About
Jane Crown.

Jane Crown started Poetry Radioto track the poets the mainstream wasn’t booking yet — the voices showing up at coffeehouse open mics, basement bars, and community rooms long before any anthology had made room for them. The show has been on the air, in one form or another, since 2002. This site is its archive and its written-word companion.

The platform is intentionally small and intentionally selective. We don’t chase trends, we don’t court established names, and we don’t curate for marketability. We curate for honesty — for the work that has something to say and a particular voice with which to say it.

What We Publish

The archive is organized loosely into three sections: General (long-form essays, miscellany, and short reflections); Essays & Reflections(longer-form personal and critical writing); and Body (the body, the science of the body, and the way readers and contributors live inside it). The sections are descriptive, not prescriptive.

Submissions

We read submissions on a rolling basis. Send work to the address on the contact pagewith a short note about who you are and what the piece is. We try to respond within a few weeks. If we can’t publish something we’ll usually say why.

What We’re Not

We are not a literary magazine in the traditional sense. We are not affiliated with a university, an MFA program, or a publishing house. We have no advertisers and no investors. The show is run by a small editorial hand and exists to host work that wouldn’t otherwise be hosted.

For more on the platform’s mission and history, see our founding essay.