The Garden Party Collective presents: Visual / Experimental Poetry Contest
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For our January 2026 contest, collective member Mya Matteo Alexice selected "Visual / Experimental Poetry":
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"While the left-aligned, form-adherent, steady poem is one we of course love and cherish, poetry is, definitionally as a genre, expansive. So, give us your weird creatures bursting out of the traditional. Give us your poems with images, with sounds, with drawings, with music notation, with calligraphy, with collage, with source material, with strangeness, with shapes we’ve never seen before, with avant-garde magic.
Think Douglas Kearney. Think Olio. Think Steve McCaffery. Think Whereas. Think Citizen. Think of something unlike anything else we’ve seen before."
Poetry Contest Details
OUR 5TH POETRY CONTEST HAS CLOSED!
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SUBMISSION PERIOD: We accepted subs January 11th - 16th, 2026
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Any entry received after the selected dates will not be considered for publication. We read every manuscript, and will select our winners within two months of submissions!​
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Thank you for your trust in us!!!