Poetry Town

ABOUT

Poetry Town is a Substack newsletter run by George Bilgere, an American poet known for plainspoken, narrative-driven poems about domestic life, aging, and everyday observation. Bilgere is the author of multiple full-length collections and has been a fixture of accessible, mainstream American poetry for two decades; the newsletter extends that sensibility into a serial format, pairing a poem (his own or another poet's) with brief prose commentary in the tradition of a poem-a-day column rather than a literary magazine.

As of this listing, the Substack URL returns a "page not found" error, meaning the newsletter has either been taken down, renamed, or moved off Substack — treat the current URL as unreliable and verify directly before submitting or subscribing. No submission call, fee, pay rate, or founding date is evidenced anywhere on the site; this appears to be a single-author newsletter (Bilgere writing/curating himself) rather than an open market, so unsolicited submissions were likely never part of its model even when active.