A poet's entry.

Submit Poetry

For the 2023 poster series, we encourage poets to start early, practice haiku and other short form poetry as regular exercise and submit work as soon as you feel pleased with it. As of 2021, we’re producing posters on the theme of “Seven Syracuse Spirits,” and prompting writers with an annual list of spirits. We mail out the formal call for poetry, including the list of spirits, in early August. The deadline is in September. Sign up for the mailing list via our Contact Us form. Meanwhile, feel free to view prior spirits, and send us poems related to those spirits. You can download the 2021 entry form here.

A note for elementary and secondary school teachers: several posters have featured student poems, and we enjoy the vision and spirit of student work. But if you have your class participate, please help with the selection work. For each class, send us the best five haiku. Thank you.

Submit Art

We invite emerging and professional artists to participate in our annual call for art. Formal invitations go out in August. To join our artists' mailing list, send us your contact information via the "Contact Us" form. For more information, download our list of frequently asked questions for artists

Beyond posters, your work stands a chance of being shared with the public in other ways--via cards, booklets, poem-of-the day features, and large-format flat screens.

A note for elementary and secondary school teachers: We enjoy the vision and spirit of student work. But if you have your class participate, please help with the selection process. For each class, send us the best five haiku.

Thank you.