Poetry and Craft for the Riff-Raff. System-shattering poetry & essay experiments www.publicschoolpoetry.comhttps://bsky.app/profile/publicschoolpoetry.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/publicschoolpoetry.bsky.social/post/3mkxcxcnzbs2eOur readership doubled last issue and then doubled again with our current issue! And wow, the submissions we're getting! Keep 'em coming. Next deadline June 1st.03 May 2026 13:59 +0000at://did:plc:ny2cdahaxg7hpfa3rvooo5za/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkxcxcnzbs2ehttps://bsky.app/profile/publicschoolpoetry.bsky.social/post/3mjzfxhrq4k2cTonight! PSP Issue #6 reading launch with our amazing contributors. One of whom is Kristie Williams who may read her poem "All That I Know of Tree Sex and Panties Was Unearthed at Another Poet's Reading" https://www.facebook.com/events/1677694543409272/21 Apr 2026 16:33 +0000at://did:plc:ny2cdahaxg7hpfa3rvooo5za/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjzfxhrq4k2chttps://bsky.app/profile/publicschoolpoetry.bsky.social/post/3mjpf4wx5ns2e"They tell me to exit you must go through" "Ikea Panic Attack" by Claire Denson https://www.publicschoolpoetry.com/pages/claire-denison#anchors-mcqkhcl4417 Apr 2026 16:52 +0000at://did:plc:ny2cdahaxg7hpfa3rvooo5za/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjpf4wx5ns2ehttps://bsky.app/profile/publicschoolpoetry.bsky.social/post/3mjkrx3jotk2bIt's 5pm and Public School Poetry is officially open for submissions! If the thought of writing a 5-paragraph essay in response to another (anonymous) contributor's poems strikes that magic combo of excitement and nerves, send us some work! publicschoolpoetry.submittable.com/submit https://publicschoolpoetry.submittable.com/submit15 Apr 2026 20:58 +0000at://did:plc:ny2cdahaxg7hpfa3rvooo5za/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjkrx3jotk2bhttps://bsky.app/profile/publicschoolpoetry.bsky.social/post/3miyooues6k2oIssue #6 is live! Come for popping-out-of-a-hole-screaming vibes, luminescent creatures yanked into nightmare worlds that still use their muscled brilliance to sing, and for our ten gorgeous poets. @mehpoeting.bsky.social @sallypoet.bsky.social www.publicschoolpoetry.com/current https://www.publicschoolpoetry.com/current08 Apr 2026 16:12 +0000at://did:plc:ny2cdahaxg7hpfa3rvooo5za/app.bsky.feed.post/3miyooues6k2ohttps://bsky.app/profile/publicschoolpoetry.bsky.social/post/3mioabnbogs2w"Stop One Clock" and feel this sharp dagger of love poem from @jessicawalsh.bsky.social https://www.publicschoolpoetry.com/pages/jessica-walsh#anchors-mcqkhcl4404 Apr 2026 12:27 +0000at://did:plc:ny2cdahaxg7hpfa3rvooo5za/app.bsky.feed.post/3mioabnbogs2whttps://bsky.app/profile/publicschoolpoetry.bsky.social/post/3mik5oiv6o22k6 days until Issue 6! Have you read the roundontini in Issue #5 from @kavetchnik.bsky.social yet?! Be brave. It's for Dallas, Who Bites https://www.publicschoolpoetry.com/pages/jen-karetnick#anchors-mcq02 Apr 2026 21:30 +0000at://did:plc:ny2cdahaxg7hpfa3rvooo5za/app.bsky.feed.post/3mik5oiv6o22khttps://bsky.app/profile/publicschoolpoetry.bsky.social/post/3mih6bnstic2mShiny new person machine poem by PSP editor @davidww.bsky.social up on HAD today! [contains quote post or other embedded content]01 Apr 2026 17:03 +0000at://did:plc:ny2cdahaxg7hpfa3rvooo5za/app.bsky.feed.post/3mih6bnstic2mhttps://bsky.app/profile/publicschoolpoetry.bsky.social/post/3mieex5ceyk2iPosting