Our annual Poetry Contest is extended until April 24th! (because we always get inspired the day AFTER the deadline)
We have a new issue and website! cgreview.org/magazine
Our Annual Poetry Contest is extended until April 17th!
(because we always get our best ideas the day after the deadline)
Congrats to our 2020 Poetry Contest winners!
1st prize: Cassandra Rockwood-Rice-"Table of Contents"
2nd prize: Darius Simpson-"When I Say I Have Known Black Boys Like You"
3rd prize: Adrienne Christian-"Wedding Dress"
We are very happy to announce our poetry contest judge for 2020: Lori Desrosiers, editor of Naugatuck River Review and Wordpeace.co and author of The Philosopher's Daughter & other books...Read about her and our contest ($500 1st prize) at cgreview.org!
We've got contest results from our judge, Doug Anderson! Putting names to poems now, announcing soon!
Common Ground Review's Annual Poetry Contest is on! Judged by Doug Anderson, deadline 3/31....Send us 1-3 poems! cgreview.org
Common Ground Review followers, just thought you might want to see this! (While I'm at it, I highly recommend @TahomaReview and its wonderful editors)
contributor Janet Bowdan, editor of @CommonGroundRev, send a copy of TLR with her poem in it to @Lin_Manuel. this happened. that awkward noise is me, plotzing. Janet, THANK YOU for sharing your work & the work of TLR's writers w him. -ysl
Poetry Contest winners!
1, Jari Chevalier, "In the Bird Sanctuary"
2, John Sibley Williams, "Cosmology"
3, Elton Glaser, "Under Capricorn"
Also Lisa Desrochers-Short, Kevin Griffin, Janet MacFadyen,
William Greenfield, Jonathan Greenhause, C. Wade Bentley,
Beth Paulson
Our judge, Amy Dryansky @adryansky, has just selected 3 winning poems and 7 honorable mentions! But we don't know yet which ones won... stay tuned!
Surprised and delighted that Making Progress is the book of the day! xitter.cf/FLPress/status/9815573…
FINISHING LINE PRESS BOOK OF THE DAY:
Making Progress (NWVS #142) by Janet Bowdan $14.99,… instagram.com/p/BhJ2brhHfbP/
Common Ground Review's Poetry Contest is open! $500 First Prize, $200 Second Prize, $100 First Prize and Publication. We're happy to announce that our 2018 Judge is Amy Dryansky! @adryansky
We're about to open our 2018 Poetry Contest today! & we're thrilled to announce that Amy Dryansky will judge the poems!
We're re-opening to poetry submissions tomorrow! Do you have any wave-themed poems? ocean waves, radio, sine, a wave hello?
Congrats to 2017 Annual Poetry Contest Winners!! Thank you, Patrick Donnelly for judging. Poems will be published in CGR S/S issue 19.1.




