Poet Hound

“Luna Park is a review of little and literary magazines begun in 2007 as a blog. We regularly feature excerpts from little magazines, review...

One of the most challenging things about completing your poem is reading it over to make sure each line is just as important as the next. F...

This looks like a brand new press full of excitement and promise. I highly recommend you check them out and submit before they are overtake...

Original poem by Kim Addonizio: What Was The streets fill with cabs and limos, with the happy laughter of the very drunk; the benches in Was...

Charles Bukowski was born in 1920 and passed away in 1994 at the age of 73. He was a cult favorite in his time and his critics thought he wa...

I was just notified that donorschoose.org has issued a blogger challenge to encourage people to check out their site. I have been involved ...

As a poet hound I do so love other hounds, and pugs are adorable. Plus, pugnacious is such a fun word that doesn’t get used nearly enough i...

Today I’d like to invite you to do something a little more involved than sitting down to write a poem. I want you to find a poem that you l...

Act now or miss out! The open submission is only open from Aug. 1st to November 1st 2007. You need a cover letter and a contributor’s note...

Proposing? So soon? Well…yes! For years populations around the world make fun of their best writers, painters, innovators, and famous pe...

Gwendolyn Brooks was born June 7th, 1917 and grew up in Chicago. She became a poet before marrying another writer, Henry L. Blakely, in 1939...

This web-site publishes chapbooks on-line. It’s a great site because you can download all of the chapbooks for free and print them out for ...

Ted Kooser is a Pulitzer prize winner of Poetry, and I have in my hand his book Delights and Shadows which is copyrighted for 2004. I found ...

Reginald Shepherd is a published poet who also posts his opinion in his own blog at: http://reginaldshepherd.blogspot.com/ He is very eloqu...

When I first started writing poems I made the same mistakes most beginning poets do. For one, I was much too wordy. Another was that I was...