Issue 5 poems every day until the launch of Issue 6! Here's Carrie Strand Tebeau's electrifying Wolf Day sequence. "You do not choose / the Wolf Day. You have no say." https://www.publicschoolpoetry.com/pages/carrie-strand-tebeau31 Mar 2026 14:24 +0000at://did:plc:ny2cdahaxg7hpfa3rvooo5za/app.bsky.feed.post/3mieex5ceyk2ihttps://bsky.app/profile/publicschoolpoetry.bsky.social/post/3mhxsbzvd322qCongratulations to Shou Jie Eng, whose poem "Shoreline Sketch" (Issue #4) is a 2026 Best of the Net finalist! "they dug their feet into the sand towards the fire towards the fire the sand was/ warmer they noticed their feet noticed" www.publicschoolpoetry.com/shou-jie-eng https://www.publicschoolpoetry.com/shou-jie-eng26 Mar 2026 14:18 +0000at://did:plc:ny2cdahaxg7hpfa3rvooo5za/app.bsky.feed.post/3mhxsbzvd322qhttps://bsky.app/profile/publicschoolpoetry.bsky.social/post/3mhlbkxq4qs2sFinalizing our contributor's page for Issue #6! This page is always something special and this next issue's gonna melt some cold hearts. Our poets are invited to share a current photo or a photo from some other time gone by. Bios from our current issue ❤️ https://www.publicschoolpoetry.com/contributor-pages/issue-5-contributors21 Mar 2026 14:47 +0000at://did:plc:ny2cdahaxg7hpfa3rvooo5za/app.bsky.feed.post/3mhlbkxq4qs2shttps://bsky.app/profile/publicschoolpoetry.bsky.social/post/3me54rc6oss2uLoving Public School Poetry contributor Amorak Huey's new collection, Mouth! [contains quote post or other embedded content]05 Feb 2026 19:28 +0000at://did:plc:ny2cdahaxg7hpfa3rvooo5za/app.bsky.feed.post/3me54rc6oss2uhttps://bsky.app/profile/publicschoolpoetry.bsky.social/post/3mckcxwef5k2fCheck out Public School Poetry contributor, Shou Jie Eng's, poem "Alexa" in the new issue of @sixthfinch.bsky.social. Pepper, grinding, empire sixthfinch.com/eng1.html https://sixthfinch.com/eng1.html16 Jan 2026 14:34 +0000at://did:plc:ny2cdahaxg7hpfa3rvooo5za/app.bsky.feed.post/3mckcxwef5k2fhttps://bsky.app/profile/publicschoolpoetry.bsky.social/post/3ma4pkx3xnk2lAcceptances sent out! Issue #6 is gonna be a stunner16 Dec 2025 17:51 +0000at://did:plc:ny2cdahaxg7hpfa3rvooo5za/app.bsky.feed.post/3ma4pkx3xnk2lhttps://bsky.app/profile/publicschoolpoetry.bsky.social/post/3m6zij24jyk2jSubs have closed for Issue 6 of Public School Poetry, and we're reading through an an amazing bunch of submissions! Thanks for making our Vice Principal selecting work an exciting challenge.02 Dec 2025 17:42 +0000at://did:plc:ny2cdahaxg7hpfa3rvooo5za/app.bsky.feed.post/3m6zij24jyk2jhttps://bsky.app/profile/publicschoolpoetry.bsky.social/post/3m6pewzamek2tOn this Black Friday, come on down to Public School Poetry, where we have NOTHING TO SELL! No products, only poems. In fact, send us some work, if you are interested our unique poem-essay exchange format. Submission window closes Dec. 1! www.publicschoolpoetry.com https://www.publicschoolpoetry.com/28 Nov 2025 17:11 +0000at://did:plc:ny2cdahaxg7hpfa3rvooo5za/app.bsky.feed.post/3m6pewzamek2thttps://bsky.app/profile/publicschoolpoetry.bsky.social/post/3m3g467ad622rPSP contributors Molly Spencer, Keith Taylor, Jen Sperry Steinorth & Jeff Kass at our annual pizza party reading. Subs for Issue #6 are open!17 Oct 2025 20:25 +0000at://did:plc:ny2cdahaxg7hpfa3rvooo5za/app.bsky.feed.post/3m3g467ad622rhttps://bsky.app/profile/publicschoolpoetry.bsky.social/post/3m3d5drjlsc2eFor the next six