Poets & Writers Magazine

For more than twenty years, Poets & Writers Magazine has been a trusted companion to writers who take their vocation seriously. Within its pages, our readers find provocative essays on the literary life, practical guidance for getting published and pursuing writing careers, in-depth profiles of poets, fiction writers, and writers of creative nonfiction, and conversation among fellow professionals.

Poets & Writers Magazine

EDITOR’S Note

Reactions • COVER STORIES: THE YEAR IN REVIEW

Lambda Expands Writers in Schools

CONTRIBUTORS

Page One • Where New And Noteworthy Books Begin

A Place Built by Poets for Poets

Phishing Schemes Target Writers

Small Press Points

Literary MagNet

Anitra Budd of Coffee House Press

TheTimeIsNow • Writing Prompts and Exercises

A Monstrous Silence • CARETAKING AND WRITING IN THE PRESENCE OF DEATH

WRITING PAST BURNOUT

OXYGEN IN ASH

HOW TO KEEP GOING

SMALL STARTS

TINY DOABLE THINGS

LIKE COMING HOME • FOUR WRITERS ON THE PUSH AND PULL OF OTHER ARTS

writers’ Demons and Angels

A Freeing Space • Our Seventeenth Annual Look at Debut Poets

Threa Almontaser • THE WILD FOX OF YEMEN

Desiree C. Bailey • WHAT NOISE AGAINST THE CANE

W. J. Herbert • DEAR SPECIMEN

Ana Portnoy Brimmer • TO LOVE AN ISLAND

Cheswayo Mphanza • THE RINEHART FRAMES

Shangyang Fang • BURYING THE MOUNTAIN

Aurielle Marie • GUMBO YA YA

Dennis James Sweeney • IN THE ANTARCTIC CIRCLE

Moheb Soliman • HOMES

Devon Walker-Figueroa • PHILOMATH

AgentAdvice • Monica Odom of Odom Media Management

Still So Much to Say • HONORING A LOVED ONE’S LITERARY LEGACY

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Recent Winners

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