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Red Flag Poetry is based in Indiana, PA, just before the hills become mountains. We are a poetry postcard project at heart that also publishes chapbooks and collections! Each month, we publish a new postcard featuring a pithy poem and great art to spice up your snail mail.

Check out some of our previously published postcards, listen to our podcasts, pick up a chapbook or full-length collection from our store, or subscribe to get these great postcards mailed to you!

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Ben Pitts: Spared Parts

1/15/2017

Check out our poem from December!

Maura Alia Badji: I Don't Remember Where

12/15/2016

If you're not a subscriber, you missed an amazing postcard in November. Check it out digitally here and then you should subscribe because right now our subscriptions are Buy one Get one Half off! This is a great holiday gift that lasts all year long!

Steve Shilling: 4th Grade Spelling Bee Champion

11/15/2016

Check out the poem from October!

Kenneth Sherwood: Note from Theory Class

10/15/2016

We returned to school with Kenneth Sherwood's Note from Theory Class, and if you missed it, here you are. Be sure to check out his interview too and share everything with your friends!

Antonio Vallone: PA Summers

9/15/2016

PA Summers is a great poem that has its genesis in Twitter's 160 chars rule. If you didn't get it in your mailbox, check it out here and then hop over to Poetry Express and read Antonio's poem there too!

Kevin Risner: Mondays

8/15/2016

Why not order a copy of this and send it to someone who needs it? Kevin gets it. Click here to order a single copy of our July postcard!

David E. Howerton: The Last time 3

7/15/2016

David E. Howerton's poem from June paired really well with Allen Forrest's painting! Check it out!

Nadia Zamin: Gardening

6/15/2016

Check out May's great poem that may not have been in your mailbox if you haven't subscribed!

Darren C. Demaree: Nude Male with Echo #251

5/15/2016

Check out this postcard from April!

Ben Stein: Lions

4/15/2016

Ben Stein's Lions ushered us into March, so check it out here if you missed it! Special thanks go out to Christina Cassone for allowing us to use her great artwork too.

Laura Scroggs: it wasn't the iv

3/15/2016

This poem made a lot of waves with our staff, what do you think? Laura wrote a great poem and Shawn McClure gave us this great image to go along with it.

Lisa Panepinto: What are You Going to Do Now?

2/15/2016

January was a pretty warm month around here, but now that the cold has finally set in, check out Lisa Panepinto's poem "What are You Going to Do Now?"

Amanda Oaks: Insurgency

1/15/2016

For your viewing pleasure, here is our December 2015 postcard! This was an important card for us because it was Red Flag's 1 year anniversary, and to celebrate we had an amazing poem from Amanda Oaks.

Jordi Alonso: Forecast

12/16/2015

Check out this poem from November and then head over to Amazon to pick up a copy of Jordi's collection, Honeyvoiced!

Natalie DeFour: Cooking Stories

11/15/2015

If you missed the great poem from October, check it out here! What do you think?

Adam Mandan: Highway, Confused, and Nightwind - Short Poems

10/15/2015

Here are the three great short poems from our September card!

m.nicole.r.wildhood: Vapor

9/15/2015

Check out Vapor, the great poem from August by Seattle poet m.nicole.r.wildhood, and then subscribe so you can get great poems like hers delivered to your mailbox each month!

John Dorsey: at 37 for mikey west

8/15/2015

Want another gander at John Dorsey's postcard? How about a second time listening to his reading?

Lindsay Vreeland: A Poem on Atheism

7/16/2015

Miss June's poem? Check it out!

Daryl N. Muranaka: Camping at Chuzenji-ko

6/16/2015

Missed May 1st's amazing poem? Check it out here!

Colin James: Panther of the Parenthetical

5/14/2015

Missed April's poem? You're welcome.

Jill Alexandra Jablonski: Trapped

4/15/2015

Have you heard Jill read Trapped? Check it out here!

Wesley Scott McMasters: 3 Haiku for October

3/15/2015

Before Wes was part of the Red Flag editorial team he was one of our favorite contributors. Enjoy!

Sam Fetters: January the First

2/15/2015

Want to hear Sam Fetters read January the first? Click here!

Chris Riley: There's no way

1/10/2015

Missed Chris Riley's poem on 12.1? Check it out here.