"RockPaperPoem" Voted a Top 25 Best Lit Mag of 2023!
The mission of RockPaperPoem is to publish the finest contemporary poetry available in English in an attractive, easily accessible, online platform for readers in the U.S. and around the world. We seek work from all individuals, especially historically underrepresented voices in poetry communities—BIPOC persons, members of the LGBTQIA+ community, persons of any ability, and individuals of all ethnic and cultural backgrounds.
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RPP's 2024 “Pushcart Prize” Nominations
“Deadbolt” – Valerie Bacharach
“most everyone we know is swimming” – Mela Blust
“Dotted Memory” – Lauren Camp
“Tahlequah the Orca Once Carried Her Dead Child for Seventeen Days” – Meggie Royer
“Blue-Spotted Salamander” – Ella Shively
“Figures From the Famine” – Heather Hallberg Yanda
RPP's 2024 “Best of the Net” Nominations
“Photographers of War, 2022” – Idris Anderson
“most everyone we know is swimming” – Mela Blust
“Headscarves” – Roxana Cazan
“Male Mammoths Died in 'Silly Ways' More Often Than Females, Study Finds” – Susan Blackwell Ramsey
“Tahlequah the Orca Once Carried Her Dead Child for Seventeen Days” – Meggie Royer
“Elegy” – C. J. Trotter
ISSN: 2837-5815