One-Armed Prayer
By Vedran Husić
“grasping claws of tensile yellow / below skeleton blues whose delicate / tracery wafts into thin witnessed air—”
Obsidian Butterfly
Had I not stolen that book, I most likely would not have been a writer.
weedy seadragons
“everything, even gain, / is some kind of loss. even after.”
antihero
“in a single breath / fought off an evil corporate polluter / without somuchas a lawyer”
Featured Poetry
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Swimming Lesson
“the familiar games you invented: / complicated, one-foot races across // the shallow end.”
Deadlines: February & March 2025
Every middle of the month: new deadlines, new contests, and new opportunities for your work to find its audience. Here is a roundup of ten submission opportunities with deadlines in the next two months.