Here’s a snippet from @poeticswede.bsky.social 's “Working Out Again." Read it in full in the spring issue: www.holeintheheadreview.com Gus Peterson lives in the smallest town by land area in Maine. His first full length book, Male Pattern, was published in 2025 by Finishing Line Press.

Here’s a peek at “Pretty Handsome” in the spring issue: www.holeintheheadreview.com t love smith (they/them) is a queer, trans/non-binary poet stewarding unceded Wabanaki land. t’s poetry has been published in new words press, Island Ink, and presented on local radio shows and podcasts.

The Spring 2026 issue: holeintheheadreview.com This excerpt is from “Sonnet at Zero” by Melissa McKinstry. Melissa hosts poetry and jazz evenings and curates a community Poet Tree in San Diego. She serves on the Alumni Council for Pacific University’s MFA and the Board of the Millay House Rockland.

The Spring 2026 issue is here: holeintheheadreview.com! Today’s excerpt is from "Deer Skull" by Onna Solomon, whose poems appear in Beloit Poetry Journal, Hobart, Hopkins Review, and Iron Horse, among others. Her poem “Autism Suite” was awarded the Beloit Poetry Journal’s Chad Walsh Poetry Prize.

We're thrilled to present the Spring 2026 Issue of Hole in the Head Review featuring poetry, prose poems, the results of the Charles Simic Poetry Prize, an interview with Joseph Cooper, and so much more. Visit holeintheheadreview.com for the full issue. 🐇

Our Spring 2026 Issue arrives on 2/15. Today we share the cover art, two stunning photographs by María DeGuzmán, ‘Echoes of Casablanca’ and ‘Woman Seated in the Temple of the Cats’ are two photographs from an expanding series called 'Quartz Secrets.'

We’re thrilled to announce the results of the 2025 Charles Simic Poetry Prize judged by former and founding HITH editor Bill Schulz. Congrats winners & finalists, and thanks to all who submitted. Read the winning poems in the Spring 2026 issue, arriving February 15th. 🐇 @triciaknoll.bsky.social

Submissions are open for our Spring issue! 🐇

Just over a week remains to submit!

The Charles Simic Poetry Prize is open until 12/1. One winner receives $1000, and one Editor's Choice receives $200 and a signed first edition of "Night Picnic". Visit www.holeintheheadreview.com for full guidelines. 🐇

Get those poems ready! The 2025 Charles Simic Poetry Prize will open for submissions on November 1st. This year's judge is Hole in the Head's founder and former editor, Bill Schulz. Full guidelines at www.holeintheheadreview.com 🐇

Get those poems ready! The 2025 Charles Simic Poetry Prize will open for submissions on November 1st. This year's judge is Hole in the Head's founder and former editor, Bill Schulz. Full guidelines at www.holeintheheadreview.com 🐇

Today’s sample is from Joshua Zeitler’s “Townie”. Joshua Zeitler (@thejayestofzees.bsky.social) is a queer, nonbinary writer based in rural Michigan. They are the author of the chapbook Bliss Road (Seven Kitchens Press, 2025). Their work appears in Ploughshares, Foglifter, and elsewhere.

Visit www.holeintheheadreview.com! Here’s a sample from Michelle Menting's "Interdigital Neuroma Sounds Like a Useless Grammatical Term”. Michelle Menting's work has appeared in Cincinnati Review, Passages North, One Art, Diagram, Cimarron Review, and others.

Today's sample comes from Dawn Potter's “Maine”. Visit www.holeintheheadreview.com for the full Fall issue. @dawnlorrainepotter.bsky.social is the author or editor of ten books of prose and poetry—most recently the poetry collection "Calendar". She lives in Portland, Maine.

Visit www.holeintheheadreview.com for our latest issue. Here’s a sample from Samantha DeFlitch’s prose poem “Consider This”. Samantha DeFlitch is the author of Confluence (Broadstone Books, 2021). She is a 2025 Artist in Residence at Acadia National Park She lives in New Hampshire.

Visit www.holeintheheadreview.com for our Fall issue. Here’s a sample from Kimberly Gibson-Tran’s “Crossing I-75”. Kimberly Gibson-Tran's (@kdawn999.bsky.social) writing appears in The Bombay Literary Magazine, Baltimore Review, Passages North, Porter House, Third Coast, and elsewhere.

More from the Fall 2025 issue! Visit www.holeintheheadreview.com. Today's sample is from Erica Reid's “Weatherman”. Erica Reid is the author of "Ghost Man on Second", winner of the Donald Justice Poetry Prize (Autumn House Press, 2024). www.ericareidpoet.com

The Fall 2025 issue is live at www.holeintheheadreview.com! Here's a sampling from Shagufta Mulla's "I Am That I Am (Exodus 3:14)".

Today’s sneak peek of the Fall issue comes from Claire Millikin’s “Winter Horses”. The Fall 2025 issue arrives this Friday. 🐇

Our Fall issue arrives 8/15! Here's a preview of Betsy's Sholl's "Fragment".

Here is the second of two beautiful cover images for the Fall 2025 issue, arriving 8/15. This is "Spoils" by former and founding Editor Bill Schulz.

Here is the first of two beautiful cover images for the Fall 2025 issue, arriving 8/15. This is "Blue House in Sangre de Cristo" by former and founding Editor Bill Schulz.

Mark your calendars! New issue arrives 8.15.25 at holeintheheadreview.com 🐇

We've reached our submission cap for the fall issue- thank you all! The issue is due out 8/15. 🐇

We're already nearing our cap for poetry and prose poems-- wow! Submission details at www.holeintheheadreview.com. 🐇

We are open! Submissions for poetry and prose poems are open until July 1, or until we reach our cap. Visit www.holeintheheadreview.com for guidelines.

The final introduction of our editorial team: Jeri Theriault is editor of the anthology Wait: Poems from the Pandemic. She won a Fulbright Exchange Award, a Maine Arts Commission Fellowship, a Monson Fellowship, a Norwood Prize, and a Maine Literary Award. Submissions open June 1! Link in bio. 🐇

All this week we’re introducing the HITH editorial team: David Stankiewicz is the author of two books: Night Garden and My First Beatrice. A graduate of the Stonecoast MFA program, he is a professor of English at Southern Maine Community College. Submissions open June 1! Link in bio. 🐇

All this week we’re introducing the HITH editorial team: Jefferson Navicky, Prose Poetry Editor, is the author of four books, most recently Head of Island Beautification for the Rural Outlands, which was a Finalist for the Big Other Book Award in Fiction. Submissions open June 1! Link in bio. 🐇

All this week we’re introducing the HITH editorial team: Kate Kearns is the author of You Are Ruining My Loneliness. Her work appears in Appalachian Review, The Swannanoa Review, Sugar House Review, and elsewhere. She earned her MFA from Lesley University. Submissions open June 1! Link in bio. 🐇

All this week we’re introducing the HITH editorial team: @kencraft.bsky.social, a Pushcart Prize recipient, divides time between writing and teaching college courses. His most recent book is Reincarnation & Other Stimulants: Life, Death, & In-Between. Submissions open June 1! Link in bio. 🐇

All this week we’re introducing the HITH editorial team: @mikebove.bsky.social is the author of four books of poetry. In 2024 he served as Writer-in-Residence at Acadia National Park. Mike lives in Portland, Maine where he was born and raised. Submissions open June 1! Link in bio. 🐇

New website is live! www.holeintheheadreview.com

More coming very soon, we promise, including info about the next issue and our next reading period!

We're coming to Bluesky-- watch this space!