Stanford Alumnae Poetry Circle

02/18/2026

Dear Friends,
The Practicing Stanford Feminist, Anthology of Writings by the Stanford Alumni Women’s Impact Network was published on January 6, 2026. Please celebrate this valuable collection by sixteen talented writers who support women’s wellbeing worldwide. It was a joy to be the editor of this amazing anthology.

Our virtual book launch party was held on Wednesday, February 11, 2026. The virtual book is available as of February 14, 2026.

I am sincerely honored by the positive reception and support given to our new anthology, The Practicing Stanford Feminist.
Cheers,
Barb

02/18/2026

Meet the authors of The Practicing Stanford Feminist anthology. It was a joy to write, edit, and brainstorm women’s current social justice issues with these brilliant authors.
Our virtual book launch was held on Wednesday, February 11th, and it was a wonderful gathering of authors who read excerpts from their articles and shared stories, life experiences, and thoughts about women's wellbeing throughout the globe.

This event was an inspiring reception for The Practicing Stanford Feminist. I am honored to be the editor of this groundbreaking anthology of women's writings, with a Stanford feminist perspective, on the wellbeing of both girls and women in society.

Looking forward to sharing verses in volume two, an anthology of women's poetry.

02/18/2026

Our book launch for The Practicing Stanford Feminist was held on Wednesday, February 11th, and it was a wonderful gathering of authors who read excerpts from their articles and shared stories, life experiences, and thoughts about women's wellbeing throughout the globe.

This event was an inspiring reception for The Practicing Stanford Feminist. I am honored to be part of this groundbreaking anthology of women's writings, with a Stanford feminist perspective, on the wellbeing of both girls and women in society.

Looking forward to our next project, an anthology of women's poetry. Please join us in 2026 as we explore feminism through a poetic lens, and discover the poet within yourself.

04/16/2025

SONNET, a journal of poetry, is the official Journal of the Stanford Poetry Alliance

SONNET, Volume One, The Early Italian Sonnet, is back in print and arriving in August 2025. To all those amazing poets and writers who contributed to this first volume, we extend our heartfelt thanks and congratulations. We thank particularly:
Ruth Asch, Raymond Clarke, Roman James Hoffman, Clinton Inman, Charlotte Kennedy, Joan Klaus, Kelly McGowan, Cate Millican, Catherine Shilka, Carole Sanderson Streeter, and Jennifer Visick.

Please contact me, Dr. Barbara L. Prescott, at [email protected] or through FB messages, with any questions regarding subscriptions, submissions, comments, or to make sure we have your current mailing address, particularly if you are a contributor to this edition of SONNET.

We extend our heartfelt appreciation to everyone who helped us toward the realization of this first volume of SONNET, which is now in its second printing, 2025.

10/04/2024

10/04/2024

Poets, only 1 month left to send us your work for the 2025 Treehouse Climate Action Poem Prize, given in partnership with Treehouse Investments, to honor poems that address the vulnerable state of our environment. Submissions close on November 1, 2024. No entry fee. Apply here: https://poets.org/academy-american-poets/prizes/treehouse-climate-action-poem-prize

The prize honors 3 poets: 1st place receives $1000; 2nd place, $750; and 3rd place, $500. All winning poems will be published in the popular Poem-a-Day series, which is distributed to 500,000 readers. Poems may also be featured in the award-winning education series Teach This Poem, which serves 35,000 educators each week.

Poems may be submitted in Spanish, accompanied by an English translation. Performance or Spoken Word poets may submit an audio recording of their submission.

04/14/2024

APRIL 2024
Celebrate National Poetry Month!

04/14/2024

✨Book Now for the International Poetry Symposium 9-10th May✨

🌍We're so excited to announce that tickets are now on sale for the PBS & at Newcastle Poetry Festival!

📚Join us for inspiring poetry from Newcastle to Switzerland, US, Canada, Ukraine, Iran, Bhutan & beyond at Northern Stage Theatre. Find your PLACE in poetry 9th-10th May - https://mailchi.mp/poetrybooksociety/internationalpoetrysymposium

04/14/2024

Sometimes, we just don’t say thank you often enough. Let’s remedy that. A soul felt THANK YOU to all our loyal members and a resounding WELCOME to our newest poets! Let’s welcome our new members: Urmî Čkz, James Charlie and The Mustard Club!

Thanks for joining the community.

03/08/2024

The Free Verse Prize is a poetry competition in support of Free Verse: the Poetry Book and Magazine Fair. Free Verse Poetry Book and Magazine Fair celebrates the vitality of poetry in the UK – it's a day of conversation and shopping, an unrivalled opportunity to browse the very best in contemporar...

02/26/2024

Speaking of Joy Davidman Lewis, poet, political activist, and wife of C.S. Lewis, I highly recommend a book by Don W. King about her poetic life journey, entitled A Naked Tree: Love Sonnets to C. S. Lewis and Other Poems. Here is my review, published in Sehnsucht, The C.S. Lewis Journal. Joy was a brilliant and complex woman who wrote splendid sonnets. Don King does justice to her literary life journey, which may be considered, itself, a sonnet. Hope this review prompts you to read King’s book. 🍀

Review of Joy Davidman, A Naked Tree: Love Sonnets to C. S. Lewis and Other Poems, ed. by Don W. King (Grand Rapids, Michigan: Wm. B. Eerdmans, 2015). xvi + 320 pages. $30.00. ISBN 9780802872883.