Established 2011
Managing Editor:
Anna M. Evans
P.O. Box 115
Hainesport, NJ 08036


1/14/21: Open Reading Period Winners announced

Make for Higher Ground by Diane Moomey
Tawny Grammar by David Landrum
Thanks to all who entered!

7/4/2020: Open Reading Period Ends.

6/1/2020: Open Reading Period Begins.

8/30/2019: Open Reading Period Winners announced

Country Well-Known as an Old Nightmare's Stable by Tiel Aisha Ansari
Temporary Kin by Kathleen McClung
Thanks to all who entered!

7/5/2019: Open Reading Period Ends.

6/3/2019: Open Reading Period Begins.

8/5/2016: Open Reading Period Winner announced

What Once You Loved by Allison Joseph
Semi-finalists: Erin Murphy and Robert Donohue.
Thanks to all who entered!

4/30/2016: Open Reading Period Ends.

4/1/2016: Open Reading Period Begins.

10/30/2015: Best of the Raintown Review is now available.

7/8/2014: Solicited Reading Period chosen collections announced

Why We Go By Twos by Linda Stern
Back Road by Jim Burrows

06/16/2014: Heimat by Quincy R. Lehr is now available

04/16/2014: Nothing In-Between by Marybeth Rua-Larsen is now available

12/16/2013:Self-Portrait as Bettie Page by Heidi Czerwiec is now available

11/1/2013: Forgetting Home: Poems About Alzheimer's is now available

6/28/2013: Open Reading Period Chapbook Winners announced

Nothing In-Between by Marybeth Rua-Larsen
Self-Portrait as Bettie Page by Heidi Czerwiec
Semi-finalists: Jean Free, T.R. Poulson, Jim Burrows and Jenna Le.
Thanks to all who entered!

4/1/2013: Second Chapbook Open Reading Period Begins

1/8/2013: Shadows & Gifts by Quincy R. Lehr, and Selected Poems of Marceline Desbordes-Valmore are now available for pre-order

6/19/2012: High-Voltage Lines by Tiel Aisha Ansari is now available for pre-order

5/5/2012: Open Reading Period Chapbook Winners announced

High-Voltage Lines by Tiel Aisha Ansari
Shadows & Gifts by Quincy R. Lehr
Semi-finalists: Lois Marie Harrod, Robert Donohue, Wendy Kaplan-Emmons and Frank Osen.
Thanks to all who entered!

5/1/2012: Official publication date of Saint-Pol-Roux & Other Poems from the French

4/1/2012: First Chapbook Open Reading Period Begins