Poetry

Open call for Oxford Poetry Prize

Submissions remain open for the 2025 Oxford Poetry Prize, with just two weeks left before the deadline at midnight on Sunday, 31 August 2025. The Prize is awarded annually by

Palette Poetry Free Challenge 2025

Submission Guidelines: Please read carefully! [FREE] submissions are open from June 23, 2025 – July 13, 2025. For this challenge, please submit only once! We hope to offer this free

Two Poems by Damilola Oyedeji

Woman — you’re in a rhombus of cuffing vines, surrendered to a chokehold, this is the maze-mold that forms you, you’re oblivious of getting away or a way. this is

WEAK WINGS WOULD SOAR, SOMEDAY

Education is like quenching a thirst; parched throats, desert-like bodies roving minds scuttling through time’s lounge puddles on mind-fields, hollow down in drizzles modify into understanding as roots gather and

Six Poems by The Philosopher Poet

Windrush Squared Trains, planes, and automobiles. Transformers and transporters of livestock. First, they were ships but then they took flight. So fast and so far, that we barely felt the

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