Poetry Quarter for May 2025 – The Poetry of home 

The Poetry of home 

Call for submissions 

Home – there’s no place like it! Even board games have a “home” square where you are safe from all comers! In hide-and-go-seek, “home free!” is the call of triumph and relief. Home is where you find comfort from the world, where you can be, in short, “at home.” 

Let us know your poetic thoughts on the idea of home, the longing for it, the sanctuary it can provide, or the heartbreakingly easily-fallen-into pit of homelessness.  

As usual, poems should be: 

• Original and unpublished in any medium (no poems submitted elsewhere, please); 

• No more than 30 lines each; 

• On any aspect of the theme within the bounds of public discourse; and 

• Submitted on or before Monday, April 21, 2025. 

Poets in the National Capital Region of all ages welcome (school-age poets, please indicate your grade and school). Please send your entries (up to 5 poems that meet the criteria) to editor@ glebereport.ca. Remember to send us your contact information and your grade and school if you are in school.  

Deadline: Monday, April 21, 2025.