Tar River Poetry is Online

Tar River Poetry has moved online! Spring 2025, our final print issue, is online, and we will be entirely online from the Fall 2025 issue (10/15) on. The journal is now free for all to read (we are no longer taking print subscriptions, but donations are always welcome). Current subscribers will be able to submit to the journal for free, with an expedited response time, for the duration of their subscription; after that, the normal submission fees will apply. Our reading periods will continue to be September and January.

Tar River Poetry‘s First Competition

Thank you again to all who submitted poems to our first competition, generously sponsored by the North Carolina Museum of Art: “The Tar River Poetry Ekphrasis Competition.” We were overwhelmed with the response and the wonderful quality of the work. We are proud to announce the winners and honorable mentions:

First place, Dean Tuck, “After St. Matthew and the Angel”
Second place, Adam Tavel, “After Rain I”
Third place, Wynne Morrison, “In the Last Room of the MoMA Kollwitz Show”

Honorable Mentions
Jesse Curran, “Ronde I”
Gina Ferrara, “January 2025 (One Hundred Year Snowfall)”
Jon Savage, “Winter 1946”

Congratulations!

The Tar River Poetry Ekphrasis Competition Reading

Authors from “The Tar River Poetry Ekphrasis Competition” were invited to read their work at the Tar River Poetry Ekphrasis event at the NCMA End Paper Festival on Sunday, September 21st at 11am. The event was free and open to the public.

We thank everyone who was able to make the event. We were glad to see you there! Please also look for these poems in the Spring 2026 issue of Tar River Poetry.