Interim: A Journal of Poetry & Poetics

Interim: A Journal of Poetry & Poetics A journal of contemporary poetics and poetry Interim is edited by Claudia Keelan and Andrew S. Nicholson.

The journal was founded in Seattle in 1944 by Wilbur Stevens, a contemporary of Theodore Roethke, and has been housed at UNLV since the 1950s. Contributors have included John Ashbery, Robin Bl**er, Robert Creeley, Brenda Hillman, Paul Hoover, Pierre Joris, Nathaniel Mackey, Laura Mullen, Alice Notley, Anne Waldman, Ronaldo Wilson,and William Carlos Williams, among many others.

Now live—the latest digital issue of Interim, guest edited by Sada Malumfashi.  The poems and essays gathered here inhab...
07/02/2026

Now live—the latest digital issue of Interim, guest edited by Sada Malumfashi. The poems and essays gathered here inhabit, as Sada writes in his introduction,”the charged spaces between languages, histories, bodies, and geographies, where what cannot be fully translated becomes precisely what must be spoken.” Thanks to Sada, we can visit those “charged spaces” in Volume 41.4 of Interim. Read now at: https://www.interimpoetics.org/ mfaunlv

And the Test Site Poetry Series 2025 finalists are:Flow Laws by Abbey Frederick, In the Dark and in the Sea by Barbara T...
05/28/2026

And the Test Site Poetry Series 2025 finalists are:

Flow Laws by Abbey Frederick, In the Dark and in the Sea by Barbara Tomash, Last Seen at Creatton by Hayley Phillips, Ontario by James McCorkle, Social Comedies by David Blair

Congratulations finalists! The Test Site Poetry Series Prize and Betsy Joiner Flanagan Award in Poetry information can be found on our website: https://www.interimpoetics.org/.

Attention please, the following is an important announcement... Poetry, essay, hybrid and translation submissions will c...
05/03/2026

Attention please, the following is an important announcement... Poetry, essay, hybrid and translation submissions will close May 15! Don’t miss your chance to submit this reading period. https://www.interimpoetics.org/

Don’t miss your chance to submit during our open reading period—now through May 15th! Genres: poetry, essay, translation...
04/08/2026

Don’t miss your chance to submit during our open reading period—now through May 15th! Genres: poetry, essay, translation (poetry or essay), hybrid or multimedia work. Visit our website for details: https://www.interimpoetics.org/

Join Geoffrey Babbitt and Kathryn Cowles as they read from their newly published prize-winning poetry collections. Spons...
03/12/2026

Join Geoffrey Babbitt and Kathryn Cowles as they read from their newly published prize-winning poetry collections. Sponsored by Interim, the reading will be followed by a Q&A and book signing.

Wed. March 25, from 7pm PT 519 S 6th St Ste 100, Las Vegas, NV 89101

Geoffrey Babbitt is author of A Grain of Sand in Lambeth, which won Interim’s 2023 Betsy Joiner Flanagan Poetry Prize, and Appendices Pulled from a Study on Light from Spuyten Duyvil. He holds a PhD from Utah, edits Seneca Review, and teaches at Hobart & William Smith.

Kathryn Cowles is author of The Strange Wondrous Works of Eleanor Eleanor (winner of Fence’s Modern Poets Prize & a Poetry Society of America Prize), Maps and Transcripts of the Ordinary World (Milkweed), and Eleanor, Eleanor, not your real name (Bearstar’s Brunsman Poetry Prize). At HWS Colleges, she teaches, directs Trias Writer’s Residency (in rotation), and coedits Seneca Review’s Beyond Category section.

Announcing the semifinalists (and submitted collections) for the 2025 Test Site Poetry Series awards...more updates to c...
03/10/2026

Announcing the semifinalists (and submitted collections) for the 2025 Test Site Poetry Series awards...more updates to come!

