

by Sylvia Anne Telfer
(Rutherglen, South Lanarkshire, Scotland)

Stiff-legged all the elevens goose-stepped in
on one date in late 1918, and in that lean dawn
the Armistice swooped down with wing-clipped
black eagles bulging in beak, hurtling them to railcar
deep in the forest of Compiègne, to the trees.

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http://waxpoetryart.com/eleventh/2020/telfer.html

02/14/2021

Poetry World #1: Poem 6 of 17

Published in Edinburgh Poetry Magazine

At Low Tide

by Aleks Wruk
(Edinburgh, Scotland)

At the last pages
Of my book
I sit aside
Watching life
At forty-five
Degree angle
Amused

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http://waxpoetryart.com/edinburgh/2020/wruk.html

02/14/2021

Poetry World #1: Poem 5 of 17

Published in Canada Poetry Magazine

Upon the Wind

by Steve Carter
(Port Coquitlam, British Columbia, Canada)

Upon the wind my lover sighs,
In wheat I stand beneath blue skies.
Her face appears across the grain.
Wide swaths bend down as if in pain,
And in so doing vocalize.

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http://waxpoetryart.com/canada/2020/carter.html

02/14/2021

Poetry World #1: Poem 4 of 17

Published in Calgary Poetry Magazine

from a sickbed

by James Thurgood
(Calgary, Alberta, Canada)

between giddy sleeps
I read poems
(which may not speed recovery)

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http://waxpoetryart.com/calgary/2020/thurgood.html

02/14/2021

Poetry World #1: Poet 3 of 17

Published in Axil Poetry and Art

Flipped Fate

by Lorwin Marie S. Baculanta
(Tarlac City, Tarlac, Philippines)

By flipping the coin, you can win or lose
You'll survive in a fifty-fifty chance
Otherwise, you'll die so don't miss a glance

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http://waxpoetryart.com/axil/2020/baculanta.html

02/14/2021

Poetry World #1: Poet 2 of 17

Published in Angela Poetry Magazine

The Dentist Said

by Bruce McRae
(Salt Spring Island, British Columbia, Canada)

Let me hand you your head.
He said your mouth
is Ali Baba’s cavern
filled with treasure beyond measure.

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http://waxpoetryart.com/angela/2020/mcrae.html