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The Orchards Poetry Journal The Orchards Editors:

Karen Kelsay
Jenna Sumpter

Inspired by the small plot of apple trees near Cambridge, England, where writers have gathered for years with their books and pens, we welcome you to pull up a chair and enjoy poetry in the orchard.

https://orchardspoetry.com/Our Winter Poetry Journal is live! You can view it online or order a copy for 17.00. This iss...
15/12/2023

https://orchardspoetry.com/
Our Winter Poetry Journal is live! You can view it online or order a copy for 17.00. This issue has 191 pages! Curl up with a mug of hot chocolate and a blanket while you read this excellent selection of poetry!

02/10/2023

The Orchards is now open for submissions to fill the winter journal! This year, we will close once we have enough poems for the next issue. Thank you for supporting us!

19/07/2023
This beauty is now available at Kelsay Books and Amazon for $17.00. With 189 pages of excellent poetry, and an interview...
18/07/2023

This beauty is now available at Kelsay Books and Amazon for $17.00. With 189 pages of excellent poetry, and an interview with Rebecca Brock, the featured poet from the Kelsay Books and International Women's Writing Guild Women's contest, you can't go wrong. Please help support our journal; we have no reading fees and give two cash awards plus select three Pushcart Prize nominees with each issue. Free verse and formal poetry are accepted along with previously published work. Submissions for the Winter issue begin in October. The journal is available in a free digital version (see The Orchard's website) and paperback.

The Orchards Poetry Journal is an anthology that is released bi-annually.

This issue features the following poets:

Rebecca Brock
Nikki Ummel
Kristen Holt-Browning
Lori Howe
Jacqueline Coleman-Fried
Mitzi Dorton
Hilary Biehl
Juan Pablo Mobili
Daniel Lusk
Ray Malone
Peycho Kanev
Michele Rappoport
Al Ortolani
Andrew Mauzey
Maximilian Speicher
Adina Polatsek
Glenn Irvin
Jeannie E. Roberts
Robert Knox
Anna Evas
Alexander Etheridge
Jeffrey Thompson
Bailey Parker
Elizabeth Galewski
Laura Vitcova
Amy DeBellis
Daniel Brennan
Megan Wildhood
Chris Dahl
Don Niederfrank
Phil Huffy
Ginger Dehlinger
Erica M. Breen
Kelley White
Samuel Samba
Angela Hoffman
Jean Janicke
Bill Howell
Jeremy Gadd
Leslie Schultz
Leslie Hodge
Douglas Cole
Barbara Anna Gaiardoni
Miguel Alfonso Ramos
Mary Beth Hines
Garret Keizer
Jason L. Martin
Diane Lee Moomey
Erin Jamieson
Tara Menon
Deborah J. Shore
Susan Lendroth
Laurence de B. Anderson
Douglas MacDonald
Arvilla Fee
Eric Colburn
Dana Stamps, II.
Anthony Knight
Jacqueline Coleman-Fried
Len Krisak
Mark Clemens
B.R. Strahan
Xiadi Zhai
S.D. Brown
Angie Minkin
Wayne Lee
Gretch Sando
Prosper C. Ìféányí
Elinor Ann Walker
Marjorie Maddox
Shaheen Dil
Bobby Parrott
Donald Sellitti
Steve Bucher
Grace Martin
Molly Likovich
Evan Gurney
Michele Rappoport
E.E. King
Eric Colburn
Mary Beth Hines
Dave Malone
Jennifer Horne
Ursula Shepherd
Krystle Eilen
Mary Chris Bailey
Matthew Cory
Wren Jones
Carla Martin-Wood
Carey Jobe
Bill Howell
Rob Loughran
Lisa Guedea Carreño
Wren Jones
Coral Inéz
Mary Ellen Shaughan
Linda Hughes
Charles Leggett
Charlie Robert
Purbasha Roy
CL Bledsoe
Ken Cathers
Ray Malone
Bill Howell
Roger Desy
Julie Allyn Johnson
Lorraine Caputo
Kris Spencer
George Amabile
Christel Maass
Louis Faber
Adina Polatsek
Jan Wiezorek
Anna Sochocky
Ruth Towne
Helga Kidder

The Orchards Poetry Journal is now live! 91 poets have sent us the most remarkable poems, and we have wrapped them up in...
10/12/2022

The Orchards Poetry Journal is now live! 91 poets have sent us the most remarkable poems, and we have wrapped them up in a paperback or hardcover journal for the holidays. Get cozy, grab a warm cup of cocoa, and then curl up with the 165-page Winter Issue.

We are so excited to announce the Winter Issue of The Orchards Poetry Journal! It is our most extensive collection of formal and free-verse poems yet. 165 pages in a paperback or a hard-bound book for your library or coffee table. Click the link below to read the journal online or the second link to purchase a physical book.
Thanks to co-editor Jenna Sumpter and Delisa Hargrove for all the hard work they have put in to make this issue so lovely. And thanks to all 91 outstanding poets who have taken the time to submit their work!

https://orchardspoetrycom.files.wordpress.com/2022/12/orchards-winter-2022-digital-dec-8.pdf

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This issue features the following poets:

