In honor of national poetry month, Planet Detroit is once again partnering with Room Project to ask for your poetry about climate change. We will publish up to six poems from Planet Detroit readers that grapple with life in Detroit amid a warming climate. We’ll offer a $50 stipend for selected poems and you’ll be invited to a special event to read your poem in June.

Submit your poem here no later than April 30.

Nina Misuraca Ignaczak is an award-winning Metro Detroit-based editor, journalist, and documentary filmmaker. She is the founder, publisher, and editor of Planet Detroit, a digital media startup focused on producing quality climate, health, and environment journalism that holds power accountable, and spotlights solutions. Planet Detroit has received awards and recognition from the Society for Professional Journalists Detroit, the Institute for Nonprofit News, and LION Publishers since its establishment in 2019. Prior to her journalism career, Nina worked in urban planning in local government and nonprofit sectors, holding a Master of Science in Natural Resource Ecology and a Bachelor of Science in Biology from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.