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A poet's year is a submissions calendar

A poet submits more, to more places, for less money than any other writer on this site. The job splits in two: getting the line right, and getting it read. This page assembles both halves.

Not here: royalty calculators, invoices and rate cards. Nobody is paying you by the word. If that is your year instead, try the freelancers page.

1. Get the line right

Scansion, sound and the search for the word that scans and means it.

Syllable Counter

Per-word counts and line totals, with a haiku check.

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Meter Checker

Stress pattern, meter verdict and rhyme scheme, per line.

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Rhyme Finder

Perfect and slant rhymes, grouped by syllable count.

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Rhyme Families

Browse families, then search any word live.

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Rhyme Scheme Analyzer

A letter per line, every match explained.

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Poem Form Identifier

Paste a poem, see which fixed form it fits.

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2. Read, and steal properly

Poetry Anthology

Public domain poems, filterable by theme, form and poet.

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Poems Like Invictus

Invictus in full, then ten poems in the same spirit.

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Poetic Devices Hub

Every device with worked examples, plus a quiz.

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Types of Poems

Twenty forms, each with its rules and a worked example.

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The Poems, Era by Era

Every anthology poem on its own page.

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Blackout Poetry Maker

Redact any text into a poem, then download it.

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3. The banks to pull from

Each is a full list with a live generator, on its own page. Nothing is copied here.

Words for Poets

A curated bank with a live generator.

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Emotion Wheel

Drill from a core emotion to the exact one.

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Sensory Words List

A curated bank with a live generator.

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Connotative & Tone Words

Words grouped by the feeling they carry.

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Words Invented by Shakespeare

Words the Bard coined, from the everyday to the rare.

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Nonsense Words

Playful, old-fashioned words, sorted by feel.

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4. Get it submitted

Three live databases, refreshed on a schedule. The half that rewards a system over a mood.

Poetry Contests

Deadlines, fees and prizes, searchable and refreshed.

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Literary Magazines

Open windows, pay rates and response times.

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Writing Residencies

Deadlines, stipends and costs.

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All three in one chronology, soonest first: what closes next.

Deadline digest

Get the Thursday Deadline Digest

One email every Thursday with the contests, magazine windows and residencies closing soon. It covers every genre, poetry included, and poetry is already set as your main genre below. You also get a short welcome series and the occasional writing email. Everything in it stays free on this site.

Prefer no email at all? Every genre is also acalendar feed you can subscribe to.

Keep track of what is out

Submission Tracker

Which poems are out, where, and since when.

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Your Saved Items

Everything you starred across the tools.

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My Desk

Deadlines, submissions and saved work, on one page.

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Is Pro worth it for you?

Of the four kinds of writer this site serves, you are the one Writer's Toolkit Pro was designed around. It syncs your submission tracker between phone and desk and sends deadline alerts for just the genres you follow. Past a dozen poems in circulation, that is a system instead of a spreadsheet. With three, the free tools above are enough, and they stay free.