glorious weeks, the submission window for Issue #6 of Public School Poetry is open! Homework is due December 1st! publicschoolpoetry.submittable.com/submit https://publicschoolpoetry.submittable.com/submit16 Oct 2025 16:08 +0000at://did:plc:ny2cdahaxg7hpfa3rvooo5za/app.bsky.feed.post/3m3d5drjlsc2ehttps://bsky.app/profile/publicschoolpoetry.bsky.social/post/3m27vcyiy5c2dSo excited to check out Laura Passin's new book! (featuring one of our favorite 'A Wrinkle in Time'-themed poems... www.publicschoolpoetry.com/laura-passin) [contains quote post or other embedded content]02 Oct 2025 15:41 +0000at://did:plc:ny2cdahaxg7hpfa3rvooo5za/app.bsky.feed.post/3m27vcyiy5c2dhttps://bsky.app/profile/publicschoolpoetry.bsky.social/post/3lyxgce57rk2jIssue #5 reading tonight @ 7pm et! DM for the link. Our contributors meet each other for the first time & discover who wrote what about whose poems. Mystical experiences happen. & we send postcards!16 Sep 2025 13:26 +0000at://did:plc:ny2cdahaxg7hpfa3rvooo5za/app.bsky.feed.post/3lyxgce57rk2jhttps://bsky.app/profile/publicschoolpoetry.bsky.social/post/3lyvrrbrh5s2vThe Countdown is over! Issue #5 has just begun www.publicschoolpoetry.com/current-issue https://www.publicschoolpoetry.com/current-issue15 Sep 2025 21:46 +0000at://did:plc:ny2cdahaxg7hpfa3rvooo5za/app.bsky.feed.post/3lyvrrbrh5s2vhttps://bsky.app/profile/publicschoolpoetry.bsky.social/post/3lyq4kndws22zThe TWO DAY countdown to Issue #5 has begun! And will end very shortly! See you Monday on publicschoolpoetry.com13 Sep 2025 15:43 +0000at://did:plc:ny2cdahaxg7hpfa3rvooo5za/app.bsky.feed.post/3lyq4kndws22zhttps://bsky.app/profile/publicschoolpoetry.bsky.social/post/3lxdiayzqp22dWant to know more about Public School Poetry? We answered questions! [contains quote post or other embedded content]26 Aug 2025 21:42 +0000at://did:plc:ny2cdahaxg7hpfa3rvooo5za/app.bsky.feed.post/3lxdiayzqp22dhttps://bsky.app/profile/publicschoolpoetry.bsky.social/post/3lrvrvkpgac27Oh hey! PSP Vice-Principal Ellen Stone is on the radio in an hour (5pm EST) with the Living Writers series: wcbn.org18 Jun 2025 19:52 +0000at://did:plc:ny2cdahaxg7hpfa3rvooo5za/app.bsky.feed.post/3lrvrvkpgac27https://bsky.app/profile/publicschoolpoetry.bsky.social/post/3lrnwneopjc2uOn Father's Day, a final poem from Issue #4: "Antigone Canadensis," by Thomas Lynch. "A hatch of ladybugs in mid October and hornets hover in the sunlit air sugar maples redden, yellow; everywhere" www.publicschoolpoetry.com/thomas-lynch Last day to send us poetry for Issue #5!15 Jun 2025 16:55 +0000at://did:plc:ny2cdahaxg7hpfa3rvooo5za/app.bsky.feed.post/3lrnwneopjc2uhttps://bsky.app/profile/publicschoolpoetry.bsky.social/post/3lrk65sxsbc2x2 days left to submit! Have poems by 2 excellent poets: Shou Jie Eng & @patriciaclarkpoet.bsky.social www.publicschoolpoetry.com publicschoolpoetry.submittable.com/submit14 Jun 2025 04:59 +0000at://did:plc:ny2cdahaxg7hpfa3rvooo5za/app.bsky.feed.post/3lrk65sxsbc2xhttps://bsky.app/profile/publicschoolpoetry.bsky.social/post/3lrhit4wge22h"It was a summer of violence and wisteria. The clouds were clambering beastly heads and raining pink rain." from "Iphegenia," by @kdawn999.bsky.social https://www.publicschoolpoetry.com/kimberly-gibson-tran (honestly, one of those poems where every line could be a pull quote. So, so good!)13 Jun 2025 03:32 +0000at://did:plc:ny2cdahaxg7hpfa3rvooo5za/app.bsky.feed.post/3lrhit4wge22h