Helping Poets Get Paid

Part of our mission as an organization is to help pay poets and publishing houses. As of May 2024, we are paying $25/poem when adding a poem to our app. In addition, any poet who is featured during the year will be eligible for that year's readers' choice poetry prize.
(These numbers may change in the future, but as of May 2024 they are the standard contract we've offered to all partners.)

Meet Our Featured Partners

Here are some of the great independent publishers we've worked with to bring contemporary poetry to our readers:
  • Bloodaxe Books (British publishing house founded in 1978)
  • ​New Directions (Independent publishing company founded 1936 in Cambridge, MA)
  • Coffee House Press (Independent book publisher and arts nonprofit based in Minneapolis, MN)
  • Red Hen Press (An American non-profit press located in Pasadena, California)
  • Peepal Tree Press (Publisher based in Leeds, England which publishes Caribbean, Black British, and South Asian literature)

Contemporary Poets on Poesie

Here are some of the contemporary poets whose work you'll find featured on our app:
  • Will Alexander
  • Catherine Barnett
  • Rick Barot
  • James Berry
  • Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge
  • Kamau Brathwaite
  • Zoe Brigley
  • Gwendolyn Brooks
  • Niall Campbell
  • Jane Clarke
  • Douglas Crase
  • Imtiaz Dharker
  • Gregory Djanikian
  • Helen Dunmore
  • Stephen Dunn
  • Forrest Gander
  • Philip Gross
  • Jane Hirshfield
  • Chloe Honum
  • Susan Howe
  • Rebecca Gayle Howell
  • Ilya Kaminsky
  • Jackie Kay
  • Roisin Kelly
  • Donika Kelly
  • Denise Levertov
  • Nathaniel Mackey
  • Thomas Merton
  • Leanne O'Sullivan
  • George Oppen
  • Frank Ormsby
  • Linda Pastan
  • Pascale Petit
  • Katrina Porteous
  • Lawrence Raab
  • Kenneth Rexroth
  • James Richardson
  • Matthew Rohrer
  • Jacob Sam-La Rose
  • Safiya Sinclair
  • Tracy K. Smith
  • Mark Tredinnick
  • Natasha Tretheway
  • William Carlos Williams