Issue 17 is here! #poetry #litmag So many wonderful poets brought together, we can't wait for you to see! Order yours at poetrysouth.submittable.com

Issue 17 should be delivered today! Can't wait to see it in the flesh (not flesh, paper, actually) #litmag #poetry

We always love announcing our Pushcart Prize nominees, though it's always a challenge to make our final choices. Congratulations and best of luck to our six nominees! @pushcartprize.bsky.social #pushcartnominees

We're proud to preview the cover for Issue 17! Poets are reviewing their proofs and soon it will be off to the printer. Order your copy today or send us poems for Issue 18. We are all caught up on submissions and want to start reading again! #submissions #poetry #magazine poetrysouth.submittable.com

We've been hard at work (but not posting)! Issue 17 is nearly done — page proofs were sent to poets this week. We've also caught up on submissions to Nov. 1, so now might be a good time to send us some poems or order your copy of the new issue! poetrysouth.submittable.com

For a closer look, here is each panel of the 37th Annual Eudora Welty Writers' Symposium with 12 Southern writers and 5 Ephemera Prize Winners. Each session is free to attend and will be live-streamed on our WeltySymposium Youtube channel. #readings #writerscommunity #mississippi #southernwriters

Two weeks from today, we begin the 37th annual Eudora Welty Writers' Symposium at Mississippi University for Women. Here's our complete schedule! #writers #southernauthors #readings #bookfestival #TheW

North Mississippi friends! I'll be doing a reading and book signing at Bookends in Pontotoc this weekend. Come hear #poems from Tree Fall with Birdsong! Everyone is welcome! #poetry #northmississippi #pontotocms

We've finished responding to submissions for Issue 17. We read over 1000 submissions, so more than 4000 poems to select 100 pages. That means our acceptance rate for 2025 was about 2.5%. We mean what we said: there really wasn't room for all the good poems!

Wondering why we're quiet? One reason is we've been busy! The other reason is we're based in Mississippi and Bluesky is blocking users in our state thanks to a restrictive new law. So we have to hitch up the mule and drive to Alabama to post. #mississippi #bluesky

Congratulations to L. Lamar Wilson who is featured at Poem-a-Day today for his poem "Lauren Oya Olamina Explains Earthseed to Ernest Hemingway." poets.org/poem/lauren-...

"If 'Tree Fall' is loss — that things change, life ends, meaning is lost — what could represent the opposite qualities of birth, of creation, of fullness. An early poem gave me my answer with 'Birdsong.'" Read more from @ctsalazar.bsky.social's interview with @kdunkelberg.bsky.social!

We love that we can embed our @librarything.com books shelf on our website. It's a great way to promote poetry by our contributors, as well as other books we discover.

We've added Tree Fall with Birdsong to our @librarything.com bookshelf and therefore to our poetry page at www.muw.edu/poetrysouth/poetry/ where you can see more recent and notable #poetrybooks by Southern poets and Poetry South contributors. Congratulations on a successful pub day!

We've added Tree Fall with Birdsong to our @librarything.com bookshelf and therefore to our poetry page at www.muw.edu/poetrysouth/poetry/ where you can see more recent and notable #poetrybooks by Southern poets and Poetry South contributors. Congratulations on a successful pub day!

ChillSubs' analysis of social media at Lit Mag News made us feel better: they call a 10:1 follower/following ratio healthy. Ours is about 2:1. We're still looking for cool people to follow, but glad to feel less pressure to follow back. @chillsubs.bsky.social litmagnews.substack.com/p/social-med...

Exiting the #awp25 Book Fair after another exhausting yet exhilarating three days! See you in Baltimore for #AWP26!

Stasha Cole stopped by our booth. She has two poems forthcoming in Issue 17 (December 2022). So nice to meet a new contributor at #AWP25

Great to talk with contributor Carol Davis who stopped by the table at #AWP25 today. She’s in our forthcoming 2025 issue and 2022.

Happy Friday #AWP25! We’re already having a great day after our conversation with Mario, a poet from Iowa who stopped by the table in the first minutes of the Book Fair.

Before and after Day 1 of #AWP25

We're about to hop a plane to LA. See you at #AWP25. open.substack.com/pub/poetryso...

We've begun actively reading #submissions for Issue 17. Out sincere apologies for the delay (due to a death in the family). We will be working through our backlog as quickly as we can, while still giving each submission due attention!

We're on this list of magazines that launched in December.

A new poem out with @poetrysouth.bsky.social

Issue 16 is here! We’ll be mailing to subscribers and contributors early next week. #litmags #cover #poetry #newrelease

Huge congratulations to Christian J. Collier, Assistant Editor on Poetry South 15.

Want to check out our next issue at a discount? Head over to our Substack for a preview of the TOC and a link to our Holiday Discount. open.substack.com/pub/poetryso...

In anticipation of our next issue, which is at the printer and should arrive this week, we've changed our profile banner to a preview of the new cover. A view of Smoky Mountain National Park at sunset from an overlook near Townsend TN. Photo credit, Kim Whitehead. #smokies #litmag #cover

The world is diminished by this loss. Such an inspiring poet and a life well led. Rest in peace Nikki Giovanni. www.npr.org/2024/12/09/n...

Who else is going to #AWP25? We'll be there, find us in the #BookFair at T1133! @ponderreview.bsky.social @poetrysouth.bsky.social

Announcing Poetry South's #Pushcart Prize nominees.

We made a #starterpack of #poets, drawing from contributors to Issues 15 and 16, followers, and others we found. We hope to add more to this list, so if we missed you, let us know! go.bsky.app/V4QKPKv

Y'all, we have nearly filled our next issue, due out in December. If your great poems are returned now, it really is because someone loved them and we tried to find a spot. We read so much good #poetry and can only fill so many pages, but we know what we can't use will find another home!

We are deeply saddened by the passing of Ted Haddin, longtime contributing editor, poet, and musician. obits.cleveland.com/us/obituarie...

We've added this to our LibraryThing bookshelf. So many great #Southern #poets to explore!

This week we closed for #submissions for issue 16 and opened submissions for 17. Always open, always #free. #poetry

#bloomsday #jamesjoyce #ulysses

You have one month to submit poems for Issue 16 of Poetry South. Our annual deadline is July 15. (On July 16 we start collecting submissions for Issue 17, of course.) Send soon if you want to be considered for our December 2024 issue! #poetry #callforsubmissions poetrysouth.submittable.com

The poets are disappointed, NYT…

Did you know that we list new poetry books by Southern poets (and by our contributors) on our #Poetry page? Or you can find our full list at #LibraryThing. www.muw.edu/poetrysouth/...

It was great to meet so many #poets who’ve been in Poetry South at #AWP24 in Kansas City! We also loved talking to poets who might want to submit. Don’t forget to mention that you talked to us in your cover letters. Can’t wait to see your work!

Lots of folks are going to Kansas City for #AWP24 it seems. Stop by T1248 in the #BookFair and see us! We'll have swag and sample copies—even chocolate!

If you’d like our most recent issue, we still have a holiday discount. poetrysouth.submittable.com/submit/d5d06...

You can read our free back issues of issues 1-14 in our online archive. We also post individual poems and highlight recent books on our Poetry page. www.poetrysouth.com

We are open for submissions year-round with an annual deadline of July 15 for the next issue that comes out in December. Right now, we’re almost caught up on reading submissions, so it’s a good time to send your poems. poetrysouth.submittable.com

Happy 2024! One of our resolutions for the year is to expand our reach on social media by joining BlueSky! #poetry #writingcommunity #litmag