November 2026 is the season's big book-prize month for poets. Yale, BOA, Georgia, Nightboat, Fordham's Poetic Justice prizes and Beloit's Chad Walsh chapbook all close, plus a handful of single-poem contests, broadsides and paying journal calls. Below is a curated roundup of poetry contests November 2026 and related calls we verified on official contest or publisher pages. … [Read more...] about Poetry Submission Deadlines November 2026
Planting Roots, By: Andrew Cyr
A northwest autumn breeze had stirred a sweet smokescreen— stove-warm air, birch-arched, drifted through a cracked window. On the first Saturday in November, a roar caught my attention. I set my book aside, parted the blinds, and saw Sophia outside— her chainsaw buzzed, maple branches fell. My eyes widened, breath caught like a gut punch. "Damn freak," I said— my words … [Read more...] about Planting Roots, By: Andrew Cyr
What Is The Mask of Anarchy About?
What is The Mask of Anarchy about? Percy Bysshe Shelley wrote it in 1819 in furious response to the Peterloo Massacre, when cavalry charged a peaceful crowd in Manchester that had gathered to demand political reform. In the poem, a grim parade of Murder, Fraud, Hypocrisy and Anarchy, wearing the faces of real government ministers, tramples England. Then a mysterious figure … [Read more...] about What Is The Mask of Anarchy About?
The Only Ghost I Ever Saw Summary and Analysis
This The Only Ghost I Ever Saw summary follows a surprisingly delicate haunting. Emily Dickinson's speaker describes a ghost whose clothes, movements and laughter resemble lace, snow, animals and wind. Only at the end does the encounter become explicitly frightening. Read the full text of The Only Ghost I Ever Saw on Poetry Catalog. The Only Ghost I Ever Saw … [Read more...] about The Only Ghost I Ever Saw Summary and Analysis
Strange Fits of Passion Have I Known Summary and Analysis
This Strange Fits of Passion Have I Known summary covers one of William Wordsworth's Lucy poems. A lover rides by moonlight to the cottage of Lucy, the girl he loves. He keeps his eye on the sinking moon, and when it suddenly drops behind her roof, a strange thought seizes him: "If Lucy should be dead!" Read the full text of Strange Fits of Passion Have I Known on Poetry … [Read more...] about Strange Fits of Passion Have I Known Summary and Analysis
Water Ballad, By: Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'Come hither, gently rowing,Come, bear me quickly o'erThis stream so brightly flowingTo yonder woodland shore.But vain were my endeavourTo pay thee, courteous guide;Row on, row on, for everI'd have thee by my side. 'Good boatman, prithee haste thee,I seek my father-land.'--'Say, when I there have placed thee,Dare I demand thy hand?''A maiden's head can neverSo hard a point … [Read more...] about Water Ballad, By: Samuel Taylor Coleridge