a poetry journal
Best New Poets is an annual anthology that celebrates emerging poets who have yet to publish a full-length collection. After much deliberation (and a months-long delay in the announcement due to a busy schedule), The Mantle is happy to announce our two nominees from eligible poets we published in 2018:
Sheena Carroll
Catherine Weiss
Click their names to read the nominated poems!
Issue 7 Contributors
Ace Boggess
Stefani Cox
Terri Kirby Erickson
Nancy Byrne Iannucci
Leah Kiureghian
Kristin LaFollette
Mateo Lara
Terry Tierney
Sara Trattner
Click the image below to access the issue!
November 2018 (Issue 6) includes poems from:
Daniel Bailey
Ariana D. Den Bleyker
C.M. Donahue
Howard Faerstein
Gregory Kimbrell
Ben Kline
Xiaoly Li
Donora and Andrew Rihn
Jake Sheff
Troy Varvel
Click the cover below to access the work!
It has been one year since the release of our first issue! Happy to rein in our second year of The Mantle with eight excellent poets. Click the cover below to read!
Issue 5 contributors:
sally burnette
Virginia Bach Folger
Mimi German
Hunter Lewinski
Julia Merante
Julia Norton
Michael Prihoda
Catherine Weiss
Our next issue arrives in November. Submit today!
The Mantle is pleased to announce these six poems from our first four issues as our nominations for the 2018 Sundress Publications “Best of the Net” Anthology:
Nina Sudhakar – Self-Portrait as Cathedral (Issue 1)
Bryanna Licciardi – Fish Love (Issue 2)
Eleonor Botoman – The Diorama (Issue 3)
Layne Ransom – What We Can Bear (Issue 3)
Fayce Hammond – One Genealogy for De/Colonization (Issue 3)
Hedy Habra – Or What Does a Tree Know About Aging? (Issue 4)
Congrats and good luck to these poets! Issue 5 releases on Wednesday, August 1st. You can find submission guidelines here.
Honored to present the fourth issue of The Mantle, presenting ten poems from ten poets:
Gale Acuff
Shelby Curran
Emily Ellison
Hedy Habra
Lindsay Illich
Shirley Jones-Luke
Tanner Lee
Ethan Milner
Crystalline Nixon
Amy Poague
The issue is available both as a PDF and as a series of linked pages, so you can read and/or share in the way you prefer.
Consider submitting to our fifth issue, which will release on the first of August. Until then, enjoy!
Click the cover image below to access the issue:
Thanks for reading and– always– your support!
Best,
James Croal Jackson
Editor
Proud to present our nominations for Volume 3 of Bettering American Poetry (content from Issues 1 and 2 are eligible):
Nina Sudhakar – “Self-Portrait as Cathedral” (Issue 1)
Bryanna Licciardi – “Fish Love” (Issue 2)
Keshia Mcclantoc – “nature vs. nurture” (Issue 2)
These poems are worth the read! Congratulations to the nominees and best of luck going forward in the process.
(We read submissions for Issue 4 through April 7th. Read the guidelines here!)
Honored to present the third issue of The Mantle! In this issue you’ll find ten poems from nine poets:
Geoff Anderson
Eleonor Botoman
Sheena Carroll
Fayce Hammond
Alicia Hoffman
Daniel J. Pizappi
Layne Ransom
AJ Wolff
Soz Zangana
The issue is available both as a PDF and as a series of linked pages, so you can read and/or share in the way you prefer.
Consider submitting to our fourth issue, which will release on the first of May. Until then, enjoy!
Click the cover to access the issue:
Here it is: the second issue of The Mantle! Honored to present ten poems from ten poets:
Maureen Daniels
Anisa Gandevivala
R.W. Jagodnik
Tallon Kennedy
Bryanna Licciardi
Keshia Mcclantoc
Stephen Mead
Jessica Mehta
Kenneth Pobo
Aden Thomas
The issue is available both as a PDF and as a series of linked pages, so you can read and/or share in the way you prefer. In this issue you will find poems of fear and acceptance in relation to love, sea, sky, and phenomena; the intersection of art and identity; the inevitability of both future and memory– and much more. Hope you enjoy reading these as much as I do.
Consider submitting to our third issue, which will release on the first of February. Until then, enjoy!
Click the cover to access the issue:
We are proud to unveil the first issue of The Mantle! We present ten poems from eight poets:
Menkah Ahlawat
Ace Boggess
Nicholas Bon
Gray Clark
Robert Okaji
Kenneth Pobo
Louise Robertson
Nina Sudhakar
The issue is available both as a PDF and as a series of linked pages, so you can read and/or share in the way you prefer. In these poems, you will find a cryptic note from twenty years ago; tape recorders full of secrets; lost cities and selves; holes to drill and fix; math and architecture; and flowers of both the metaphorical and non-metaphorical varieties.
Consider submitting to our second issue, due out in November. Until then, enjoy these great poems!
Click the cover to access the issue:
Thank you so much for your support!
James Croal Jackson
Editor, The Mantle
