
Editorial Focus
A wide variety of poetics works here, and you’ll have the most success submitting poems that can do these three things well:
- Feel good leaving the mouth.
- Use original or interesting language skillfully.
- Use visual spacing, narrative pacing, consistent meter, or any combination of these to make the reading capture the reader.
Thematically, writing with tinges of the dreamlike or unreal is a good bet, but anything goes. Voices of people of color, neurodivergent people, and LGBTQ+ people are welcomed here.
Tips From the Editor
Response time is about three days. Good contrapuntal poems are almost always an in; I also have an unrequited desire for erasure poetry that works in conversation with the source text. Lastly, while issues are not specifically themed, I do try to fit the tone of each issue to the season.