Oatleaf Poetry

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We are Oatleaf, an online poetry publication!

Submissions are open year-round!

We have been on hiatus for a few months but we are excited to announce that Oatleaf is ready to get back up and running again.

Oatleaf is now on Substack!

It will be easier to subscribe to the journal and get poems sent directly to your inbox.

Submissions are open!

Hello poets!

This year we are going to do things differently than we did in 2025.

Last year we were publishing poems weekly in a blog format. Each month was considered an issue or micro issue. We then shut down the blog site and shifted issues to a downloadable digital format.

In 2026, our publishing schedule will work differently. Submissions are still open on a rolling basis!

Issues will be published during March, June, & September.

An end of year volume (compiling the three issues) will be released in October.

November and December will still function as our awards season to nominate six poets for the Pushcart Prize and announce one poet as the winner of the Oatleaf Poetry Award!

As a two person team, we are looking forward to these changes. We are also looking forward to reading your wonderful poetry submissions!

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Congratulations to Claudia Wysocky, author of “The Melting Clock”, published in September of 2025.

You can read Claudia Wysocky’s winning poem in our 2025 Volume!

Hello, poets and lovers of poetry!

Help us get ready for our magazine's January 2026 issue and send us your poems today! Our submission window is always open and we are excited for the new year and new poetry. All are welcome!

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Hello! We are excited to announce our Pushcart Prize nominees for the year of 2025! It was difficult to narrow down the best poems we’ve published this year to just six, but we also wanted to say that we appreciate all of the poets that were able to contribute to the magazine this past year. Below are our nominees!

Fur Malorum by Sia Moon

Inversion by James Lilliefors

Post Mortem by Peter J. King

The @ by Elana Lavine

The Melting Clock by Claudia Wysocky

White Sails on the Shores of Ithaca by Benjamin Parker

Congratulations to our nominees!

We’d like to thank all the wonderful poets who contributed to Oatleaf in our very first year. We are grateful to be able to provide a home for your poetry.

We are excited to read through new submissions for future issues!

The magazine is now currently in our break period through November and December but works can still be submitted for 2026! Please send us your poetry!

We will soon announce our Pushcart Prize nominees. It’s difficult to choose only six! Please stay tuned for our nominees announcement!

Hello, poets!

We have a few announcements here at Oatleaf.

Moving forward, publication will occur via downloadable PDF that will be published on a monthly basis starting at the end of next January. We are no longer going to use the weekly blog format.

All work published during our 2025 season has been compiled into a full volume that is available for download! We are excited to share the full volume with you all! Please visit oatleafpoetry.com and check out the “issues” button.

Next month we are going to announce our nominees for the Pushcart Prize!

In December, we are going to announce the winner of our in-house poetry award!

Please stay tuned.

We are:

~An online poetry magazine

~A not-for-profit publication

~Anti-AI

~Queer-owned

~Nominating for the Pushcart Prize

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Submissions are always open and free!

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