Comstock Review

04/15/2026

Spring is awakening - have you been writing?

You bet you have.

Muriel Craft Bailey Memorial Single poem contest is OPEN
and waiting.

2026 Judge: Donald Revell

The Comstock Review has been publishing poetry since 1986 and each year runs an annual poetry contest plus a chapbook contest.

04/13/2026

CONGRATULATIONS TO THE 2025 JESSIE BRYCE NILES CHAPBOOK
WINNERS!!

Thank you to everyone for your poetry and your patience.
A special thanks to our Judge, Georgia A. Popoff!!

The Comstock Review has been publishing poetry since 1986 and each year runs an annual poetry contest plus a chapbook contest.

03/31/2026

THE MURIEL CRAFT BAILEY SINGLE POEM CONTEST OPENS TOMORROW!!!

The Comstock Review has been publishing poetry since 1986 and each year runs an annual poetry contest plus a chapbook contest.

03/18/2026

NOW AVAILABLE - NEW WORK
FROM OUR 2015 CHAPBOOK WINNER, James K. Zimmerman

I'm pleased to inform you of the publication of my fifth book of poems, "Unbroken Circle, Unending Thread." This may be confusing, since I just sent an email 2 months ago announcing the publication of "Uncertainty," my fourth book of poems.
The poems in “Unbroken Circle, Unending Thread” hew to Mary Oliver’s admonition: “Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it.” The focus is on the changing seasons and the passage of time – beginning in winter and returning there in an epilogue – with a subtext of attunement to both the subtle joys of experiencing the evolving and revolving of the year and to the sense of loss inherent in the inevitability of impermanence. Embedded in the subconscious of these poems is the centrality of climate change and its disorienting and deleterious effects on all inhabitants – human and otherwise – of planet earth.

If you're interested in purchasing a copy of this book -- or the two that preceded it -- here are links:

Unbroken Circle, Unending Thread

- James K. Zimmerman

02/19/2026

Asking ourselves every day

02/07/2026

https://bottlecap.press/products/uncejkz

New Work by the author of "Family Cookout," our 2015 Chapbook winner!

Poetry, chapbook, 40 pages, from Bottlecap Features. In Uncertainty, James K. Zimmerman weaves a narrative thread that begins with the Big Bang – and what may have come before that – and then takes the reader on a journey into the depth and breadth of the Anthropocene Era. How we regard oil – ...

02/06/2026

WE ARE STILL HERE AND WE WELCOME YOUR SUBMISSIONS.
DON'T DESPAIR!
WE LOVE YOU ALL.

GOOD NEWS IS ON THE WAY.

AND OUR OPEN READING IS ON UNTIL APRIL FOOL'S DAY!

THE WORK HAS BEEN EXCEPTIONAL.

THANK YOU FOR YOUR INQUIRIES AND YOUR SUPPORT.

01/03/2026

2025 Muriel Craft Bailey Single Poem Contest Winners!!

Thank you to everyone who participated, and
Congratulations to our winners of course! ~

01/02/2026

https://asterismbooks.com/product/one-trail-of-longing-another-of-string

Now available - new work from long-time contributor and friend of Comstock Review, Carla Panciera!

In One Trail of Longing, the Other of String, Carla Panciera communes with hawks, cows, owls, and loved ones, reflects on girlhood, motherhood, daughterhood, friendships, and the loss of parents, and wrestles with what bearing one's past has on the present and on the future.

01/01/2026

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vTjdjw6a-is

2005 MCB Judge Cornelius Eady today.

Award-winning poet Cornelius Eady delivered a stirring poem titled “Proof” during the inauguration of New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani. His words centered ...