Stereotypes have long defined the region. Parton showed the world its true heart — and offered a challenge

Two new Worthington poems fold mother memory into Appalachian elegy for her late mentor, Jeff Daniel Marion: blue sheets, a felled sycamore.

& the heady poems of mythic black folk both floating to surface in ambush of sky

Three new collections by three remarkable poets

Documentary poems combine poetic techniques (imagination) with nontraditional elements (inquiry) such as journalism, government reports, interviews, political and/or religious tracts, advertising, cou...

I concentrated on the view outside the back window. America, have you ever noticed how well you stretch the imagination?

Water. Witness. Word., by Marianne Worthington **This is currently a PRE-ORDER title. Forthcoming Publication Date: June 23, 2026** Water. Witness. Word. is a meditation on loves and griefs of many sh...

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Spend some time in a workshop setting writing new poems, revising old ones, and sharing your poems with others in class. This workshop will focus on the basics, such as […]

Something Is Not Right My neighbors never turn off the light in an upstairs room, so one eye seems always open in the face of that house which is how ducks sleep, and dolphins, and wary parents of …

Spend some time in a workshop setting writing new poems, revising old ones, and sharing your poems with others in class. This workshop will focus on the basics, such as […]

IN A NUTSHELL: AN ANTHOLOGY OF MICROPOEMS Julia Caroline Knowlton, Guest Editor Mark Danowsky, ONE ART Editor ~ 2026 ~ ~~~ Editor’s Note: It has been a privilege to curate this anthology of very sh…

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Today’s poem is Six Hours Lost, Land Between the Lakes by Kathleen Driskell.

Introducing a new program at Belle Point Press

This course combines generative writing and discussion using a book in common. Raye Hendrix’s poetry collection What Good Is Heaven will be our model for writing and reading poems that hurt us and hea...

The president’s latest criticism of museums is a thinly veiled attempt to erase Black history.

Hub City Press, the publishing arm of the Hub City Writers Project, publishes books of literary fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction, regional nonfiction, nature, and art. We are seeking new and extra...

Adult Contests SUBMISSIONS OPEN NOW! DEADLINE: JULY 31, 2025. We have two contests adults are eligble for. Grand Prix Poetry Contest: Open to all U.S. poets aged 18 and above, this contest welcomes…

malformed calves      foaming at the mouth      a creek that bubbles

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“Writing Place: A generative poetry class” welcomes all levels of poets/writers who want to explore how setting, context, memory, and lived experiences can be communicated in poems. We’ll study model ...

The prose poem as we know it today was “invented” as a type of subversive activity: to escape the rules of strict meter and rhyme that defined most poetry in […]

I do not know whether it is morning         or mourning

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The Makery ONLINE WRITING STUDIO Offering three-week intensive online writing courses. The Makery at Hindman Settlement School is an online studio designed to nurture your imagination in a neighborly, supportive community.  Inside The Makery, you’ll find opportunities to study with Guggenheim Fellows, Yale’s Younger Poets, Poets Laureate, Weatherford and Chaffin Award recipients, acclaimed editors, intrepid … The Makery Read More »

That you will leave, like all / things leave, that you have left,

The narrow stall recedes like Van Gogh’s room