Poetry Submissions with Print Subscription

Writers submitting in this category are subscribing to a year of Hawk & Whippoorwill. Regardless of the outcome of their submission, they will receive copies of both the next two print issues.  

Poems submitted through this category will be considered for print publication, and, if accepted, will be considered as well for one of our two annual competitions: the Aspen Poetry Prize, and the Acadia Poetry Prize. (For more information about these, please see the submissions category labeled "Poetry Submissions for Prize Consideration".) 

Guidelines for submissions:

We are seeking poems which speak to some aspect of the relationship between "nature & humankind." We eschew work which is ungrammatical, trite, doggerel, mawkish, uninteresting, boring, benumbed, or pretentious. We are highly interested in nature poetry which is incisive, sharable, risky, and current. Verbal richness is great, as is resourcefulness in making use of scientific knowledge, formal innovation, and multimodal possibilities. 

Sonnets about backyard birding should be so excellent as to justify the poet's disinterest in e.g. ecological disruption, climate crisis,  or species loss. 

We are especially keen to hear from writers who can help us improve the diversity and intersectionality of our contributors list.

We read submissions on an ongoing basis.