While not a common poetry genre the Five-Two blog posts a piece of crime poetry weekly and is always open to submissions. The poems are posted in both text and audio/video formats and the year’s 52 poems are reprinted as an ebook.
The blog is put together by Gerald So who says its purpose, ‘is to bear witness to current and historical crime poetically so the feeling behind the poems reaches countless readers, mirroring the impact of the crime.’ Check the website for any upcoming themes.
Poems of a maximum sixty lines of any style, form or tone are welcome and ‘honest, powerful reactions to what you see as crime’ are what is wanted. The website has examples of archived poetry and writing advice posts.