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Chicago Poetry Magazine believes that poetry is connected to human society in diverse and meaningful ways.
Poetry is a literary form and an artistic tradition thousands of years old, going back to the oral tradition.
Poetry is catharsis, philosophy, and spirituality.
Poetry is scientific, humorous, and surreal.
Poetry is the story of the great and the small,
the triumph and the struggle – the record of our life and time.
Poetry is all of these things, and more.
Chicago Poetry Magazine is committed to reflecting the true scope of poetry and by doing so, to bringing more poets and more readers into the global poetry community.
Chicago Poetry Magazine seeks submissions from poets from all backgrounds and levels of experience, from all places on Earth. All topics are welcome. All styles. Literary, spoken word, free verse, rhyming, haiku, sonnets, prose – all types and forms of poems are welcome.
Chicago Poetry Magazine is a qualifying publication for the Poetry World Cup.
New issues are published on January 15th, May 15th, and September 15th of every year.
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About the Editor
Kirk Ramdath is the publisher, editor, and designer of Chicago Poetry Magazine
and the waxpoetryart.com publications.
He has read and performed at poetry events in Vancouver, Toronto, Halifax, and many other cities in Canada.
Kirk had the honour of opening the world-famous Peace Bridge in Calgary in 2012.
Watch the video.
He has been a publisher since 2005.
He also organized many dozen poetry events, around the 2010s.
Particularly, open-mic poetry events with a featured artist.
Kirk's first book, Love in a Handful of Dust,
was published by Florencia Bay Books in 2025
and was originally published in print by Frontenac House in 2011.
In 2002, Kirk obtained a Bachelor of Arts in English Literature, with Distinction,
and a Minor in Philosophy from the University of Calgary, in Canada.
Kirk was born in Trinidad and Tobago, moved to Canada at age 10 with his family,
and now writes and publishes from Nanaimo, British Columbia, Canada.
Publication Information
Chicago Poetry Magazine
Published online in Nanaimo, British Columbia, Canada.
Publisher, Managing Editor, & Designer: Kirk Ramdath.
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