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01/13/2025

Poetry International’s Winter Tiny Chapbook Competition is up and running 📝✨ From now until February 1st, submit your 8-16 page tiny chapbooks for the chance to be published in an issue of Poetry International.

More info & our Submittable link on our site here: https://poetryinternationalonline.com/chapbooks/

12/02/2024

Poetry International Online has a brand new look!
Explore our ✨SNAZZY✨ homepage that spotlights new and archival work, including Suphil Lee Park’s poem “A Little Light”:

“Stand
still. My little
light, go
around the world
and spread joy.
Make heavy hearts
a
little
lighter.”

poetryinternationalonline.com

10/31/2024

“I would like to believe in souls reaching through / the flesh of understanding, hungry to be seen / and detecting each other through defective means. / I would like to believe this life is a sleep we’ll wake from”

Tony Barnstone from
“Hungry Ghosts”
PI 6

10/14/2024

Poetry International is accepting submissions for our annual Cavafy Poetry Prize. Submissions are open from now until December 1st.

The winning poem receives $1000 & publication in a future edition of PI. You may submit a maximum of 3 poems for a $15 entry fee.

For more information, visit:
https://www.poetryinternationalonline.com/cavafy-prize-now-open/

09/24/2024

Congratulations to our 2023 C.P. Cavafy Prize Winner, HOLLY POLLARD, whose prize-winning poem “Epicerie L’Idéal” (chosen by Sandra Alcosser) will be published in an upcoming edition of PI!📝✨

More on Holly & the 2024 Cavafy Prize submissions period here: https://www.poetryinternationalonline.com/cavafy-prize-now-open/

07/22/2024

Poetry International’s Summer Tiny Chapbook Competition is well under way📝✨ From now until September 1st, submit your best 8-16 pages for the chance to be published in an issue of Poetry International.

For more info: https://www.poetryinternationalonline.com/chapbooks-2/

Our Submittable: https://poetryinternational.submittable.com/submit

03/01/2024

‼️Our PI Prize Contest submissions period is OPEN! The PI Prize awards $1,000 and publication for a single poem. Today until 4/30, submit up to 3 poems for a fee of $15. Submit additional poems for $3 per poem.

For more info & our Submittable, click here: https://poetryinternationalonline.com/pi-prize-2/

01/24/2024

PI IN LA✈️

In celebration of PI turning 25, THIS FRIDAY (1/26) we’ll be hosting a reading at Beyond Baroque in Venice, CA featuring Sandra Alcosser, Mariano Zaro, Sarah Maclay! The reading is free to the public and can be attended in person & live on YouTube.

To RSVP or for more information about the event, click here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/celebrating-25-years-of-poetry-international-tickets-790507528297?aff=oddtdtcreator

We’re excited to celebrate with you this Friday at 8PM at Beyond Baroque!

12/31/2023

✨✏️ Congrats to our Summer 2023 Chapbook Competition co-winners:
C.W. Emerson (“The Thoracic Diaries”) and Lisa Krueger (“So American Re:”)

Their winning chapbooks will be featured in an upcoming edition of PI! Read more about our winners & our Summer and Winter Chapbook competitions on our site here: https://www.poetryinternationalonline.com/chapbooks-2/

12/11/2023

Congratulations to LEE PETERSON, winner of the 2023 PI Prize (chosen by judge Alexandra Lytton Regalado) ✨✏️

Peterson’s “Quartet for the End of Time” will appear in an upcoming issue of Poetry International!

More on Peterson & the PI Prize contest here: https://www.poetryinternationalonline.com/pi-prize-2/

09/27/2023

“While all autumn gathers

inside me, assembling like a row of girls, arms entwined, daughters and once-daughters,
remade continually, freed like caged birds to wind, each one named as they fly.”

Jody Rambo from “The Daughter”
https://www.poetryinternationalonline.com/poems/the-daughter/

09/26/2023

Award-winning poet Vandana Khanna joins us on 09/27 at 7PM for The Living Writers Series. She will be reading from her collected works including her recent collection, “Burning Like Her Own Planet” (Alice James Books), with a Q&A to follow. We look forward to seeing you in Love Library 430 this week!

https://mfa.sdsu.edu/community/living-writers

09/08/2023

Congratulations to our 2022 C.P. Cavafy Prize Winner, Sakinah Hofler, whose prize-winning poem “Grieve” (chosen by Sandra Alcosser) will be published in an upcoming edition of PI!🖋✨

https://www.poetryinternationalonline.com/cavafy-prize-2/

07/03/2023

Our annual Summer Tiny Chapbook Competition is well under way!✨

From now until September 1st, submit your best 8-16 pages for the chance to be published in an issue of Poetry International.

Need more info or need our Submittable?
Check out our site: poetryinternationalonline.com/chapbooks/

05/12/2023

In college I could see the future / coming and would often / pop out my contacts first, to soften / its least attractive feature. // If you’ll just give it half an hour, / grief will discover / you drawing steam-roses in the shower, / and join you, like a lover.

Eric McHenry from Crying With Glasses On
PI 20/21

05/10/2023

“and this season lasted one moment, like the pause / between dusk and darkness, between fury and peace, / but, for such as our earth is now, it lasted long.”

Derek Walcott from “The Seasonal of Phantasmal Peace”
PI 17

05/08/2023

“Strengthened, I branch out. / I rise toward the heavens / and blossom into fruit.”

Naana Banyiwa Horne from “Anchor”
https://www.poetryinternationalonline.com/poems/12045/.

05/05/2023

"The bird hiccups, tests its unpadlocked voice,
and again, and then soars into song-
calling, we imagine, its lungs to free its wings.
And calling, as was planned, the new-born
and migrating birds of spring
to closer and exposed view."

Spring custom by Ingrid de Kok
PI 7/8

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Poetry International Online has a brand new look! Explore our ✨SNAZZY✨ homepage that spotlights new and archival work, including Suphil Lee Park’s poem “A Little Light”: “Stand still. My little light, go around the world and spread joy. Make heavy hearts a little lighter.” poetryinternationalonline.com

Here's another video of Ilya Kaminsky read from the Russian at AWP.

Ilya Kaminsky reads from the Russian to a packed house celebrating the new book of translations by Marina Tsvetaeva. AWP Boston!

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Described by former U.S. Poet Laureate Juan Felipe Herrera as a “one of a kind” collection, and by Fady Joudah as “diving for pearls in pearl-infested waters.”