National Poetry Month Summit
level-up this April
the best way to support your poetry this year & get ahead!
🎉 This year’s online national poery month summit🎉
DOORS ARE CLOSED FOR 2024~ SEE YOU IN 2025!
What you get
delivered to your email once a week + online events.
You don’t even have to leave your living room.
The INFAMOUS Mega Publications List.
THE ONLY ACCURATE PUBLICATIONS LIST ORGANIZED BY DUE DATE. PERIOD.
69 Pages of publication companies to submit your poetry for publication, organized by due date + shows if there’s a submission fee + if it pays per publication.
Other lists on the internet are filled with publication companies that are no longer publishing (how frustrating!) or they don’t accept poetry, even though they’re on the list. They’re just playing with your emotions at this point.
We go through all those sites for you, saving HOURS of your time. We put the work in so you don’t have to.
UNIQUE Poetry Prompts every day in April.
EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEWS + Q&A’s with industry leaders every week.
HOTTEST Online Poetry Events released weekly so you don’t get overwhelmed.
SUMMIT OVERVIEW
WEEK 1: THE HOOK UP
Mega Publications List to submit your work (69 pages!)
Craftwork : Poetic devices to expand your writing
Interview Q&A: “Publishing insider tips with Longleaf Press Shannon Ward”
Prompts
Online events happening that week
WEEK 2: momentum
Momentum: How to pitch your work + yourself for gigs & opportunities
Interview Q&A: “How to get over the fear of putting yourself out there with Poet Laureate Jay Ward”
Prompts
Online events happening that week
WEEK 3: LAUNCH
Launch: How to create a marketing plan for your book / album or event
Interview Q&A: “Curating high profile shows with Dionne D. Hunter”
Prompts
Online events happening that week
WEEK 4: BUSINESS
Business: How to price your work & services in poetry
Interview Q&A: “How to apply for grants to support your work with Coach Shane Manier & Poet Laureate Jay Ward”
Prompts
Online events happening that week
“~~~~~ Join hundreds of poets just like you who are leveling up their craft this year ~~~~~”
🔥IGNITE YOUR POETRY THIS APRIL🔥
Rejuvenate + expand your writing skill
GROW YOUR AUDIENCE + YOUR REVENUE
Network with POETS + leaders in the industry
meet your guides
Shane Manier + Jay Ward are blessed to have led the National Poetry Month Summit for 7 years now!
JAY WARD
Junious “Jay” Ward is a poet living in Charlotte, NC, and the author of Sing Me a Lesser Wound (Bull City Press). Jay is a National Poetry Slam champion, an Individual World Poetry Slam champion, and Charlotte’s inaugural Poet Laureate. He has attended and/or received support from Breadloaf Writers Conference, Callaloo, The Frost Place, Tin House Winter Workshop, and The Watering Hole, and currently serves as a Program Director for BreatheInk and Vice-Chair for The Watering Hole. His poems can be found in Four Way Review, DIAGRAM, Columbia Journal, The Amistad, Diode Poetry Journal, and elsewhere.
SHANE MANIER
Shane Manier is a Creative Coach, Visual Artist, Tedx Keynote Speaker, Trauma Informed Care Instructor, Poetry Mentor and National Spoken Word Poet based in the Charlotte Metro Region of NC. She is the founder of Guerilla Poets, a nonprofit art collective with branches in the US and UK and the founder of The National Poetry Month Summit, an online summit that connects and supports poets all across the US. She is the Spoken Word and Arts Teaching Instructor for The Harvey B. Gantt Center, Arts Empowerment Project, Henderson High School, Playing for Others, as well as Center for Faith in the Arts permanent Artist in Residence. In 2011 she was the youngest poet to ever be inducted in the Poetry Council of North Carolina, and was honored as a finalist for Poet Laureate of Charlotte NC in 2022. She has been recognized as a National Poet performing with Respect Da Mic Slam Team from 2017-2020. She is the author of three books, “Fallen Heroes of the Awful Waffle” published through Main Street Rag in 2017, “Divine Disturbances” published in 2020, and “Road Hunger” 2021. In 2015 she released her first poetry album, “Bootstraps,” her second album, “Carrier Pigeons” in 2019, and third album “Shanesaw: The Remainder” in 2022.
see you there poet!
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