About Us 

Radar Poetry is an electronic journal of poetry and artwork. We publish poems from established and emerging writers and welcome international submissions. We are interested in the interplay between poetry and visual media. Each issue features pairings of poetry and artwork, selected by the editors.

Radar Poetry currently publishes three issues each year: the Winter Issue, the Summer Issue, and the Coniston Prize Issue. We welcome unsolicited general submissions of poems during our open reading periods: November 1 - January 1 and March 1 - May 1. To submit your work, please read our guidelines. We nominate our authors for major prizes including the Pushcart series, Best New Poets, and the Best of the Net anthology.

During the summer months, we read and administer the Coniston Prize and are open to prize submissions only. Please see the contest page for details and guidelines.

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Rachel Marie Patterson (Editor) lives in Ewing, NJ. She holds an MFA from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. The recipient of an Academy American Poets Prize, her work has been nominated for Best of the Net and Best New Poets. Her poem “Connemara” received a Special Mention for the Pushcart Prize in 2019. Her work appears in Smartish Pace, Parcel, Cimarron Review, Harpur Palate, Nashville Review, The Journal, Thrush, Redivider, and Fugue, among other journals. Most recently, she was a finalist for the 2020 Rita Dove Award from the Center for Women Writers. Her full-length collection, Tall Grass With Violence, was published by FutureCycle Press in 2022.

Dara-Lyn Shrager (Editor) lives in Princeton, NJ. She holds a BA from Smith College, where she was the recipient of the Rosemary Thomas Prize for Poetry, and an MFA from Bennington College. Her full-length poetry collection, Whiskey, X-Ray, Yankee, was a finalist for the Barrow Street Prize and published by Barrow Street Press in 2018. Her poems have appeared in Barn Owl Review, Salamander, Southern Humanities Review, Yemassee, Passages North, The Greensboro Review, Whiskey Island, Harpur Palate, and other journals. Her articles have appeared in newspapers and magazines including The New York Times, The Philadelphia Inquirer, and Philadelphia Magazine.