Type Of Publisher
Magazine
Genres Published
Poetry
Year Established
2021
Address
Lake Charles, LA
Name
Dusti RW Levy
Title
Founder & Editor
Email
Mission Statement / Editorial Focus
delicate emissions poetry zine is a quarterly, brochure-sized zine that publishes poems of fifteen or fewer lines. We're queer-run, anti-racist, pro-trans, and pro-liberation in our philosophy; though our poems aren't necessarily explicitly about those ideas, they definitely don't defy them. In 2025, we moved to accepting submissions that may have been self-published by a poet on their own social media sites. This is an effort to embrace the new realities of publishing, and to push back against publications who would turn their nose up at any kind of self-publishing while also refusing to accept a submission that a poet had published on their own Instagram account or blog. We're proud to feature work by established poets as well as those who are new to being published. We provide a contributor's copy to each poet with accepted work (so long as they provide us with a mailing address). Our goal is to become a paying market in the future through subscription payments and donations. Physical copies of the zine are available in our Ko-Fi store, and an online issue is published on our website, with past issues also linked on our LinkTree.
Accepts Unsolicited Submissions
yes
Submission Guidelines URL
Reading Period
Varies
Response Time
2 weeks after closing date
Charges Writers A Submission/Reading Fee
no
Author Payments
copies
Formats
print, digital
Contests
no
Number Of Issues Per Year
4
Price Per Issue
$3.00
Subscription Price
$10.00
Total Subscribers
2
Total Circulation
15
Distributors
none yet
What Do You Look For In A Submission?
First, the poet has followed the guidelines. Second, the poet uses language in a compelling way. We really get excited when the image and language work together so the we can see it as a film in our minds. Also: cool line endings!
What Advice Do You Have For First-time Submitters?
Read our past issues — all available at no cost online — to see what moves us and it your work would be a good fit. Also, read the guidelines carefully. And if you have any questions about the guidelines, email us.
Who Is Your Ideal Reader?
A reader who is curious about poetry and wants to get perspective of both new and established writers.
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