The Poetry Box

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Your Partner in Publishing Poetry

“Poetry is what in a poem makes you laugh, cry, prickle, be silent, makes your toe nails twinkle, makes you want to do this or that or nothing, makes you know that you are not alone in the unknown world, that your bliss and suffering is forever shared and forever all your own.” ―Dylan Thomas

Here at The Poetry Box®, we strongly believe great literature is meant to be accessible and enjoyed by everyone. Poetry is all around us. We invite you to share in the experience, to become an active witness to the beauty, the struggle, the joy, the sorrow and the ordinary brilliance of life. Through these carefully crafted observances we call poems, we as humans are led to the well of compassion and invited to get drunk on its language.

As a boutique publishing company, The Poetry Box® enjoys providing a platform for both established and emerging poets and writers to share their work — their words, their imagination, their artistry — with the world. We understand that in an ever-evolving publishing world, a one-size-fits-all paradigm doesn't work for every writer. Therefore, we offer various options to meet your publishing goals and present your work in the highest aesthetic possible, in a book you will be proud to share.

We invite all voices, and especially those that have been historically marginalized or under-heard to submit and partner with us.

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White Sail at Midnight

White Sail at Midnight by Ginny Lowe Connors— "A quality of attentive wonder charges and characterizes the beautifully crafted, thought-provoking poems in Ginny Connors’s White Sail at Midnight. Through these meditations about personal experiences, relationships, and the lives of others, Connors explores the reality and mystery of existing in this ...

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Chaos & Calm

Chaos & Calm by Angelika Quirk— "Chaos & Calm awes me with its exquisite vastness, the way it distills the scope of history into the intimacy of a life. Restless, these poems excavate the ruins of war and childhood, crisscross the Atlantic, hopscotch the 'Babylonian glitter' of famed cities. " ...

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Lamplight

Lamplight by Cathy Cain   "...offers dramatic images to pitch opposites against each other. We find sparkling songs and savage blues, lamplight and dark. Her lyric poetry balances shadows of grief and time. Narrative poems, with touches of surrealism, explore loss, illness, and madness. She offers lights in a hospital window ...

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Hags on Tractors

Hags on Tractors by Penny Johnson — In these memoir-textured poems, Penny Johnson puts us in the driver’s seat—of a tractor that is— and shows us what it means to be a mature, rural woman grappling with the land and its seasonal weather changes, as well as the unique challenge ...

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SKULL

SKULL by Amy Baskin "begins with the disorientation of an accident which then moves into its aftermath—the squint-eyed way we navigate a world of dark and light post-trauma, trying to survive what happens to, around, and inside of us." —Justin Hamm, author of O Death and Drinking Guinness with the Dead     ...

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Witness

Witness by Shawn Pittard is an intimate and unflinching exploration of family, love, aging, dementia, caregiving and death. These poems are meditations on the changing sense of identity we experience in older age which, ultimately, reveals one’s unique, intrinsic character. By caring for his declining mother, the poet is guided ...

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Congratulations to the Winners & Finalists
of The Poetry Box Chapbook Prize, 2024

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