About us

The Poetry Network was formed during National Poetry Month 2020 as a collective of poets gathered to form an online community to share their work with other lovers of poetry. We hope to sponsor contests, collections, individual collections, and events in the future. At present, we’re hosting poetry, audio and video of poets reading their words, educational materials related to poetry (forthcoming), and site updates.

The site is edited by Chris Maxwell.

Chris Maxwell served nineteen years as lead pastor in Orlando, Florida, after five years of youth ministry. He’s now in his fourteenth year as Campus Pastor and Director of Spiritual Life at Emmanuel College. He speaks in churches, conventions, and schools, and is the author of ten books, including Pause With Jesus, Underwater, and his first collection of poems, a slow and sudden God: 40 years of wonder. His latest book is his second collection of poems—embracing now: pain, joy, healing, living.