send poets, guns, and money ... we're making art
Poet Land exists because the gap between a project and the $800 it needs to finish is where a lot of good work quietly stops. We close that gap.
Micro-Grants — $500–$1,500, unrestricted, for supplies, studio time, or project costs.
Poet Land Press — a non-profit publishing house for poetry, non-fiction, and literature that takes on work with no obvious commercial home.
real money. real fast
$500–$1,500. Unrestricted. Decided by people who make art themselves.
We provide grants to creatives who need cash to make bad-ass art. Writers. Painters. Dancers. Sculptors. Musicians. Composers. Visual artists. Poets. Playwriters.
We see art as a revolution. And micro-grants is how we fund it. One small grant at a time until the world is more beautiful.
Micro-grants exist to cover the costs that stall a project: a semester of studio rent, a print run, travel to a residency, childcare during a writing sprint, materials for a show. Hell, maybe all you nee is a new et of brushes. We got you. We don’t restrict how the money is spent and we don’t ask for it back. We just want to give you the
grant awardees
finally, a press as punk as you
Poet Land Press publishes poetry, non-fiction, and literature — the kind of high-risk, high-value work that a commercial press might pass on precisely because it doesn’t have a clean sales comp. As a non-profit press, we don’t have to make that trade. We care about integrity, not margins.
How it works
– Editorially independent: an Editor-in-Chief and volunteer editorial board select what’s published, not some corporate overlord in a big, shiny building.
– We take no ownership stake in any work we publish. You wrote it. You own it. Period.
– 90% of all profits from Poet Land Press sales go back to the artists. Hey, we’re a nonprofit. We can’t steal from you.
– Print and e-book editions are sold on digital platforms and, when it makes sense, at physical bricks-and-mortar locations.
Submissions
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turn your dollars into art. not taxes.
Our money doesn’t come from institutions. It comes for you. People that love art. People that value creative freedom. You know, donors. Most of your support comes from small donations of $50 to $100. But when we bring together a community of art lovers and readers, we give artists the freedom they need to create.
Every dollar into the Micro-Grant Program goes directly to our mission, with $0.90 of every dollar going to artists. We don’t have a big overhead or fancy offices. We have a group of overworked volunteers and an espresso machine. And hope. And that is enough to fund a revolution.
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