The American Poetry Review

The American Poetry Review 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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Excerpts from our May/June issue are live now at aprweb.org, including this compelling number from . Dive in now, and sw...
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.

⏰ Time to submit! More info below. ⏰The Stanley Kunitz Memorial Prize honors the late Stanley Kunitz’s dedication to men...
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 All entries must be previously unpublished poems.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

🎉cover reveal!🎉 Our May/June issue features bold new work from Tracy K. Smith, Tina Cane, Benjamin Gucciardi, and so man...
04/29/2026

🎉cover reveal!🎉 Our May/June issue features bold new work from Tracy K. Smith, Tina Cane, Benjamin Gucciardi, and so many more. Read excerpts at aprweb.org now, or better yet, make a quality-of-life improvement and subscribe to the print edition here: https://simplecirc.com/subscribe/american-poetry-review

04/23/2026

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 via link in bio.

Happy Official Publication Day to Michael Bazzett for his collection Cloudwatcher — first winner of The Stern Prize! Ord...
04/07/2026

Happy Official Publication Day to Michael Bazzett for his collection Cloudwatcher — first winner of The Stern Prize! Order your copy here: https://the-american-poetry-review.myshopify.com/products/cloudwatcher-by-michael-bazzett-paperback-the-stern-prize-winner-2025

Winner of the inaugural 2025 Stern Prize from The American Poetry Review, Michael Bazzett’s astonishing Cloudwatcher is laced with wit and buoyed by a welcome eccentricity. These poems reside in an otherwhere of missing rivers and bottled starlight, where the sea leaves cryptic letters for beachcombers on shore, where rain can “wipe the name clean off a mountain.” Bazzett is a master of building a world slightly parallel to this one, where to be imprisoned in a “cage of one’s own desires” comes replete with cedar shavings, feeding tray, and water bottle. With its evocative imagery and crackling energy, Cloudwatcher offers the life-affirming reminder that “until / you crack a bit, you can’t be over-joyed.

Excerpts from our March/April issue are live right now at aprweb.org, including this one from . C’mon by and make a new ...
03/31/2026

Excerpts from our March/April issue are live right now at aprweb.org, including this one from . C’mon by and make a new beginning for your mind. 🔗 in bio.

The Stanley Kunitz Memorial Prize honors the late Stanley Kunitz’s dedication to mentoring poets. The winning poem will ...
03/19/2026

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: https://americanpoetryreview.submittable.com/submit

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