Comstock Review

07/17/2025

The 2025 Jessie Bryce Niles Chapbook contest opens August 1st!

07/17/2025

Once again, we have passed another contest year, and once again we at The Comstock Review would like to thank everyone who took the time to send us your work.

It has been another record year for submissions, and in these very difficult times, there are no words to adequately convey how much that means, and how much our readers and authors have meant to us.

We are humbled.

As we approach our 40th anniversary (it seems unbelievable!) we want to thank you again for being such amazing and conscientious writers. Poetry matters, you are telling us, and it matters now as much as it ever did. We all feel it in our bones.

Onward, my poet friends, onward. We will be here as long as you want us to be here. And we are ever grateful for that. Wherever life takes you, poetry will come along.

Embrace it.

with love,
your Editors.

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

06/04/2025

CONGRATULATIONS TO

MAURA STANTON– “Werner Herzog’s Ecstasy”

OUR FIRST PUSHCART WINNER

AND TO OUR NOMINEES

Paula Colangelo – “Saudade”
Marda Messick – “Tight-Lipped Red-Lipped Ode”
Jacalyn Shelley – “The Annunciation”
Lisken Van Pelt Dus – “In the Beginning”
Alison Stone – “Demeter in Spring”

All of these fine poems can be found in our Summer 2024 Issue
(Vol. 38.1)
ORDER YOUR COPY
or Subscribe today!

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06/03/2025

WE ARE PROUD TO ANNOUNCE
That we have a Pushcart Prize Winner!

"Werner Herzog's Ecstasy" by Maura Stanton

will be awarded the prize and published in the
2026 "Best of the Small Presses" Anthology

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hooray for poetry!

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

05/23/2025

https://comstockreview.submittable.com/submit/324740/2024-prize-chapbook-lost-dogs-by-mary-lou-brockett-devine

NOW AVAILABLE
OUR 2024 CHAPBOOK WINNER, "LOST DOGS"
by Mary-Lou Brockett-Devine
$16.00 (from Submittable - link above)
or comstockreview.org

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

05/10/2025

Almost 40 years of looking good on your shelf.

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04/24/2025

“One of my secret instructions to myself as a poet is: “Whatever you do, don’t be boring.” Anne Sexton

04/07/2025

The Muriel Craft Bailey single poem contest is open!

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04/03/2025

“The world is full of paper. Write to me.” — Agha Shahid Ali

04/01/2025

We would like to thank everyone who submitted to our free open reading. It was another banner year for submissions to our journal, and it is gratifying to have so many friends and supporters.

In these challenging times, artistic expression feels more important and necessary than ever. And more threatened than ever. Every poem is an act of boldness and generosity of spirit, whatever sentiment may lie within. Art is an act of giving.

Thank you again for your continued support. Rapidly heading toward our fortieth year, we are aware of the greatness of the small legacy we help keep alive.

The Editors (happily going through your work!)

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04/01/2025

"My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity." —Wilfred Owen

03/31/2025

Coming soon!

Our 2024 Chapbook Winner
"Lost Dogs" by Mary-Lou Brockett-Devine