Publications
Panorama 2025 Submission Guidelines
Send us one or more of your poems (maximum 3 poems) that won a prize (or received an honorable mention) in this year’s (2025) poetry contest, a poem that you submitted to one of the categories in the contest, a poem that has been published by a literary journal or magazine, poems that were submitted during the past few years to Panorama but were not published, or write us a new poem just for Panorama. Whatever you do, poems cannot have been previously published by UTSPS.
Here are the options for submitting your poems to be included in the 2025 Panorama:
- Email up to three of your poems in either the body of the email or as attached documents in .doc, .docx, or .odt format (but NOT PDF format) to: wiggly.kohler@gmail.com
- Mail hard copies to: Joyce Kohler, Panorama Editor, P.O. Box 84, Ephraim, UT, 84627.
Deadline for submissions is July 24, 2025.
Here are the submission guidelines for the 2025 Panorama:
Line limit: 40 lines, does not include epigraph or blank lines.
Spaces per line: 55 or less.
Subject: Any
Form: Any
If submitting a form such as sonnet, cinquain, ekphrastic, villanelle, acrostic, etc., please publish the name of the form under the title of the poem, in italics.
Please, NO poems that disparage others or that contain vulgarity (which includes erotica) or political statements.
Only current members and those who were members in 2023 and 2024 may enter (since this issue will cover years 2022-25). Place your contact information in the upper-right-hand corner of each submitted document. Contact information includes full name, address, city, state, zip code, mobile phone number, and email address.
If your poem(s) have been published, please note the publication or award(s).
You will not be notified whether your submission will be published in Panorama.
Our current editor of Panorama is Joyce Kohler. Assistant Editor is Michael Shoemaker.
UTSPS Books of the Year
Michael Parker is the UTSPS 2021 manuscript competition winner for, Divining the Spirits in the House of the Hush and Hush.
Markay Brown is the UTSPS 2019 manuscript competition winner for Planted in a Storm.
Geraldine Felt is the UTSPS 2018 manuscript competition winner for Dancing with Monarchs.
Anita Krotz is the UTSPS 2017 manuscript competition winner for Crosswinds.
Duane (dee) Rygh is the UTSPS 2016 manuscript competition winner for My Bright Red Scream.
Candy Lish Fowler is the UTSPS 2015 manuscript competition winner for On a Road That Knows Me.
Joyce Webb Kohler is the UTSPS 2014 manuscript competition winner for like water, like bread.
See UTSPS Book of The Year for a list of the winning manuscripts (from 1965 to 2017). For example poems from these books, see: UTSPS_BOY_Poems_List.pdf
UTSPS Members’ Publications
Esther Merritt Manning has published her debut collection My Castle Wall
Michael Shoemaker has published his debut collection Rocky Mountain Reflections
Elaine Wright Christensen has published Still That Summer Girl.
Roger Baker: Rabbit Lane: Memoir of a Country Road
Vera Ogden Bakker: Borrowed Breath
Marilyn Bushman-Carlton: Her Side of It (book)
Emery L. Campbell: This Gardener’s Impossible Dream (book), Selected Fables and Poems in Translation (chapbook)
Lin Vernon Floyd: Nature Notes for Kids
Maurine Haltiner: Every Angle of Moonshine, and Not So Far Afield
Rasoul Shams: Sand and Sky: Poems from Utah (Rasoul as editor); Rumi: The Art of Loving
Jerald Simon: The As If Principle: Motivational Poetry
Shane D. Williams: All Mixed Up – A Motley Horde Of Funny Poems