Adam Edelman for Drift Signals
Andrew Giles for The forceless field
Andy Young for Apocalyptic Domestic
Barbara Tomash for In the Dark and in the Sea
Bern Mulvey for Recovery
Bevin O’Connor for this clatter of sky
Brandon Krieg for Other Worlds Bore Me
David Blair for Social Comedies
Diana Woodcock for A Fire Raging in My Hair
Ethan Fortuna for body of the bather
Freesia McKee for Tender Experiments
George Young for Notes From The Blue Dot
Hayley Phillips for Last Seen at Creation
Irene Cooper for ODE: Octets & Decimas: an Eremoscenario
Jared Hayley for Living Amends
Jeanne Morel for On the West Most Edge
Jerome Gagnon for What Lives On: New & Selected Poems
Jose Medina for Only the Dead Talk Let Me Talk This Much 23
Marcella Remund for Some of This is True
Marika Ismail for Strange Math
Nathaniel Lachenmeyer for These are not my thoughts
Sarah Rosenthal for Untitled poem about a red box
slp pieplow for LOVE LETTERS & ILLOGIC (Poemses 2021-2024)
Swati Rana for After Westward Expansion
Timothy Duffy for The Rabbit in the Archive

Learn more about the The Test Site Poetry Series Prize and Betsy Joiner Flanagan Award in Poetry on our website: https://www.interimpoetics.org/.

Open submissions are welcome from 1 September through May 15. Please follow specific genre guidelines when formatting an...
03/09/2026

Open submissions are welcome from 1 September through May 15. Please follow specific genre guidelines when formatting and uploading your submission and limit your cover letter to 150 words or less. Although we do accept simultaneous submissions, we do not accept work that has been previously published either in print or online.

Genres: poetry, essay, translation (poetry or essay), hybrid or multimedia work. Visit our website for details: https://www.interimpoetics.org/

Visit Interim at AWP booth 777 to have your copies of these award-winning books signed. 2023 The Test Site Poetry Series...
03/05/2026

Visit Interim at AWP booth 777 to have your copies of these award-winning books signed. 2023 The Test Site Poetry Series Winner “A Grain of Sand in Lambeth” by Geoffrey Babbitt and Betsy Joiner Flanagan Award in Poetry Winner “The Long Now Conditions Permit: Poems” by Jami Macarty.

Thursday
Jami Macarty: 11:00–noon
Geoffrey Babbitt: noon-1:00

Friday
Jami Macarty: 2:00–3:00
Geoff Babbitt: 3:00–4:00

For information on The Test Site Poetry Series and Betsy Joiner Flanagan Award in Poetry visit us online. www.interimpoetics.org

Call Extended!Intertidal: Poetry from Singapore, Edited by Daryl Lim Wei JieNow Ending Mon, Mar 23, 2026 Featuring poetr...
02/18/2026

Call Extended!
Intertidal: Poetry from Singapore, Edited by Daryl Lim Wei Jie
Now Ending Mon, Mar 23, 2026
Featuring poetry from the thalassocratic island-city-nation of Singapore. Give us poetry from the littoral and the liminal. Give us poetry that stinks of Singapore. Gives us poetry that ignores Singapore. Give hybrid work that mixes and messes. Give us poems with many languages. Give us poems from the borderlands of language. Above all, we’re looking to surprise readers with Singapore’s chimera strangeness, its slipperiness, its chameleon versatility...

https://www.interimpoetics.org/

Now live: “The Unwanted” Special Themed Issue at interimpoetics.org (link in bio). Featuring: poetry by Viola Chen, Stua...
01/29/2026

Now live: “The Unwanted” Special Themed Issue at interimpoetics.org (link in bio). Featuring: poetry by Viola Chen, Stuart Greenhouse, JP White, Ezra Fox, Laura Cesarco Eglin, Susan Goslee, Shira Dentz, Don Hogle, Madison McCartha, and Derek Thomas Dew; translation by Elena Rivera and Kaveh Bassiri; nonfiction by Anemone Beaulier, Angela Townsend, and Anne Lesley Selcer; fiction by Ralph Uttaro, Laton Carter, and Ru Marshall and cover art by Kai Wingo. Issue editor: Madina Tuhbatullina ().

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