Issue 11 has arrived! It features stellar work from seven poets:
Ace Boggess
Sy Brand
Madeleine Grossman
Allison Hummel
Jude Nguyen
Simon Perchik
Stephanie Athena Valente
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Thanks for reading. Hope this uncertain era finds you safe and healthy.
Issue 10 has arrived! We are excited to share poems from six poets:
Michael Akuchie
Alexandra Bentayou
P. Claire Dodson
Satya Dash
Hannah Newman
Ellen Sander
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The Mantle is pleased to announce these six poems from issues five through eight as our nominations for the 2019 Sundress Publications “Best of the Net” Anthology:
sally burnette – “selected edible mushrooms of north carolina” (Issue 5)
Mateo Lara – “Odio (Hate)” (Issue 7)
Sara Trattner – “A Well Made Bed” (Issue 7)
Lisa Folkmire – “I am told that I have OCD” (Issue 8)
Joanna C. Valente – “When You Ask Me How I Am and I Almost Tell You, I Haven’t Killed Myself Yet” (Issue 8)
Rikki Angelides – “Departures” (Issue 8)
Congrats and good luck to these poets! Issue 10 will release in November. You can find submission guidelines here.
Issue 9 is here! So excited to share ten stellar poems from Kristian Macaron, Maddie Ticknor, Ashley Steineger, and Catherine Weiss.
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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
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Issue 7 Contributors
Ace Boggess
Stefani Cox
Terri Kirby Erickson
Nancy Byrne Iannucci
Leah Kiureghian
Kristin LaFollette
Mateo Lara
Terry Tierney
Sara Trattner
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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
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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!
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Thanks for reading and– always– your support!
Best,
James Croal Jackson
Editor
