Submission window for Issue #7 closes in LESS THAN 24 HRS! If you or a poet you know want to join our poetry-essay exchange, come find us at publicschoolpoetry.submittable.com/submit

Remembering the poet Dale Going, who was a joy to work with, and whose poem "This Is My Secret Society My Private Tribe," we nominated for a Pushcart Prize last year. Read the whole poem here: www.publicschoolpoetry.com/dale-going

Our readership doubled last issue and then doubled again with our current issue! And wow, the submissions we're getting! Keep 'em coming. Next deadline June 1st.

Tonight! PSP Issue #6 reading launch with our amazing contributors. One of whom is Kristie Williams who may read her poem "All That I Know of Tree Sex and Panties Was Unearthed at Another Poet's Reading" www.facebook.com/events/16776...

"They tell me to exit you must go through" "Ikea Panic Attack" by Claire Denson www.publicschoolpoetry.com/pages/claire...

It's 5pm and Public School Poetry is officially open for submissions! If the thought of writing a 5-paragraph essay in response to another (anonymous) contributor's poems strikes that magic combo of excitement and nerves, send us some work! publicschoolpoetry.submittable.com/submit

Issue #6 is live! Come for popping-out-of-a-hole-screaming vibes, luminescent creatures yanked into nightmare worlds that still use their muscled brilliance to sing, and for our ten gorgeous poets. @mehpoeting.bsky.social @sallypoet.bsky.social www.publicschoolpoetry.com/current

"Stop One Clock" and feel this sharp dagger of love poem from @jessicawalsh.bsky.social www.publicschoolpoetry.com/pages/jessic...

6 days until Issue 6! Have you read the roundontini in Issue #5 from @kavetchnik.bsky.social yet?! Be brave. It's for Dallas, Who Bites www.publicschoolpoetry.com/pages/jen-ka...

Shiny new person machine poem by PSP editor @davidww.bsky.social up on HAD today!

Posting Issue 5 poems every day until the launch of Issue 6! Here's Carrie Strand Tebeau's electrifying Wolf Day sequence. "You do not choose / the Wolf Day. You have no say." www.publicschoolpoetry.com/pages/carrie...

Congratulations to Shou Jie Eng, whose poem "Shoreline Sketch" (Issue #4) is a 2026 Best of the Net finalist! "they dug their feet into the sand towards the fire towards the fire the sand was/ warmer they noticed their feet noticed" www.publicschoolpoetry.com/shou-jie-eng

LGBTQ+ Poetry Finalists Cont’d: Unfurl: Survivals, Sorrows, and Dreaming by Eli Clare. @dukepress.bsky.social Wayward Creatures by heidi andrea restrepo rhodes. YEET! by @jasonbcrawford @omnidawn.bsky.social #Lammys2026

Finalizing our contributor's page for Issue #6! This page is always something special and this next issue's gonna melt some cold hearts. Our poets are invited to share a current photo or a photo from some other time gone by. Bios from our current issue ❤️ www.publicschoolpoetry.com/contributor-...

Loving Public School Poetry contributor Amorak Huey's new collection, Mouth!

Check out Public School Poetry contributor, Shou Jie Eng's, poem "Alexa" in the new issue of @sixthfinch.bsky.social. Pepper, grinding, empire sixthfinch.com/eng1.html

Acceptances sent out! Issue #6 is gonna be a stunner

Subs have closed for Issue 6 of Public School Poetry, and we're reading through an an amazing bunch of submissions! Thanks for making our Vice Principal selecting work an exciting challenge.

On this Black Friday, come on down to Public School Poetry, where we have NOTHING TO SELL! No products, only poems. In fact, send us some work, if you are interested our unique poem-essay exchange format. Submission window closes Dec. 1! www.publicschoolpoetry.com

The great Sean Thomas Dougherty (also a Public School Poetry contributor in Issue #1!) word-singing the unmeasurable grams we're forced to measure

PSP contributors Molly Spencer, Keith Taylor, Jen Sperry Steinorth & Jeff Kass at our annual pizza party reading. Subs for Issue #6 are open!

For the next six glorious weeks, the submission window for Issue #6 of Public School Poetry is open! Homework is due December 1st! publicschoolpoetry.submittable.com/submit

So excited to check out Laura Passin's new book! (featuring one of our favorite 'A Wrinkle in Time'-themed poems... www.publicschoolpoetry.com/laura-passin)

Issue #5 reading tonight @ 7pm et! DM for the link. Our contributors meet each other for the first time & discover who wrote what about whose poems. Mystical experiences happen. & we send postcards!

