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Our mission is to explore new territories of the imagination by using the traditional techniques of poetry.
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These past contest winning books and other Ex Ophidia publications are available from Asterism Books or Amazon.
Richard-Gabriel Rummonds Poetry Contest
The Ex Ophidia Press Annual poetry contest is named in honor of Richard-Gabriel Rummonds who founded Ex Ophidia Press in 2014. The prize is for a full-length poetry collection.
About the Press
Ex Ophidia Press aims to publish at least one poetry collection a year chosen from the submissions in our annual poetry prize contest.
Most Recent Publication | 2025 Contest Winner
Smolder
Colleen Morton Busch
In Smolder, the lens of being witness to what the beloved must endure shows a world simultaneously abundant with tenderness, lucency, emptiness, hopeful math, acheful grief, bald ibis, flammable trees, orcas, desire to be “body to body,” doctor visits, what one would give up, and the intertwining existence of the more-than-human world as a respite to the chatter of the mind, of the “restless whole.”
– Felicia Zamora, 2025 judge and author of Interstitial Archaeology
Recent News
Advance Praise for Smolder by Colleen Morton Busch
In Smolder, the lens of being witness to what the beloved must endure shows a world simultaneously abundant with tenderness, lucency, emptiness, hopeful math, acheful grief, bald ibis, flammable trees, orcas, desire to be “body to body,” doctor visits, what one would...
2024 Ex Ophidia Press Contest Winner Publishes Three Poems in One Art Poetry
Colleen Morton Busch’s poem included in 50th issue of the Bellevue Literary Review
A virtual reading with contributors will be hosted on Thursday, May 28, at 7:00 p.m. ET. View post for most details.