After a long delay, The Mantle Poetry has returned with Issue 22! Please click the image below to access it. Or click here to download the PDF.

Thank you for your patience!
After a long delay, The Mantle Poetry has returned with Issue 22! Please click the image below to access it. Or click here to download the PDF.

Thank you for your patience!
Issue 20 of The Mantle Poetry is now live! Excited to share work from the following poets:
Jonathan B. Aibel
Mary Elizabeth Birnbaum
Ace Boggess
Ava Chen
Mary Christine Delea
Annie Przypyszny
Stan Sanvel Rubin
Mary Simmons
Melody Wilson
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The Mantle Poetry is happy to announce this year’s Pushcart Prize nominations:
Rebecca Macijeski – “Because I Listen For Things” (Issue 18)
Elana Wolff – “Ice Lace” (Issue 18)
Anna Gayle – “All I Want Is to Be Soft Again” (Issue 19)
William Snyder, Jr. “About Owls, the Bones of Mice, and the Work of Assembly” (Issue 19)
Elizabeth Sylvia – “The Transience” (Issue 19)
Philip Jason – “Lucinate” (Issue 19)
Congrats to all!
Congrats to our nominees for next year’s Best of the Net!
Nick Martino – Three Cheers For My Friends, Their Hard Labor
Sara Eddy – Pumice Mines
Peycho Kanev – Elusive Feeling
Juanita Rey – Getting By
Maryfrances Wagner – For What We Don’t Know
Lori Lamothe – Why I Deleted My Instagram

The Mantle Poetry happily announces our Pushcart Prize nominations for 2021:
“Nana’s Teachings” by Beatriz Dujovne
“Fugue” by James H Duncan
“We Are Nowhere & It’s Now” by Justin Groppuso-Cook
“The Count Is Now 2 and Whatever” by Louise Robertson
“Sincerity” by Louisa Schnaithmann
“In December” by Manuela Williams
Congrats to all!
The Mantle Poetry is excited to release Issue 17, featuring fine work from seven poets:
Millicent Borges Accardi
David Capps
Peycho Kanev
Salvatore Difalco
Kuo Zhang
Bryan D. Price
Justin Groppuso-Cook
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The Mantle is pleased to announce these six poems as our nominations for the 2020 Sundress Publications “Best of the Net” Anthology. (Issues 12 – 15 were eligible for nominations this year):
Zamiya Akbar – All the Ways Love Can Leave
Elise Houcek – The Lime Tree
Eunice Kim – the body’s grief is apocryphal
Margo LaPierre – Ride
Blue Nguyen – a portrait: i learn how to forgive a bird
Bear Weaver – Into Ornithology
Congrats!