“My Stillborn Son, the Moon” Wins 2025 Applewhite Poetry Prize
Karen Sherk Chio takes the top prize, and all poets who placed and were selected as finalists included in our latest news.
Karen Sherk Chio takes the top prize, and all poets who placed and were selected as finalists included in our latest news.
Established poet new to NC takes the 2025 Jaki Shelton Green Performance Poetry Prize
Announcing the winners of the 2024 Applewhite Poetry Prize
Announcing the winners of the Second Annual Jaki Shelton Green Performance Poetry Competition!
Friday from the Archives: “Lamp” by John Thomas York, the first Applewhite Prize winning poem from NCLR 21 (2012)
Friday from the Archives: “what poetry can do and how it can do it”: An Interview with NCLR’s Poetry Editor Jeffrey Franklin by James Smith from NCLR 16 (2007)
Have you submitted to either of our April poetry contests yet? If your written poem is chosen by our group of first-pass readers, it will then go to our long-standing Poetry Editor Jeff Franklin for review.
The 2023 Applewhite winner is Janis Harrington. Michael White and Debra Kaufman were also chosen.
Announcing the winners of the inaugural Jaki Shelton Green Performance Poetry Competition!
Friday from the Archives: “The last ghost is always the lies that are told”: An Interview with Khalisa Rae Thompson by Maia L. Butler from NCLR Issue 31 (2022)
This week, we are continuing highlighting performance poetry for our first annual Jaki Shelton Green Performance Poetry Contest.
Friday from the Archives: “Glenis Redmond: Poet, Teaching Artist, Griot” written by Lisa Sarasohn from NCLR Issue 28 (2019)