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The American Poetry Review is dedicated to reaching a worldwide audience with a diverse array of the best contemporary poetry and literary criticism.
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08/21/2026

Do visit aprweb.org to check out highlights from our July/August issue, like this one from Hieu Minh Nguyen’s cover suite.

07/20/2026

Now more than ever: APR submissions never close. Right now we’re open for general submissions as well as our two annual book prizes. Learn more and submit your work at americanpoetryreview.submittable.com

07/14/2026

This C. Russell Price poem is one of three included in our July/August 2026 issue, along with so much other great new work. Scoop it up while it’s available at the link in our bio.

07/07/2026

Learn more and submit your work here: https://americanpoetryreview.submittable.com/submit/306584/the-stern-prize

07/02/2026

Congratulations to Claire Wahmanholm, winner of the 2026 Kunitz Prize for her poem “Overwinter.”

06/29/2026

🎉cover reveal!🎉 Our July/August issue features incredible new work from Hieu Minh Nguyen, Cole Swensen, C. Russell Price and many more. Read excerpts at aprweb.org now, or better yet, make a quality-of-life improvement and subscribe to the print edition: https://simplecirc.com/subscribe/american-poetry-review

06/22/2026

⏰ Don’t delay! Submissions are open now! ⏰

The American Poetry Review is happy to announce that the 2027 APR/Honickman First Book Prize will be judged by Terrance Hayes.

Terrance Hayes’s newest books include a collection of poems, So To Speak (Penguin, 2023), a collection of essays, Watch Your Language (Penguin, 2023), American Sonnets for My Past And Future Assassin (Penguin, 2018) and To Float In The Space Between: Drawings and Essays in Conversation with Etheridge Knight (Wave, 2018). To Float In The Space Between was winner of the Poetry Foundation’s 2019 Pegasus Award for Poetry Criticism; American Sonnets for My Past And Future Assassin won the Hurston/Wright 2019 Award for Poetry. Hayes is a Silver Professor of English at New York University.

The prize of $3,000, with an introduction by the judge and distribution of the winning book by Copper Canyon Press through Consortium, will be awarded in 2027 with publication of the book in the same year. The author will receive a standard book publishing contract, with royalties paid in addition to the $3,000 prize.

Learn more & submit your work via 🔗 in bio.

06/17/2026

Malik Thompson graces our May/June issue, and that’s just the beginning. Head to aprweb.org and read more excerpts from the issue, whether you’re waiting for the train or not.

05/21/2026

Excerpts from our May/June issue are live now at aprweb.org, including this compelling number from . Dive in now, and swim to shore.

05/12/2026

⏰ Time to submit! More info below. ⏰

The Stanley Kunitz Memorial Prize honors the late Stanley Kunitz’s dedication to mentoring poets. The winning poem will appear on the feature page of the September/October issue of The American Poetry Review, and the poet will receive a prize of $1,000. All entrants will receive a copy of the magazine. Poets may submit one to three poems per entry (totaling no more than three pages) with a $15 entry fee by May 15, 2026. No limit on number of entries per poet. Previous winners of the Kunitz Prize include Ocean Vuong, Alex Dimitrov, Nicole Sealey, Jane Wong, Elly Bookman, Maggie Queeney, Jared Harel, Katie Peterson, Ruth Madievsky, Iris McCloughan, Joy Priest, Casey Thayer, and Susan Nguyen.

Guidelines
1. Poets must be under 40 years of age.
2. All entries must be previously unpublished poems.
3. Multiple entries are acceptable; however each entry must be accompanied by a reading fee.
4. Entry fee covers up to three poems, totaling no more than three pages.
5. Contest entries must be received on or before May 15, 2026.
6. Contest results will be announced by July 1, 2026.

Learn more and submit your work here: americanpoetryreview.submittable.com/submit

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