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
Never Enough, By: Luis Cuauhtemoc Berriozabal
All the ocean salt and its fish, all the water in the world, every wave, is not enough for you. You go along, never quietly, in your insufferable way, the rain on our parade, weeping for more, an offer that never satiates your greed. … [Read more...] about Never Enough, By: Luis Cuauhtemoc Berriozabal
What Is Ode: Intimations of Immortality About?
What is Ode: Intimations of Immortality about? William Wordsworth's great ode is about losing the radiant way children see the world, and about what an adult can keep after that vision fades. As a child, the speaker saw ordinary nature "Apparelled in celestial light." Now that glow is gone. The poem suggests that children arrive "trailing clouds of glory" from a heavenly home … [Read more...] about What Is Ode: Intimations of Immortality About?
Much Madness Is Divinest Sense Summary and Analysis
This Much Madness Is Divinest Sense summary begins with a paradox. In eight short lines, Emily Dickinson argues that what society calls madness is often the truest sense, and that what society calls sense is often madness. The difference, she says, is decided by the majority. Agree with the crowd and you are called sane. Disagree and you are labeled dangerous and put in chains. … [Read more...] about Much Madness Is Divinest Sense Summary and Analysis
Sonnet 29 Summary and Analysis
This Sonnet 29 summary starts at a low point. In William Shakespeare's sonnet, the speaker feels disgraced, unlucky and alone. He envies other men their hope, looks, friends and talents, and he curses his fate. Then he happens to think of the person he loves, and his mood rises "Like to the lark at break of day." By the end he would not trade places with kings. Read the full … [Read more...] about Sonnet 29 Summary and Analysis
In the Forest, By: Oscar Wilde
Out of the mid-wood’s twilightInto the meadow’s dawn,Ivory limbed and brown-eyed,Flashes my Faun! He skips through the copses singing,And his shadow dances along,And I know not which I should follow,Shadow or song! O Hunter, snare me his shadow!O Nightingale, catch me his strain!Else moonstruck with music and madnessI track him in vain! … [Read more...] about In the Forest, By: Oscar Wilde