If I Imagine Love at All
“I have not yet inhaled the hair of this man / who will take me in my too-rough sheets.”
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Deadlines: August & September 2024
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.
Partition Happened to Us Too
By ena ganguly
“the whispers do not fail to reach our ears / like spider webs we walk into them / without knowing it”
2024 Love & Eros Prize: Winners & Finalists
Please join us in congratulating these remarkable poets. Winners were selected by John Lee Clark.
claiming to know the tense in which love happens
“when nothing is happening, when nothing is being said, but you feel like life is finally happening, even if you are just catching their jawline and no one else knows why you almost dropped your wine.”
Bedroom at the End of the World
“For three weeks I watch geese at sunset / outside the hospital window, bellies lit orange”
After Making Love at 6AM, I Leave You in My Bed
“like a cry of ecstasy, and the solemn / countenance of the resin Mary / perched above my desk looks coy-“
what my almost lover’s husband knows
By Skye Jackson
“my body drips inky like the night / in my almost lover’s arms; / torso bends, metallic & lush,”
BALLAD FOR VIOLENT THINGS, RED THINGS, THINGS THAT CAN BE EATEN
By Rue Huang
“ALL MY THOUGHTS / ARE RIDDLED WITH DAYBREAK, / THICK WITH TEETH.”