Poetry for an epic new era of curiosity.

Augustan Age is a poetry press that publishes a wide variety of verse collections, from nature poetry to revolutionary poetry to historical poetry to traditional form poetry. Featuring everything from slim chapbooks to full-length collections and all the experimental and hybrid spaces in between, Augustan Age is dedicated to preserving and promoting the diverse poetic voices of our new era of change, awareness, identity, and self.

New & Upcoming Releases

REVERSE MIGRATION: NOT COMING HOME by Leah Angstman

THE SIGHS OF WOMEN BECOMING by Leah Angstman

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News

8-16-25: Thank you for your patience while we fixed our mobile bugs. The mobile version of this page should be good to go now. Let us know if there are more issues!
8-4-25: Submissions are officially open.
7-17-25: We’re launching the site, although not all of the links will be working yet. Thank you for your patience while we update the new material.
7-16-25: We’re finally here. New website.

Past News

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Submissions

Augustan Age accepts submissions year-round of poetry only, although that format and definition can be broad. We do not publish anything else except poetry. Submit via Submittable. We will do our best to respond within a few weeks, but please don’t follow up excessively; reading submissions takes a lot of time. Authors: don’t submit via email; our inbox is for correspondence only. Agents: you may send pitches via email.

Code of Conduct: Augustan Age expects its authors and staff to be kind literary citizens within the industry and to conduct themselves with decency in the public sphere, which includes social-media profiles. We reserve the right to sever ties and contracts with authors or staff who target or harass others; use racist, homophobic, xenophobic, ableist, or otherwise derogatory remarks toward others in public media; publish external material that is harmful to others; or otherwise conduct themselves in a way that would reflect poorly on our press. Literary citizenship is important to us, and the literary community is small and tight-knit. We all need one another, and we rise by lifting others.

Distribution, Sales, & ARCs

Our books can be ordered and shelved globally in paperback, ebook, and audiobook (if applicable) anywhere books are borrowed or sold. They are available via all major online retailers, including Amazon, Kindle, Nook, Kobo, eBooks.com, Barnes & Noble, Books-a-Million, Waterstones, and Blackwell’s; from your favorite bookstore, library, or university via Ingram, OverDrive, Hoopla, Baker & Taylor, Asterism Books, and Bookshop; to the industry via Edelweiss+ (requires free login to access), and in-person at bookfairs and author events around the United States.

Booksellers: please order through Ingram at 55% discount with returns accepted and sign up on our bookstore list if you want tips for shelving, displaying, and promoting our books and authors around certain holidays, poetry events, or local interests. Industry buyers and rights acquirers: please email us for any information you need. ARCs and review materials are available to anyone interested in reviewing or promoting one of our titles; please email for review copies and sign up on our publicity list to be notified when new ARCs are available to promoters.

Branding: Our colors are hex #12121C (very dark navy blue), #283A43 (dark navy-teal blue), #7DA7A2 (teal), #C8A870 (tan), #FCB900 (orange). Our high-res logo can be downloaded here, and our icon logo can be downloaded here.

Our Books Win Awards!

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Author & Press Events

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Greg Garnett is the co-editor of Augustan Age. He is looking for the next Ted Kooser, Ocean Vuong, Louise Glück, Natasha Trethewey, Tiana Clark, Franny Choi, Claudia Rankine, Ilya Kaminsky, Jericho Brown, Joy Harjo, Wisława Szymborska, and Robin Coste Lewis.

Lesley Mackling (she/her) is the co-editor of Augustan Age. She is looking for the next Sylvia Plath, Hanif Abdurraqib, Ada Limón, Maggie Smith, Emma Bolden, Amanda Gorman, Saeed Jones, Natalie Diaz, Micah Ling, Rebecca Schumejda, and Alfred Lord Tennyson.

Emma Berver is the Social Media Administrator, Spanish Translations Editor, and Submissions Reader for Augustan Age. Originally from the D.C. area, she is a poet and aspiring short story writer working in Boston. Emma is looking for the next Natalie Shapero, Aimee Nezhukumatathil, K. Iver, Gabriela Mistral, torrin a. greathouse, and Gabrielle Calvocoressi.

Emma Atkins is a Submissions Reader for Augustan Age.

Caitlin Cacciatore is a Submissions Reader for Augustan Age. She is a poet and essayist from the outskirts of New York City living in a small, coastal town called Arverne by the Sea. Caitlin is looking for the next Zbigniew Herbert, Adam Zagajewski, Mary Oliver, Wendy Xu, Mark Wunderlich, Terrance Hayes, Tracy K. Smith, Jane Hirshfield, and Audre Lorde.