Please send us up to three poems! For each poem, include two drafts and one final version. Please only submit work where all versions are less than 50 lines (or two pages). We welcome poetry in all forms, from experimental free verse and received forms to prose poems and erasure. We are able to recognize indentation, spaces, and line breaks. Please note that poems with longer line lengths may appear altered, especially on smaller screens.
We are interested in work that tells the story of survival, resistance, and healing; imagines futures of care, justice, and liberation; reckons with collective grief; explores complex identities; remembers legacies and lineages; centers indigenous knowledge; engages in desire, sex, sexuality, the erotic, and ritual; examines the digital age and digs into modern mythologies; celebrates the natural world; is beautiful, and offers comfort in times of grief. While these are suggestions of themes that we are interested in, we are open to any work that, through revision and experimentation, persists in telling a compelling story.
As we publish drafts alongside the final piece, please make sure you have reviewed our full Submission Guidelines. We can’t wait to read your work and witness your process!
