Genre: Poetry

List og Land Northern Lights Residency

September/October 2025

The List og Land Northern Lights Residency offered three-week residencies from October 1 to October 24 and from November 1 to November 24 at Laugaból Farm on Arnarfjörður, a fjord in Iceland, to poets, fiction writers, creative nonfiction writers, and translators. Residents who lodged at the farmhouse were provided with a double-occupancy room, two shared bathrooms, a full kitchen, a dining room, and a living room.

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RESIDENCY
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Event Date: 
January 6, 2026
Rolling Admissions: 
ignore
Application Deadline: 
January 6, 2026
Financial Aid?: 
no
Financial Aid Application Deadline: 
January 6, 2026
Free Admission: 
no
Contact Information: 

List og Land Northern Lights Residency, Laugaból 0, 466 Bildadalur, Westfjörds, Iceland. (323) 552-1294. Leslie Schwartz, Cofounder.

Leslie Schwartz
Cofounder
Contact City: 
Arnarfjörður
Country: 
IS
Genre: 
Poetry
Fiction
Creative Nonfiction
Translation

Kaatsbaan Weekend Retreats

September/October 2025

The Kaatsbaan Weekend Retreats offered three-day residencies from October 3 to October 5 and from November 21 to November 23 at Kaatsbaan Cultural Park, a 153-acre artist sanctuary in Tivoli, New York, to poets, fiction writers, creative nonfiction writers, and translators. Residents were provided with private motel-style rooms, which included a desk, an en suite bathroom, and views of the surrounding countryside, in the Dancers’ Inn.

Type: 
RESIDENCY
Ignore Event Date Field?: 
yes
Event Date: 
January 6, 2026
Rolling Admissions: 
yes
Application Deadline: 
January 6, 2026
Financial Aid?: 
no
Financial Aid Application Deadline: 
January 6, 2026
Free Admission: 
no
Contact Information: 

Kaatsbaan Weekend Retreats, Kaatsbaan Cultural Park, P.O. Box 482, Tivoli, NY 12583. (845) 757-5106, ext. 17. Adam Weinert, Residency and Events Manager.

Adam Weinert
Residency and Events Manager
Contact City: 
Tivoli
Contact State: 
NY
Contact Zip / Postal Code: 
12583
Country: 
US
Genre: 
Poetry
Fiction
Creative Nonfiction
Translation

SoCal Poets Lester Graves Lennon and Sehba Sarwar

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In this Poetry.LA video, Altadena co-poets laureate Lester Graves Lennon and Sehba Sarwar read a selection of their poems and speak about how the Eaton Fire has affected their lives and community. Lennon and Sarwar were recently awarded a fellowship from the Academy of American Poets to launch their poetry project “After the Fires: Healing from Histories.”

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Poetry
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Lester Graves Lennon
Sehba Sarwar
poet laureate
Poetry.LA interview series
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interview
2025

The Poem I Wish I Had Read: For What Binds Us

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“There are names for what binds us: / strong forces, weak forces. / Look around, you can see them.” Danusha Laméris reads and talks about “For What Binds Us” by Jane Hirshfield and shares why this poem is meaningful to her for “The Poem I Wish I Had Read” series in this video from the Boutelle-Day Poetry Center at Smith College.

Genre: 
Poetry
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Danusha Laméris
Jane Hirshfield
The Poem I Wish I Had Read Series
Smith College
For What Binds Us

Beyond Stability

The Time Is Now
8.12.25

“I often think of poetry as something that is beyond the true and the false,” says poet and critic Michael Leong on what he feels is true about the art of poetry in a Literary Hub interview with Peter Mishler. “Poetry’s strangeness is so tied up with how it productively messes with what we previously thought were stable truths and stable falsehoods.” Taking inspiration from this notion that poetry exists in a space that is “beyond the true and the false,” write a poem that explores a seemingly stable truth or falsehood, one that you may be interested in interrogating and undermining. Experiment with using surrealist imagery, playing with expanding far out into the white space of the page to stretch further into the incongruity of your subject.

Vivian Shipley Poetry Award

Connecticut Poetry Society
Entry Fee: 
$15
Deadline: 
September 30, 2025
A prize of $1,000 and publication in Connecticut River Review and on the Connecticut Poetry Society website is given annually for a single poem. Brendan Walsh will judge. Using only the online submission system, submit up to three poems of no more than 80 lines each with a $15 entry fee by September 30. Visit the website for complete guidelines.

Poetry Contest

One Page
Entry Fee: 
$25
Deadline: 
September 30, 2025
A prize of $2,000 is given annually for a single poem. A second-place prize of $1,000 is also given. Mark Graham, Monique Jonath, Mridvi Khetan, and Ann Tinkham will judge. Using only the online submission system, submit a one-page poem and a cover letter with a $25 entry fee by September 30. All entries are considered for publication. Visit the website for the required entry form and complete guidelines.

Tom Howard/Margaret Reid Poetry Contest

Winning Writers
Entry Fee: 
$25
Deadline: 
October 1, 2025
Two prizes of $3,500 each, two-year gift certificates for membership to the literary database Duotrope, and publication on the Winning Writers website are given annually for a poem in any style and a poem that either rhymes or is written in a traditional style. Briana Grogan, Michal ‘MJ’ Jones, and Dare Williams will judge. Using only the online submission system, submit any number of poems of up to 250 lines each with a $25 entry fee for each submission of up to three poems by October 1. Visit the website for complete guidelines.

Fresh Voices Fellowship

Epiphany
Entry Fee: 
$0
Deadline: 
November 1, 2025
A prize of $2,000 and publication in Epiphany is given annually for a poem or a group of poems, a work of fiction, or a work of creative nonfiction. The winner will also be offered a one-year editorial fellowship at Epiphany. BIPOC writers who do not have an advanced degree in creative writing and are not currently enrolled in a degree-granting program are eligible. Using only the online submission system, submit up to five pages of poetry or prose and a cover letter by November 1. There is no entry fee. Visit the website for complete guidelines.

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