Poetry: Indie Poetry Please Archives

Indie Poetry Please Is Taking A Break: Open Post

September 15, 2023September 3, 2023 by Orna Ross

I’m taking a break from the Indie Poetry Please competition, to focus on my own writing for a time. Poets, keep writing. Back soon!

Open Poetry Post. #IndiePoetryPlease Contest #14.

July 31, 2023June 14, 2023 by Orna Ross

Win ebooks and exposure! This week’s #PoetryContest is inspired by Aisling (pronounced “ashling”), a famous Irish language form—a patriotic, dream-vision, political poem developed in response to English colonialism in Ireland.

#IndiePoetryPlease Contest Winner: Ashe Kaye

May 24, 2023May 24, 2023 by Orna Ross

Please join me in congratulating this week’s #IndiePoetryPlease Contest Winner: Ashe Kaye (@afkayewrites), and their winning entry – When the House Creaks

#IndiePoetryPlease Contest: Home Place

June 20, 2023May 17, 2023 by Orna Ross

Win ebooks and exposure! This week’s #PoetryContest is inspired by the hearth and heart – home. 🏡

The theme of this week’s #IndiePoetryPlease Contest: Home Place

#IndiePoetryPlease Contest Winner: Angel Santos

June 20, 2023May 10, 2023 by Orna Ross

Please join me in congratulating this week’s #IndiePoetryPlease Contest Winner: Angel Santos (@instarflights65), and his winning entry – Anthropos 🏆

Indie Poetry Please! Call for Submissions – April 2022

April 30, 2023April 19, 2022 by Orna Ross

It’s time to submit your poems for a chance to feature in Indie Poetry Please! My Indie Poetry Please! feature … Read more

Inspirational Poetry Reading: “One of Mine and One of Yours” with Susan Cathro

April 30, 2023March 8, 2022 by Orna Ross

This week, in “One of Mine and One of Yours”, my inspirational poetry reading on Instagram Live, we featured “I … Read more

Indie Poetry Please! Update

April 30, 2023February 14, 2022 by Orna Ross

Indie Poetry Please! Call for Submissions - May 2022

It’s time to submit your poems for a chance to feature in Indie Poetry Please! My Indie Poetry Please! feature … Read more

Indie Poetry Please!: Liezel Graham

April 30, 2023September 30, 2020 by Orna Ross

Each week, I select a winning poem from the “Indie Poetry Please” feature on Instagram, which is announced here on … Read more

Indie Poetry Please! 03: Vanessa Kisuule, Chris Black and Ann Hartigan

April 30, 2023July 15, 2020 by Orna Ross

This is a summary of this fortnight’s #indiepoetryplease, my Instagram TV poetry reading, in which I read some of my own poetry and some poems from other indie poets I admire.

The aim of #indiepoetryplease is to introduce viewers to some of the most exciting, inspiring, and dynamic voices working in poetry today.

Indie Poetry Please! 02: Tolu Agbelusi, Saili Katebe and @pensandpavement

April 30, 2023June 30, 2020 by Orna Ross

This is the Instagram TV reading from Indie Poetry Please! — In each session, I’ll be reading three of my own poems and three poems from other indie poets I admire.

The theme this week is “Black Lives Matter” and includes poems from Tolu Agbelusi, Saili Katebe and @pensandpavement.

I’ll be introducing listeners to some of the most exciting, inspiring, and dynamic voices working in poetry today.