Welcome to Public School Poetry. We’re glad you’re here.

 

 

Public School Poetry is an online poetry and craft journal. Despite the name, we are not a school or student-specific publication. We value non-hierarchical communities,  supportive engagement with unique perspectives, and above all else—the system-shattering experience of great poetry.

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This journal is a leap of faith and an ongoing experiment. Each contributor to Public School Poetry
agrees to write “a five-paragraph essay” on another contributor’s poems that we randomly and
anonymously assign them. Poems and essays appear together in each issue. We host readings for each issue and nominate for Pushcart and Best of the Net.

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We believe poems create conversations, that conversations create poems, and that no one voice should control either. Send us work you’re passionate to share!

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