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
What Is Lucy Gray About?
What is Lucy Gray by Wordsworth about? William Wordsworth's ballad tells of a little girl who lives on a lonely moor. Her father sends her out with a lantern to light her mother home through the snow, a storm comes on early, and Lucy vanishes. Her parents follow her footprints to the middle of a wooden bridge, where they stop. Some say she still roams the moor, singing. Read … [Read more...] about What Is Lucy Gray About?
The Tables Turned Summary and Analysis
This Tables Turned summary covers William Wordsworth's famous call to put down your books and go outside. The speaker tells a friend to "quit your books," listen to the birds and "Let Nature be your Teacher," because "One impulse from a vernal wood" can teach more about good and evil than all the sages. Read the full text of The Tables Turned on Poetry Catalog. It answers an … [Read more...] about The Tables Turned Summary and Analysis
Expostulation and Reply Summary and Analysis
This Expostulation and Reply summary covers William Wordsworth's short poem from Lyrical Ballads (1798). A friend named Matthew scolds the poet, called William, for sitting alone on a stone all morning instead of reading books. William replies that the mind can learn simply by being open to Nature, in "a wise passiveness." Read the full text of Expostulation and Reply on Poetry … [Read more...] about Expostulation and Reply Summary and Analysis
Melancholy, By: Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Stretch'd on a moulder'd Abbey's broadest wall,Where ruining ivies propp'd the ruins steep--Her folded arms wrapping her tatter'd pall,Had Melancholy mus'd herself to sleep.The fern was press'd beneath her hair,The dark green Adder's Tongue was there;And still as pass'd the flagging sea-gale weak,The long lank leaf bow'd fluttering o'er her cheek. That pallid cheek was … [Read more...] about Melancholy, By: Samuel Taylor Coleridge
To the Author of ‘The Robbers’, By: Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Schiller! that hour I would have wish'd to die,If thro' the shuddering midnight I had sentFrom the dark dungeon of the Tower time-rentThat fearful voice, a famish'd Father's cry--Lest in some after moment aught more meanMight stamp me mortal! A triumphant shoutBlack Horror scream'd, and all her goblin routDiminish'd shrunk from the more withering scene!Ah! Bard tremendous in … [Read more...] about To the Author of ‘The Robbers’, By: Samuel Taylor Coleridge