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 21 has landed! Honored to feature work from the following writers:

John Paul Davis
Melissa Eleftherion
R. Gerry Fabian
Haro Lee
Erin L. McCoy
Nadia Rhook
Laura Rockhold
Jacob Schepers
CJ Scruton

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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!

Issue 19 is now live! Featuring work from the following poets:

Ryan Brennan
jessamyn duckwall
Morgan English
Anna Gayle
Philip Jason
Ronald J. Pelias
Noa Saunders
William Snyder, Jr.
Elizabeth Sylvia

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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 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!

After a bit of a delay, The Mantle Poetry is happy to release its sixteenth issue, featuring the following contributors:

Michael Beard
Annie Cigic
Sara Eddy
Paris Jessie
Beth Konkoski
Nick Martino
Louise Robertson
George Ryan

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Issue 15 is now live! Proud to feature the work of these nine poets:

Cheryl Aguirre 
billy cancel
Julia Lisella
Margo LaPierre
Lorette C. Luzajic
Suchoon Mo
James Owens
Louisa Schnaithmann
Manuela Williams

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Issue 14 is now live! Proud to feature the works of these eight poets:

Zamiya Akbar
James H Duncan
Beatriz Dujovne
Elise Houcek
Blue Nguyen
Emily Scudder
Debasis Tripathy
Bear Weaver

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