David Murphy
William R. Stoddart
Sarette Danae
Jennifer Stewart
Kate Deimling
David Henson
Brandon Burdette
Susan McLean
N.T. Chambers
Catherine Arra
Noah Berlatsky
Sarah Dickenson Snyder
Marzelle Robertson
Bill Howell
Linda Gamble
David Southward
Sally Nacker
Leslie Hodge
John Whitney Steele
Bart Edelman
Marjorie Maddox
Eric Colburn
Gary Glauber
Wendy Freborg
Angela Hoffman
Mike James
Autumn Newman
Lindsay Rockwell
Marceline White
Jenna Le
Mary Beth Hines
Robert Walton
Tina Barry
Jason Brightwell
John Schneider
Claudia Gary
Katrina Hays
Jen Feroze
Cliff Saunders
Jean-Sebastien Surena
Rebecca Yancey
Mark J. Mitchell
John Dorroh
Sandi Stromberg
Diane Elayne Dees
Karen Greenbaum-Maya
Deborah-Zenha Adams
Tim Suermondt
Zach Czaia
Elizabeth Cranford Garcia
Mark D. Bennion
Victoria Lau
Catherine Chandler
Bill Griffin
Matthew Cory
Jane Blanchard
Jacqueline Coleman-Fried
Charlotte Innes
M.E. Goelzer
Michael Salcman
George Freek
Angelo D’Amato, Jr.
Pamela Wax
Gabo Alvarado-Lieber
Danny P. Barbare
Lara Dolphin
Paul Buchheit
Arvilla Fee
Jennifer Stewart
Donald Wheelock
Michael Estabrook
Carey Jobe
Wendy Sloan
Eileen Trauth
Sharon Whitehill
P.C. Scheponik
Lisa Barnett
Tina Barry
Leslie Schultz
R.T. Castleberry
Kathy Pon
Evelyn Asher
Matthew King
Vivian Wagner
G.H. Mosson
Gary Beck
Donald Wheelock
Nicholas Kriefall
Lisa St. John
Sheila Lynch-Benttinen
Judy Lorenzen
Elaine Koplow
Thomas DeFreitas
Carla Martin-Wood
Jane Ebihara
Allen Ireland
Shannon Lodoen
Tom Laughlin
Shutta Crum

We are so excited to announce the Winter Issue of The Orchards Poetry Journal! It is our most extensive collection of fo...
10/12/2022

We are so excited to announce the Winter Issue of The Orchards Poetry Journal! It is our most extensive collection of formal and free-verse poems yet. 165 pages in a paperback or a hard-bound book for your library or coffee table. Click the link below to read the journal online or the second link to purchase a physical book.
Thanks to co-editor Jenna Sumpter and Delisa Hargrove for all the hard work they have put in to make this issue so lovely. And thanks to all 91 outstanding poets who have taken the time to submit their work!

https://orchardspoetrycom.files.wordpress.com/2022/12/orchards-winter-2022-digital-dec-8.pdf

https://orchardspoetry.com/

This issue features the following poets:

David Murphy
William R. Stoddart
Sarette Danae
Jennifer Stewart
Kate Deimling
David Henson
Brandon Burdette
Susan McLean
N.T. Chambers
Catherine Arra
Noah Berlatsky
Sarah Dickenson Snyder
Marzelle Robertson
Bill Howell
Linda Gamble
David Southward
Sally Nacker
Leslie Hodge
John Whitney Steele
Bart Edelman
Marjorie Maddox
Eric Colburn
Gary Glauber
Wendy Freborg
Angela Hoffman
Mike James
Autumn Newman
Lindsay Rockwell
Marceline White
Jenna Le
Mary Beth Hines
Robert Walton
Tina Barry
Jason Brightwell
John Schneider
Claudia Gary
Katrina Hays
Jen Feroze
Cliff Saunders
Jean-Sebastien Surena
Rebecca Yancey
Mark J. Mitchell
John Dorroh
Sandi Stromberg
Diane Elayne Dees
Karen Greenbaum-Maya
Deborah-Zenha Adams
Tim Suermondt
Zach Czaia
Elizabeth Cranford Garcia
Mark D. Bennion
Victoria Lau
Catherine Chandler
Bill Griffin
Matthew Cory
Jane Blanchard
Jacqueline Coleman-Fried
Charlotte Innes
M.E. Goelzer
Michael Salcman
George Freek
Angelo D’Amato, Jr.
Pamela Wax
Gabo Alvarado-Lieber
Danny P. Barbare
Lara Dolphin
Paul Buchheit
Arvilla Fee
Jennifer Stewart
Donald Wheelock
Michael Estabrook
Carey Jobe
Wendy Sloan
Eileen Trauth
Sharon Whitehill
P.C. Scheponik
Lisa Barnett
Tina Barry
Leslie Schultz
R.T. Castleberry
Kathy Pon
Evelyn Asher
Matthew King
Vivian Wagner
G.H. Mosson
Gary Beck
Donald Wheelock
Nicholas Kriefall
Lisa St. John
Sheila Lynch-Benttinen
Judy Lorenzen
Elaine Koplow
Thomas DeFreitas
Carla Martin-Wood
Jane Ebihara
Allen Ireland
Shannon Lodoen
Tom Laughlin
Shutta Crum

Just a few more weeks until we close the journal to submissions on November 30th.
20/11/2022

Just a few more weeks until we close the journal to submissions on November 30th.

~ We will be open for submissions on September 1st. In each issue, we choose three poems to nominate for the Pushcart Prize. The journal is released biannually, in print, and online. New! In each…

https://kelsaybooks.com/pages/kelsay-books-womens-poetry-contest Our second annual Women's Poetry Contest is open! Pl...
07/10/2022

https://kelsaybooks.com/pages/kelsay-books-womens-poetry-contest Our second annual Women's Poetry Contest is open! Please send your poems! Cash awards.

Sponsored by Kelsay Books in partnership with the International Women's Writing Guild ~~~~ WHO IS ELIGIBLE TO ENTER: Women poets CONTEST DATES: Entry: September 15 – November 30, 2022 First-round reading period: December 1–14 Finalist reading period for the judge: December 15–31 Winners announ...

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