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Call for Summer Poetry & Fiction Submissions
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Philly Chapbook Review is archived in four issues per year: Winter, Spring, Summer, and Fall. Journal updates are rolling, however, updated midweek, except for the Editor’s Note, which is published infrequently, as needed. Contents shown may carry over from past issues.
Editor’s Note
Notes from Editor/Creator Aiden Hunt.
- May ’26: New Staff, New Calls, New(ish) Name
Editor Aiden Hunt provides information about changes to PCR’s name, format, and staff in this editor’s note, which also contains links to our Spring calls for submissions.
- May ’26: New Staff, New Calls, New(ish) Name
- February ’26: Section Editors & Staff Wanted
- December ’25: Pushcart Prize Nominations
- November ’25: New Staff, Issue Archive & Donations
- September ’25: Best of the Net Nominations
- July ’25: Poetry Readers Wanted
Poetry
PCR features a new chapbook poem excerpt each month.
Featured Chapbook Poem
- Chapbook Poem: Superbloom by Joyce Schmid
- Chapbook Poem: from Stray Hunter’s Bullet by Lance Le Grys
- Chapbook Poem: Slow Burn by Evan Wang
- Chapbook Poem: Found in the African Art Collection… by Rohanna Ssanyu
- Chapbook Poem: Offering by Richard Jordan
- Chapbook Poem: Aphasia by Robert Allen
Original Poetry
PCR features the work of a new poet every other Thursday.
- Three Poems by Kait Quinn
- Four Poems by Nivara Lune
- Two Poems by Patricia Wallace
- Three Poems by Andrew Pelham-Burn
- Three Poems by Ron Mohring
- Three Poems by Abbey Green
Book Excerpt
PCR features a new poem from a full-length collection each month.
Featured Full-length Book Excerpt
- Book Excerpt: The Well by Robin Becker
- Book Excerpt: Love does not exist by Maria Giesbrecht
- Book Excerpt: She wants shimmering scales by Nicole Alston Zdeb
- Book Excerpt: Targeted by Frances Klein
- Book Excerpt: Passage by Paul Hostovsky
- Book Excerpt: The Egg of Anything by Paula Bohince
Chapbook Reviews
Our five most recent poetry chapbook reviews.
- The Lines of Landscape: on Marie Scarles’ The Catastrophes
“Scarles’ choice of title points away from place, and toward the book’s deeper and more powerful offering: a changed way of seeing, one of the hallmarks of any successful poetics.” Read the full chapbook review by contributing editor, D.W. Baker. - Bodies in Transition: Sacred & Perishable by Carissa Natalia Baconguis
“There is a muscular intimacy to the ecosystem of these poems, each one of them creating as vivid a world individually as exists in the collection as a whole.” Read Gray Davidson Carroll’s full review. - Verses of Mourning: in the aftermath by Jessica Nirvana Ram
“[Ram] presents a revealing and heartbreaking collection that asks the reader to think about what they remember the most about those they have lost.” Read Alex Carrigan’s full review. - Multilingualism and Metaphor: On Desire/Halves by Jaia Hamid Bashir
“Bashir’s elegant debut collection investigates identity as the result of choices between individual appetites and cultural frames. … [It] announces an exciting addition to the global chorus of contemporary literature.” Read D.W. Baker’s full review. - What Happened? On You are Leaving the American Sector by Rebecca Foust
“Rebecca Foust’s new chapbook of poems has a strange prescience. … Foust isn’t alone in making the obvious connection between Trump’s first term and Orwell’s dystopia.” Read the full chapbook review by new contributor Rick Mullin.
Author Features
Feature articles and interviews about recent chapbooks.
- A Conversation with John deSouza
Poet John deSouza discusses his chapbook, This Rough Magic, his creative process, and the influence of John Ashbery in this interview with editor Danielle McMahon. - A Conversation with Lisa Low
Poet Lisa Low discusses her latest chapbook, Late in the Day, her relationship with her father, and the influence of Virginia Woolf in this interview with Contributor Saudamini Siegrist. - A Conversation with Chris Abani and Kwame Dawes
“We wanted something that was alive, highlighted an ever-expanding list of books by these poets, and that will hopefully survive the both of us and flourish under the curation of a fresh set of poets.” Read the full interview about the New-Generation African Poets Chapbook series. - A Conversation with Kate Colby
Poet Kate Colby discusses her latest chapbook, ThingKing, her creative writing practices, and her penchant for poetry chapbooks with PCR Editor Aiden Hunt in this interview piece.
Publishers’ Corner
Publishers’ Corner features articles about publishers, upcoming poetry chapbooks and full-length collections, and where to find them.
- New Poetry Titles (6/2/26)
Check out new poetry books for the week of 6/2 from Omnidawn, Persea, W. W. Norton, The Unnamed Press, The University Press of Kentucky, Penguin Books, Scribner & Driftwood Press. - New Poetry Titles (5/26/26)
Check out new poetry books for the week of 5/26 from University of Alabama Press, Piżama Press, University Press of Colorado & Farrar, Straus and Giroux. - New Poetry Titles (5/19/26)
Check out new poetry books for the week of 5/19 from Cardboard House Press, Broadstone Books, Parthian Books, Chax Press, Talonbooks, Faber & Faber, Seven Stories Press, Copper Canyon Press, Coach House Books, Nightboat Books, The Song Cave & Wayne State University Press. - Poetry Chapbooks (April 2026)Check out our round-up of poetry chapbooks published in April 2026 by Bottlecap Press, Kelsay Books, Ethel Press, Button Poetry, Rockwood Press & Northwestern University Press.
Aiden’s Corner
Featuring posts from editor and publisher, P. Aiden Hunt, Meet Our Contributor posts, and other informal updates.
- Meet Our Contributor: Andrew Pelham-Burn
Meet our contributor, Andrew Pelham-Burn, check out his books and recent work, and read about her writing life in a Contributor Q&A. - Call for Summer Poetry & Fiction Submissions
PCR is calling for submissions of original poetry and fiction from May 1 and June 15 for our Summer 2026 issue and beyond. Read this post for details! - Meet Our Contributor: Sophia Naz
Meet our contributor, Sophia Naz, check out her books and recent work, and read about her writing life in a Contributor Q&A. - Meet Our Contributor: Saudamini Siegrist
Meet our contributor, Saudamini Siegrist, check out her recent work and read about her writing life in a Contributor Q&A.
