Congrats to Liza Flum, author of Hover, named the winner of 2026 Nassar Poetry Prize, an award that honors Upstate New York poets!
Learn more about Flum’s Hover and The Nassar Poetry Prize here: online2.utica.edu/news-events/...
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We are extending the deadline to the 2026 Broadside Poetry Contest to April 30th!
Please send us your best work!
The prize is $1000 and 20 printed Broadsides. Judged by Rodrigo Toscano, author of WHITMAN. CANNONBALL. PUEBLA.
We are excited to read your submissions!
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John Cross’s WHAT BLEAK ANGELS CARRIED YOUR BED opens in exile and st(r)ays there. The character Mathias, a trickster who opens this collection, finds a foothold in cosmic disorder.
Pre-order your copy of Cross’s WHAT BLEAK ANGELS CARRIED YOUR BED:
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We are delighted to celebrate Sam Creely for their collection, INVENTORYS, being chosen for the list of Best new Poetry Books by The New York Public Library!
Read the full list from NYPL here:
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Congrats to Rodrigo Toscano for his collection, WHITMAN. CANNONBALL. PUEBLA., being chosen as one of The New York Public Library’s Best New Poetry Books!
Order your copy of Toscano’s WHITMAN. CANNONBALL. PUBELA. here: press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/au...
Maria Nazos examines the life force that continues to pulse relentlessly through a fragmented world, that enables us to flow, breathe, and regenerate, even through grief and loss.
Pre-order your copy of maria nazos’s PULSE here: press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
LM Rivera’s THE BOOK OF THE RED ABSURD is a poetic autobiography seen through the lens of literature, cinema, theory, history, mythology, and demonology.
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Join us in applauding Liza Flum for Hover becoming a finalist for the 2026 Lammy Awards!
Hover explores sexuality, love, reproductive choice, and infertility in sonnets and expansive prose meditations.
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We are delighted to celebrate jason b crawford’s YEET! becoming a finalist for the 2026 Lammy Awards for LGBTQ+ poetry!
YEET! envisions the Black community lifted off the earth and set free towards the stars.
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Join our Omnidawn authors at the AWP Conference! Find jason b. crawford on March 6th from 6-8pm at SAY PLEASE, Kinky Queer Poetry Reading @AWP, The Club Car.
Pick up a copy of crawford's YEET! here: press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
Prosody is the study and/or application of techniques that enhance the music and power of your poetry or prose.
Join 2026 Prosody class/workshop from 4-12, 2026 - 5-17, 2026, Sundays 10am to 2pm, PST.
Led by David Koehn w/ Rusty Morrison
Apply today!
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Announcing 2026 Omnidawn Single Poem Broadside Contest!
judge: Rodrigo Toscano
dates: March 1 - April 16
prize: $1,000 and 20 framable Broadsides
Fee:
1 poem for $14.
2 poems for $17.
3 poems for $30.
One 8 1/2 x 11 page. Show us what you can do!
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PS - I’ve just approved the final galley—stay tuned for the release from @omnidawn.bsky.social. Publication date coming soon.
See you at #AWP!
Join our wonderful Omnidawn authors for the upcoming AWP conference in Baltimore! Come to Omnidawn's Reading of Strange Poetry for Even Stranger Times at Cedar House on March 7th!
Find their incredible work here: www.omnidawn.com/awp-2026/
In his review of Liza Flum's Hover, published in The Gay & Lesbian Review, Dale Boyer writes: Flum’s best poems have an unmistakable power. In a passage from the poem “Memorial to a marriage,” Flum writes persuasively."
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José Felipe Alvergue's en el norte / soy del sur has a starred review on Booklist!
Read Diego Báez's incredible review of en el norte / soy del sur in Booklist's upcoming issue: www.booklistonline.com/products/982...
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We're extending the 2026 Omnidawn 1st/2nd Poetry Book Contest!
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judge: Brody Parrish Craig
deadline: EXTENDED - February 28, 2026 at 11:59 pm Pacific
contest fee: $30
prize: $3000, publication, and 20 copies
We look forward to reading your work!
Join @omnidawn.bsky.social & me at another #AWP offsite reading.
BYOB. Deets below.
Featuring: Maria Nazos, David Koehn, @mawsheinwin.bsky.social, @rodrigo-toscano.bsky.social, Laynie Browne, Liza Flum, Elizabeth Robinson, @alohajha.bsky.social, Molly Bendall, & Ewa Chrusciel.
#AWP2026
We are excited to share with our community exciting literary news: Split Lip Magazine and Friends is holding a benefit reading for CHARM at AWP, featuring incredible writers such as jason b. crawford.
RSVP here: charmlitmag.org
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Poems set in a state of heavy surveillance as the speaker navigates uncertainty and shifting realities.
Read BOMB Magazine’s interview featuring Molly Bendall, author of Turncoat:
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Deepwater considers the fractured reality of living in a queer disabled body and how we might find freedom, safety, and spiritual healing despite grief.
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"Omnidawn made it easy for me to understand what I needed, answered SO MANY questions I had as a first time author, and prioritized my creative freedom throughout the publishing process! I can’t wait to read manuscripts & select the next Omnidawn author!"
-Brody Parrish Craig, judge of contest
Poetry that considers the nature of relationships in an age mediated by social media and impacted by violence.
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INVENTORYS takes as its point of departure the voyage, shipwreck, and eventual excavation of the Spanish trade vessel El Nuevo Constante.
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A collection of poetry showcasing the diversity of subjects and forms in Yau’s writing.
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Experimental lyric and narrative poetry that brings together philosophy, theology, and humor.
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Poetic fables that consider a future Greater Americas that blends the cultures of people across the hemisphere.
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Crawford explores the lines between blood and flower, between histories, inevitabilities, and possibilities.
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Congratulations to James McCorkle! Seven Cycles is the winner of the 2025 Omnidawn Chapbook Contest.
And congrats to the finalists!
煦 NA
Los Angeles, CA
Daniel Kuriakose
Brooklyn, NY
Susan Lewis
New York, NY
Christopher Nelson
Grinnell, IA
Anca Roncea
Cerritos, CA
Mark your calendar to join our Virtual 2025 Fall book launch with Evan Karp on Sunday, Jan 25, 2026 @ 1:00 pm Pacific.
Free! Register in advance...
