YellowJacket Press

05/01/2026

There's still plenty of time to submit to the YellowJacket Press Chapbook Contest! 🌟🌟🌟We can't wait to read your beautiful creations!

✨SUBMISSIONS CLOSE MAY 15th!!!✨

✨Hello Florida Poets! ☀️ 📝We are so excited to announce that submissions for the 2026 YellowJacket Press Chapbook Competition are now open! ⭐

✨We can’t wait to read your collections, and we wish you all creative success! We are proud to be the fiscal sponsor of YellowJacket Press, and thanks for all the support from our poetic community! 📖🖊️✨✨✨

✨Deadline to submit is midnight May 15, 2026!

✨Go to keepstpetelit.org for more info!

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04/17/2026

✨YellowJacket Press, Florida’s premier publisher of chapbooks by Florida poets since 2006, announces the forthcoming publication of Carol Ann Moon’s first chapbook, Sometimes a breast is not a breast is not a breast. The book of 20 vibrant, frank and beautifully-crafted sonnets deals with Carol Ann’s years-long battle with cancer. It has already garnered stellar blurbs. Terri Witek, Director of the MFA at Stetson, has called the book “a lovely and affecting collection by a fine poet.” Lake Angela of Poetry Midwives says, “Moon’s voice is many-faceted and omnipotent enough to conjure the angel form.”

✨We are proud to offer pre-sales of this important and long-awaited collection, which will be out within a few weeks. The fiscal sponsor of YellowJacket Press is KEEP ST. PETE LIT (KSPLit). We pre-selling the book from our website keepstpetelit.org

✨Please show your support for Carol Ann and order your copies today. Should you wish to support the press with an additional tax-deductible donation, just round up your purchase price. Thank you and CONGRATULATIONS to Carol Ann!

✨Price: $15.00

✨Payments should be made to [email protected] via PayPal

✨Please put your name and mailing address in the notes when making the payment to have it mailed to you.

04/04/2026

The submission window for the YellowJacket Press Chapbook Contest is OPEN, and we can't wait to read this year's submissions!!! ✨✨✨💃

Hello Florida Poets! ☀️ 📝We are so excited to announce that submissions for the 2026 YellowJacket Press Chapbook Competition will open on April 1st! ⭐ We can't wait to read your collections, and we wish you all creative success! Thank you to Keep St. Pete Lit for being our fiscal sponsor, and thanks for all the support from our poetic community! 📖🖊️✨✨✨

03/18/2026

Hello Florida Poets! ☀️ 📝We are so excited to announce that submissions for the 2026 YellowJacket Press Chapbook Competition will open on April 1st! ⭐ We can't wait to read your collections, and we wish you all creative success! Thank you to Keep St. Pete Lit for being our fiscal sponsor, and thanks for all the support from our poetic community! 📖🖊️✨✨✨

01/25/2026

BIG congratulations to the Winner of the 2025 YellowJacket Press Chapbook contest, Cari Oleskewicz for her chapbook, Ocala: Poems from Horse Country and Beyond!!! 🎉🎉🎉 We are so excited for her to share her poems at her launch at Poetry Open Mic Night at Studio 620 on February 4th at 7 pm! See you there! ❤️

04/08/2021

In honor of National Poetry Month, the Wordsmith of the city is throwing down a challenge to all you other wordsmiths and poets. Write a poem—Tell it!—about our fair city, Tampa, otherwise known as T-Town, the Big Guava, Gasparilla Queen, Home of the Bolts, Super Bowl Host-with-the-Most, —whatever you like to call her. Think about it. Poems about places are ubiquitous....

In honor of National Poetry Month, the Wordsmith of the city is throwing down a challenge to all you other wordsmiths and poets. Write a poem—Tell it!—about our fair city, Tampa, otherwise known as…

12/21/2020

Wellswood, 1960s No midnight mass. Just a star in the punk tree. My sisters and I put on velvet pantsuits our mother made. It took her months, the lace on the wrists. Red, maroon, aquamarine. My mother blonde-rinsed her hair, coated her long nails in Pearl. She wore a silver caftan and lovely rings— amber topaz and a gold B....

Wellswood, 1960s No midnight mass. Just a star in…

12/18/2020

I am excited to post Dailies written by other poets: Two by Mary Jane Ryals, Poet Laureate of Florida's Big Bend: Voting Day 11/3/2020 Sun tricks pine straw into golden. Branches are veins squirrels run down. I know only this today. Late Afternoon, Fall The last tiger striped and monarch butterflies touch down on red lantana. Sky will jilt us…...

I am excited to post Dailies written by other poets: Two by Mary Jane Ryals, Poet Laureate of Florida’s Big Bend: Voting Day 11/3/2020 Sun tricks  pine straw into golden.  Bran…

11/24/2020

A new poetry form created in a fit of inadequate self-confidence and creative desperation! This is a new form that I created in October 2020. Well, at least, I have never seen this form before. Feeling stressed and overwhelmed by the world, but wanting and needing to produce work during my sabbatical, I came up with something I thought would be "too small to fail" (in the words of Ariana Huffington....

A new poetry form created in a fit of inadequate self-confidence and creative desperation! This is a new form that I created in October 2020. Well, at least, I have never seen this form before. F…

09/24/2020

2020: The world has changed. Suffering, loss, fear, isolation are the constants all around us and in our lives. But there is still joy. Still art. Still humanity, compassion and caring for others. I've been keeping a "pandemic journal" since mid-March and was posting nearly daily posts on "The Joys of Stay at Home" on Facebook for 5 or 6 weeks. [ 280 more words ]

2020: The world has changed. Suffering, loss, fear, isolation are the constants all around us and in our lives. But there is still joy. Still art. Still humanity, compassion and caring for others. …