Passager

22/07/2026

Passager memoirist and cover artist, Susan Baur, has a memoir coming out from University of Massachusetts Press. Susan, congratulations on your new book, Swimming with Turtles!

22/07/2026

Susan Baur's art graced the cover of our 2025 winter issue and her memoir was one of the highlights of that same issue. An organization she founded on Cape Cod, Old Ladies Against Underwater Garbage, was just featured on the front page of The New York Times. Congratulations Susan!

20/07/2026

Congratulations to Passager poet Kirby Olson on the publication of his collection, Night Shift at the Utopian Turtletop Factory. Here's his poem "Jersey (July)" that appeared in Passager:

JERSEY (JULY)
(By the sea, vacancy.)
In the wading pool, a litter
of starfish.
In the surf, a dollar
floating, a green paper
fish.
(By the sea, vacancy.)
A prop airplane, lone above Cape May,
lone above the lighthouse, carrying
a ripple-word banner . . .
Baby, it is easy to push
the beach ball
back and forth,
forth . . .
Baby, it's easy to be
at the sea.
(In that vacancy
by the sea.)

16/07/2026

Congratulations to Passager poet Kirby Olson on the publication of his collection, Night Shift at the Utopian Turtletop Factory. Here's his poem "Jersey (July)" that appeared in Passager:

JERSEY (JULY)


(By the sea, vacancy.)

In the wading pool, a litter
of starfish.

In the surf, a dollar
floating, a green paper
fish.

(By the sea, vacancy.)

A prop airplane, lone above Cape May,
lone above the lighthouse, carrying
a ripple-word banner . . .

Baby, it is easy to push
the beach ball

back and forth,
forth . . .

Baby, it's easy to be
at the sea.

(In that vacancy
by the sea.)

08/07/2026

Congratulations to Passager poet Elizabeth Esris on the upcoming publication of her chapbook, Traces of DNA! Her poem that won honorable mention in our poetry contest, "A Letter 60 Years Too Late," is included in this collection.

13/05/2026

Congratulations to Passager poet Julie Esther Fisher on her debut collection, forthcoming from Finishing Line Press in late August. Her poem, "As the Acorn Forgives the Oak," appeared in our 2025 Poetry Contest Issue.

21/04/2026

Our poetry contest deadline is April 30. Our editors want to read your work! Passager Poet receives $1,000, interview and publication. All honorable mentions published.

Passager Poetry Contest Issue DEADLINE EXTENDED: APRIL 30Publication: August/SeptemberAccepted genres: poetry onlyUp to 5 poems, 40-line max ea.$20 reading fee, includes 1-year subscription to Passager*Winner receives $1000 prize plus publication and featured interview.All honorable mentions publish...

16/04/2026

Our Honorable Mentions in the Henry Morgenthau III First Book Poetry Prize. Congratulations poets!

16/04/2026

The runner-up and finalists in our Henry Morgenthau III First Book Poetry Prize. Congratulations to these accomplished poets.

16/04/2026