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
The picturesque dreameries, By: Pawel Markiewicz
Dedicated to all souls at feast of All Saints' Day on the first of November 2026 I was only a light dreamer. I was lonely and alone, however gentle such each poem of me, a piece of the eternity. Tied to the weight of the earth, I feel careful like a charm. My most beautiful dreams were brought by the rainbow into heaven, thanks to the tender red sky in the … [Read more...] about The picturesque dreameries, By: Pawel Markiewicz
What Is Auguries of Innocence About?
What is Auguries of Innocence about? William Blake's poem begins with four of the most famous lines in English: "To see the world in a grain of sand, / And a heaven in a wild flower; / Hold infinity in the palm of your hand, / And eternity in an hour." The rest of the poem is a long chain of couplets, each a warning or prophecy, showing that every act of cruelty or kindness, … [Read more...] about What Is Auguries of Innocence About?
The Echoing Green Summary and Analysis
This The Echoing Green summary follows a day of children's play from sunrise to evening. In William Blake's poem, birds, bells and games fill a shared green with sound. Older people remember their own childhood, and the children eventually settle beside their mothers. The day's movement quietly suggests the passing of a human life. Read the full text of The Echoing Green on … [Read more...] about The Echoing Green Summary and Analysis
Fame Is a Fickle Food Summary and Analysis
This Fame Is a Fickle Food summary begins with a warning disguised as a meal. Emily Dickinson presents reputation as food served on an unstable plate. The invitation may not last, the crows prefer something more nourishing, and human diners meet a bleak end. Read the full text of Fame Is a Fickle Food on Poetry Catalog. Fame Is a Fickle Food Summary Lines 1–4: an … [Read more...] about Fame Is a Fickle Food Summary and Analysis
Human Life, By: Samuel Taylor Coleridge
If dead, we cease to be; if total gloomSwallow up life's brief flash for aye, we fareAs summer-gusts, of sudden birth and doom,Whose sound and motion not alone declare,But are their whole of being! If the breathBe Life itself, and not its task and tent,If even a soul like Milton's can know death;O Man! thou vessel purposeless, unmeant,Yet drone-hive strange of phantom … [Read more...] about Human Life, By: Samuel Taylor Coleridge