Featuring work by @jeffkass21.bsky.social, @kavetchnik.bsky.social, @jessicawalsh.bsky.social, and seven other poets who are not on Bluesky!

The Countdown is over! Issue #5 has just begun www.publicschoolpoetry.com/current-issue

The TWO DAY countdown to Issue #5 has begun! And will end very shortly! See you Monday on publicschoolpoetry.com

Want to know more about Public School Poetry? We answered questions!

Oh hey! PSP Vice-Principal Ellen Stone is on the radio in an hour (5pm EST) with the Living Writers series: wcbn.org

On Father's Day, a final poem from Issue #4: "Antigone Canadensis," by Thomas Lynch. "A hatch of ladybugs in mid October and hornets hover in the sunlit air sugar maples redden, yellow; everywhere" www.publicschoolpoetry.com/thomas-lynch Last day to send us poetry for Issue #5!

2 days left to submit! Have poems by 2 excellent poets: Shou Jie Eng & @patriciaclarkpoet.bsky.social www.publicschoolpoetry.com publicschoolpoetry.submittable.com/submit

"It was a summer of violence and wisteria. The clouds were clambering beastly heads and raining pink rain." from "Iphegenia," by @kdawn999.bsky.social www.publicschoolpoetry.com/kimberly-gib... (honestly, one of those poems where every line could be a pull quote. So, so good!)

"I read to her about the 𝑜𝑜𝑘 and the 𝑓𝑖𝑟𝑟𝑒 and the 𝑚𝑎𝑝𝑢𝑙 felled to clear the way for the Arcite's sepulcher, and I look up from time to time to monitor her eyelids." from John Popielaski's "Extraordinary Measures" www.publicschoolpoetry.com/john-popiela... Submissions end on the 15th!

Excerpted from Jasmine An's chinavirus erasure sequence. Full thing here! www.publicschoolpoetry.com/jasmine-an 6 days left to submit! publicschoolpoetry.submittable.com/submit

"I learned this method from my father // who ate all fruit with a knife and bowl / and a precision that seemed almost vulgar" Gahl Liberzon, from Issue #4! www.publicschoolpoetry.com/gahl-liberzon Submissions due 6/15 publicschoolpoetry.submittable.com/submit

"I preside over a subcommittee of one." @dalegoingpoet.bsky.social [the ending of this poem, whew] www.publicschoolpoetry.com/dale-going

为 I am held between sleep and desire. 写 I hold her gaze. 一 She waits in the mirror, 首 clocking me, 诗 as the time draws taut. - Cela Xie, "The Reflection" www.publicschoolpoetry.com/cela-xie 9 days to send in work!

10 days left to submit some poetry for Issue #5! Each day, we'll post a poem from one of our 10 poets in the current issue. Today's poet is Alison Swan-- click the link for an accompanying essay by Shou Jie Eng! www.publicschoolpoetry.com/alison-swan

We're cooking up a new issue! publicschoolpoetry.submittable.com/submit

The submission window is now open for ISSUE #5 of Public School Poetry. If you want to join in the poetry-essay exchange, send us some work! publicschoolpoetry.submittable.com/submit/32704...

What an amazing reading! Our Public School Poetry contributors rock!

Our fourth issue is out! Featuring poems and essays by: Jasmine An, Patricia Clark, Shou Jie Eng, Kimberly Gibson-Tran, Dale Going, Gahl Liberzon, Thomas Lynch, John Popielaski, Alison Swan, and Cela Xie See them read tonight! 7 PM Eastern Standard Time (DM for Zoom link!) publicschoolpoetry.com

Issue #4 is up now at publicschoolpoetry.com! Featuring poetry and essays by Alison Swan, Cela Xie, Dale Going, Gahl Liberzon, Jasmine An, John Popielaski, Kimberly Gibson Tran, Patricia Clark, Shou Jie Eng, and Thomas Lynch.

Woohoo! I have 3 poems just published in @publicschoolpoetry.bsky.social ! The fun is they also assigned me a 5-paragraph essay. It was an honor to get to write about Gahl Liberzon’s poems. 🩵💛 Here’s the issue: www.publicschoolpoetry.com

Well, we've jettisoned the X account for obvious reasons. Only the small army of porn bots following that account will be sad!