Congrats Maya!

Maya, who posts at Bird Droppings, has had her poem God is Man chosen by Word Cataylst Magazine to be included in their chapbook.Check out Maya's work by clicking here.

The poets over at Austin New Blog would love if you stop in and check out their work. This is a multi-person blog that covers many different kinds of poetry including audio poems,videos, and picture poems. They are also doing a chain poem with The Austin World Poem Project.

Stop on by and meet these innovative poets.

Spotlight Series Returns

Anyone remember the Spotlight Series?

Check out the poets featured already by heading to the PWB Archives. Well, I've been really lax in finding more poets to feature. I'm going to look through our list and find some soon.

Be on the lookout for the next PWB Spotlight Poet.

One of our poets is in the middle of a Poem a Day project that ends January 6, 2009.Click here to visit Epiphany: Amour Habito Intus Vos to check out Cynthia's work. Best of luck to her on this project!

Anyone else writing a poem a day?

Blog Manager,


Sara

Missing Writer's Island already? Try this new site!

You can now find writing prompts at Truth is Freedom. Tell them PWB sent you.

PWB would like to extend best wishes to this new project.

August Poetry Postcard Fest

Want to take part in sending your poetry around the world to other poets? Then check out the August Poetry Postcard Fest.

Congrats, Sara Diane Doyle !

PWB sends out our congratualtions to Sara Diane Doyle for being named Poet Laureate of Poetic Asides. Read more by clicking here.

Visit Poet Hound Today

Poet Hound recently featured the work of Massachusetts poet GRH who writes one line poems at his blog, Falling Off the Mountian.

Click here to read Poet Hound's review.

Falling Off the Mountain is a newer poetry blog and a new member of PWB, so go show your support by stopping over there to welcome him to the blogosphere.

Honeycackle will be starting a new project to post a poem a day. Stop in and tell her what you think of her efforts.

I just realized you can submit poetry to Associated Content. Anyone ever try it?

Click here to see a list of articles about poetry that are user submitted.


List of poems on AC.

SFPA Grandmaster nominates

The Science Fiction Poetry Association has announced their nominees for Grandmaster 2008. The list includes Ray Bradbury, Joe Haldeman, David C. Kopaska-Merkel, Marge Simon and Steve Sneyd.

To read more about this poets click here.

Call for Poetry

Check out the July/August edition of Poets and Writers Classifieds by clicking here and find out places you can submit your poetry.

Cover Letters

Robert Lee Brewer discusses what a cover letter should look like when submitting poetry. Read the article by clicking here.

What Can You Do to Help Popularize Poetry? is the question posed by poet Devrie Paradowski at her blog. Cruise on by to read her thoughts.

Devrie Paradowski is the author of A Ray Squeezed Through, which you can buy here.

Spend the summer on The Writer's Island

From now until October, The Writer's Island will have monthly prompts, instead of weekly.

They will be posted the first Friday of each month.

On October 3rd, weekly prompts will kick off again. At the same time, a brand new Writer's Island site will launch for you to enjoy.

Click here to visit The Writer's Island.