Open Journal Poetry
Many thanks to all the poets who continue to submit to Superlative.
Here are the fantastic poems that we have selected for publication in our open journal.
If you would like us to consider your poetry, please submit here.
Enjoy!
Eleanor Kirkham (she/her) is an aspiring novelist, part-time prose poet and MFA in Creative Writing (with Distinction) graduate from Manchester Metropolitan University. She is currently based in Manchester, pursuing representation by a literary agent for her debut novel, Venus Is Melting.
Jade Aldana is an event coordinator and writer from the Olympic Peninsula. Her work explores family, survival, faith, and identity.
Christine Harapiak is a poet, playwright and retired judge obsessed with digging up the mythic echoes from the landscapes of the Canadian prairies. She has or will be published in various journals including Mantis, Miracle Monocle and The Letter Review. Harapiak is cofounder of Wormhole Microtheatre Company, a troupe dedicated to developing local plays and staging them in unexpected places.
Halyna Chapman is a young writer and self taught poet from Barrington, Rhode Island. She sometimes writes to convince herself of something and proves the opposite. This poem is one of those times.
K.A. Vallere is a Polish writer working in English across poetry, hybrid forms, literary criticism, and the essay. She is completing the Undergraduate Diploma in Creative Writing at the University of Oxford. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Los Angeles Review, Tupelo Quarterly, Canyon Voices, and elsewhere. In 2026, she completed an internship with Tupelo Press and attended the Tupelo Manuscript Conference as a scholar.
Grace Lynn is an emerging painter who lives with a chronic illness. Her work explores the intersections between faith, the natural world, art and the body. In her spare time, Grace enjoys listening to Bob Dylan, reading suspense novels and investigating absurd angles of art history.
Ridley attends Radnor High School in Wayne, Pennsylvania, USA, where she plays on the tennis team and is a member of the Asian Culture Club. Her writing has appeared in The Radish, and her short story “The Rusty Hubcap” has been accepted for publication in the June 2026 issue of Blue Marble Review. She is the recipient of an American Voices Award, a Scholastic Gold Medal Writing Award, and a Scholastic Gold Key Writing Award.
Along with his debut novel, Deep River Blues, and four books of poetry, including his latest, ‘Pulling at a Thread’, Tony Morris's work has also been widely published in anthologies and journals. His poems have been awarded the Louisiana Literature Prize, and the Tennessee Writers Alliance Poetry Award along with multiple nominations for the Pushcart Prize.
Erik is a student of social anthropology at the London School of Economics. His poems explore intimacy, loss, and the quiet absurdity of being alive.