Our Poetry Collections
Orenaug Mountain Publishing produces themed anthologies throughout the year. Our publications routinely receive submissions from around the world and are available through the Lulu Bookstore.
While we cannot pay for your contributions at this time, we can offer you a publishing credit and provide you with a watermarked PDF copy of the book. In the future, we hope to be able to provide you with a complimentary copy and/or a small stipend. Until then, we hope you'll join us as we continue to build our journal and poetry community.
Our Latest Collection
Contributors from around the world explores the concept of freedom from a variety of perspectives. The poems carry the urgency of our time as the poets seek to engage an audience who shares their concern about the place of individual freedom in a world where those ideals are under threat.
Calls for Submissions
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: Lost Love, Spring/Summer 2025
Love stays in our hearts long after our loved ones have moved on or passed. How do we respond? Lost love is especially hard when we miss the opportunity to express our love before a loved one is gone from our lives. Often we are left with whatever words we can find to put a shape on the experience. Words can heal, and words can build bridges between each of us and across worlds when we open our hearts. Other times, words can just plain hold the fort while we pull ourselves together. The purpose of this anthology is to create a place where those of us who have lost love can share our hearts and heal, build bridges, and help others to do the same. By bearing witness, we build community.
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CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: Baseball Poetry
"Baseball is the most literary of sports, bursting with metaphor, image, and rhythm, and poets have long recognized the symbolic parallels between a baseball game and the events of daily life from which their poems sprout. A baseball game tells a story inside the confines of its form, just as a poem does. Its balls and strikes, hits and outs, runs and innings are very like the echoes and rhymes, stresses and stops, lines and stanzas of a poem." (SOURCE: A Poetic Take on Baseball by Bob Holman & Margery Snyder, on ThoughtCo.)
Where does baseball (or softball or cricket) fit in your life? What is the attraction of the game for you? What does it mean to you? How has it impacted you and your family? What is your greatest memory? Why does the sport matter?