The Poetry Society of Michigan is seeking poems for a five-year anthology to be published in 2026.

Current and former PSM members are known to be passionate about local environments both thriving and abandoned: lakes great and small; woods, streams, Karner Blue butterflies and more. We have rich histories tied to Michigan that inform our daily lives. To that end, we are seeking poems that convey the Power of Place.

If you have been a dues-paying PSM member in at least one of the past five years (2021-2025) we invite you to submit. Send your submission to PSM’s Anthology Managing Editor Melanie Dunbar at editor.psm@gmail.com.

Submissions open: January 1, 2026

Deadline for submissions: March 15, 2026

Guidelines: In the body of an email with the subject PSM ANTHOLOGY SUBMISSION include:

-Author name and contact information (address, phone and email)

-three to five poems (within the body of the email–no attachments please).

-Acknowledgement for any submitted poems that were previously published.

(We prefer new work but previously published work will be considered as long as the copyright is owned by the poet and the work is accompanied by information of when and where it was previously published.)

Note: While broad representation will be the editors’ primary intent, page limits, and applicability to the theme dictate that acceptance will be selective. Membership alone does not guarantee inclusion.

The anthology will be launched at our Fall Conference 2026 in Lansing and will be distributed to libraries state-wide. Readings will be held in multiple cities throughout 2027 to celebrate over 90 years of the Poetry Society of Michigan.

Contributors accepted will receive one copy of the anthology. Additional copies will be available for purchase at Amazon.com.