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Editor: Amanda Johnston Associate Editor: Jae Nichelle Monthly Feature Friday Features Visual Artist Friday Features POETRY Friday Feature: Nina Oteria Nina Oteria is a poet, artist, and former educator She performs in Durham, Raleigh, and Chapel Hill based poetry reading series'. She is one of the founding poets of the Corcoran Poetry Wall mural installation in Durham, NC. Nina uses poetry and art as a means to heal hersel FICTION Friday Feature: Leslie T.

has been awarded the Pushcart Prize for “ Black Person Head Bob ” published June 9, 2023, as a Torch Friday Feature! Her work has appeared or is upcoming in Typehouse, South Florida Poetry Journal, Cutbank Journal, and We accept submissions of poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, and script (plays and screenplays) by Since 1976, hundreds of presses and thousands of writers of short stories, poetry and essays have been

< Back Celebrating Black Women's Contributions to Poetry All Month Long Brittany Heckard Apr 1, 2025 Black History Month and Women’s History Month, we’re keeping the acknowledgments alive with National Poetry Your poetry is ignited with historical takes, generational proverbs, and collective snaps and praises Check out how you can celebrate with Torch during National Poetry Month below! , Tanya Shirley Read poetry by our Friday Features Watch on YouTube Torch’s Solar Saturday Showcase featuring

< Back Celebrating National Poetry Month with an Ode to Poets Brittany Heckard Apr 5, 2024 Every April This month, Torch is celebrating National Poetry Month by pouring into our community. We’re starting off celebrating National Poetry Month by highlighting our April Feature, Yona Harvey. She is making Texas and poetry history as the first Black woman to be the state’s laureate. Salon Torch Magazine Read our April 2024 Feature, Yona Harvey Read the poetry Friday Features by Isha

Check out our three events below: Friday, November 15 at the Carver Museum: Join us for a free kickoff the Speakeasy: In partnership with Texas Book Festival, join us at 8pm for an inspiring evening of poetry She is the author of four collections of poetry, Beg No Pardon, winner of the Perugia Press Prize and , and the Steven Dunn Poetry Prize, as well as fellowships from the Summer Literary Series (Kenya) and Renee’’s poetry, fiction and nonfiction has been anthologized and published widely.

The Poetry Foundation grant will support Torch Features, ensuring that all published writers are paid The Poetry Foundation has donated over $6.3 million to U.S. Torch has featured work by Toi Derricotte, Tayari Jones, Sharon Bridgforth, Crystal Wilkinson, Patricia About the Poetry Foundation The Poetry Foundation recognizes the power of words to transform lives. , and share poetry.

Jones serves as Director for Northwestern University Press and acquires poetry for the TriQuarterly Books Jones is the author of Vessel: Poems (Milkweed Editions), winner of the Midwest Book Award and featured She has been honored with the Gwendolyn Brooks Poetry Award, the Margaret Walker Short Story Award, and Jones has been featured on PBS Newshour, the Academy of American Poets, espnW, and an international poetry Board President for the Cave Canem Foundation and currently serves on the Board of Directors for the Poetry

Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Fellowship and won the inaugural John Lewis Writing Award in poetry Her poetry has appeared in Best New Poets 2020 (University of Virginia Press, 2020), the Washington Square Nichelle is a slam poetry champion, and her spoken word poems have been featured by Write About Now, Speak Up Poetry Series, and Button Poetry.

< Back Torch Announces the Nominations for the Best of the Net Sep 16, 2025 Eleven Torch Features were nominated for their works in creative nonfiction, fiction, poetry, and visual art in Torch Magazine. Every year, the two select Torch Features to nominate for the Best of the Net prize. They accept work in poetry, nonfiction, fiction, and art. ” by Sandra Jackson-Opoku “ At the End of Every Apocalypse is a New Apocalypse ” by Savannah Balmir Poetry

Learn more Torch x Texas Book Festival featuring Tiana Clark and Donika Kelly Sat, Nov 08 Texas Capitol Kelly Thu, Nov 06 Black Pearl Books Join us ahead of the Texas Book Festival for an incredible night of poetry Learn more Wildfire Reading Series featuring Ashley D. Johnston Learn more Torch Day at BookPeople Sat, Oct 11 BookPeople Join us for Children's Storytime and a Poetry Learn more Poetry Workshop: Chewing on the Alphabet & Stealing from the Best with Lynne Thompson Thu,

Her work has appeared in Breadcrumbs, Frontier, Tinderbox Poetry Journal, the Southampton Review and She is the winner of the 2017 James Hearst Poetry Prize and the 2020 Gatewood Prize. Her poetry is published or forthcoming in Callaloo , The Columbia Review , Poet Lore , and elsewhere. Her newest poetry collection VERSUS will be released by Texas Review Press in March 2027. Since 1976, hundreds of presses and thousands of writers of short stories, poetry and essays have been

< Back Torch Executive Director and Features Named as Brooks Living Legacy Honorees Brittany Heckard Torch is elated to announce that out of the 50 poets named, 19 have been featured in Torch Magazine and Torch has featured work by Toi Derricotte, Tayari Jones, Sharon Bridgforth, Crystal Wilkinson, Patricia