Guides to Poetry Quarterly
Two pages cover what most readers and poets want to know first: how to enter the contest, and what a subscription opens.
Two ways in
Poetry Quarterly has published poetry every season since 2009, forty-seven issues so far, with one editor reading every submission personally. This page gathers the two places to go next: entering a poem, or reading the issues already in print.
The Rebecca Lard Award is the journal’s annual contest for a single poem, named for Rebecca Hammond Lard, the first poet published in Indiana. Every entrant receives a year of Poetry Quarterly along with the chance at the $500 prize, so the entry fee buys more than one shot at it.
A Poetry Quarterly Online subscription is the standing way to read the journal. Twenty dollars a year opens all forty-seven back issues plus each new issue as it publishes; the page below describes exactly what that includes.
Start here
- The Rebecca Lard Award — the annual contest: prize, entry fee, past winners, and how to enter.
- Subscribe to Poetry Quarterly — what a $20-a-year subscription opens, and what a typical issue holds.
Whichever brought you here, start with the page above that matches it.