LAST DAY to Submit to NaPoMo!

Friends of IHLR, today, October 15, is your last day to submit to our 2027 NaPoMo Contest! You can submit via our Submittable link here until 11:59 p.m. Central Time. Each spring, our NaPoMo Issue has brought together new voices and established poets in a full-color digital edition paired with original artwork.

Poets may submit up to five poems in one file for consideration using our Submittable form. The entry fee is $18 and includes a year's subscription to our print issues. Judge Geffrey Davis will select the ten best submissions, one winner and nine finalists, for publication in our digital issue, which will be available for free to all readers via ISSUU. The winner will receive $1,000. Two runners-up will receive $150 and $100, and the remaining finalists will receive $50. You can find previous winners, finalists, and semi-finalists and more information about the contest here.

We'll announce the semi-finalists, finalists, and winner in December of this year. But before time runs out tonight, please send us your best poems, from the projects you've been working on for years to the gems you wrote over the summer. We look forward to reading your work very soon!