About Us 

Radar Poetry is an electronic journal of poetry and artwork. We publish poems from established and emerging writers and welcome international submissions. We are interested in the interplay between poetry and visual media. Each issue features pairings of poetry and artwork, selected by the editors.

Radar Poetry currently publishes three issues each year: the Winter Issue, the Summer Issue, and the Coniston Prize Issue. We welcome unsolicited general submissions of poems during our open reading periods: November 1 - January 1 and March 1 - May 1. To submit your work, please read our guidelines. We nominate our authors for major prizes including the Pushcart series, Best New Poets, and the Best of the Net anthology.

During the summer months, we read and administer the Coniston Prize and are open to prize submissions only. Please see the contest page for details and guidelines.

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Rachel Marie Patterson (Editor) holds an M.F.A. in Creative Writing from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Tall Grass With Violence, Rachel’s debut full-length collection, was released in 2022 by FutureCycle Press. Her chapbook, If I Am Burning, was published by MSR in 2011. Rachel’s poems appear or will soon appear in many journals, including Harpur Palate, Cimarron Review, Valparaiso Poetry Review, Smartish Pace, Parcel, The Journal, Thrush, Nashville Review, Redivider, and Fugue. She won an Academy of American Poets Prize in 2012, and in 2019, her poem “Connemara” was selected as a Special Mention for the Pushcart Prize. Her poetry has also been nominated for Best of the Net and Best New Poets.

Dara-Lyn Shrager (Editor) lives in Princeton, NJ. She holds a BA from Smith College and an MFA from Bennington College. Her full-length poetry collection, Whiskey, X-Ray, Yankee, was a finalist for the Barrow Street Prize and published by Barrow Street Press in 2018. Her poems have appeared in The Iowa Review, The Los Angeles Review, Salamander, Southern Humanities Review, Yemassee, The Greensboro Review, Harpur Palate, and other journals. Her work is also featured in the anthology Braving the Body (Harbor Editions, 2024) and has been nominated for Best of the Net and the Pushcart Prize. Her articles have appeared in newspapers and magazines including The New York Times, The Philadelphia Inquirer, and Philadelphia Magazine.