Since 2016, ACW has invited writers of all ages, experience levels, and locations within the North Country to send poems to be published and installed in windows in Saranac Lake and around the region during National Poetry Month. 

Want to see your poetry printed on a beautiful poster and displayed in shop windows? This year, poems will be hung in Saranac Lake as well as Malone and St. Lawrence County thanks to participating organizations, Downtown Artist Cellar and St. Lawrence County Arts Council. Everyone who submits will be published, as long as the basic guidelines are met:

• Your poem must be under 25 lines (or 300 words, whichever comes first)
• Your poem can be on any subject, but it can’t contain explicit content or any hateful speech
• You must live in the “North Country” of NY State (north of Albany – Utica – Syracuse).
• It must be submitted via our Submittable

What is PoemVillage?

“Every spring in the North County, the April showers cause a variety of poems to flood into the Adirondack Center for Writing, and the deluge creates Poem Village.” — Your neighbors are poets. Maybe you are too! by Mountain Lake PBS Spotlight

Since 2016, ACW has invited writers of all ages, experience levels, and locations within the North Country to send poems to be published and installed in windows in Saranac Lake during National Poetry Month.

Poem Village is an annual, village-wide beautification project that gives writers a chance to publish their work and reach audiences of passersby, visitors, and Saranac Lake locals.