Why "Orchard Street?"
We all have special places in our lives, places from which the people, sounds, sights remain despite all the days and distance we may have traveled from them. One such place is a small mountain town in Pennsylvania where a family of thirteen once lived in a seven-room house built by a coal miner and his brothers, built before electricity and indoor plumbing, at a time when people’s lives were all too often measured only by the tiny piece their breath and sweat could add to the coffers of some corporate monolith. Six brothers, five sisters, father John and mother Mary living in the Pennsylvania sun beneath the shadow of a blue-green mountain in their small white house four doors down on Orchard Street.
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Quiet Diamonds
Every year, The Orchard Street Press conducts a national Poetry Contest. Each year it is our privilege to review hundreds of poems from across the country, submissions from well-established and emerging poets alike.
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Past Poetry Contests
Once again, as in previous years, the Contest judges selected poets from whom chapbook manuscripts were invited. It is from responses to these invitations that chapbooks were chosen for publication during the 2023 year.
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Submissions
Many of the titles published by Orchard Street are poetry chapbooks by poets who have submitted entries to our annual Poetry Contest. The judges identify entrants from whom they would like to see more work (typically, chapbook length manuscripts).
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Marginalia
Quiet Diamonds 2024
Quiet Diamonds 2023
The Secret Care The World Takes
Stronger When We Touch
Day for Night
Approximate Sonnets
How We All Fly
Guidelines for Nirvana
Quiet Diamonds 2022
Family Stories
An Angle of Grace
Dream Rider
A Song of Ascents
Tesserae
Better Late Than Never
A Poem's Medium
Leftover Prayers
The Gambler’s Daughter
Modern Tapestries, Medieval Looms
Heaven is in Truckee
Quiet Diamonds 2021
Stumbling Into Grace
A Flash of Yellow Wing
Bleached Bones & Sycamore
Getting it Down on Paper
(riding) shotgun in imaginary cars
Universal Monsters
Zero, A Door
To See in the Night
Our Fatherlessness
Memory of Spring
Sunlight in the Stream
Words and Other Tyrants
RASP
Grit & Grace
The Body is a Dancing Star
The Alex Chronicles
Dialogues With Light
Step Close In
Gwen and the Big Nothing
Twenty Small Worlds
Joy in the Tomb of Hunting and Fishing
Sea Changes
Quiet Diamonds 2020
Quiet Diamonds 2019
In The Diamond Light of an Always Morning
Almost Happy
Midnight Exhibition at the Wheatgrass Saloon
Duets: Love Poems & Prayers
Passages
Art Preserves What Can't Be Saved
Scream Queen
Social Work and Other Myths
The Walls Around the Ring
Blaze
Wakeful Fathers and Dreaming Sons
Riverstory : Treestory
Vital Signs
The Hungry Man
Fountain Nook
Quiet Diamonds 2018
Vanishing Point
Blind Season
Anubis Stands Close By
Homecoming
The Timekeeper’s Garden
if you follow a crooked river…
Heat Lightning
The Sun’s Banquet Table
a matter of voice
all the stars that once were
Going Back to Africa
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The 2026 Orchard Street Press Poetry Contest
I am very happy to announce the ninth annual Orchard Street Press Poetry Contest, the return of an event that, in its first eight seasons, has produced some wonderful poetry and eight editions of...
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