A church is any 2 who meet with me
“and only men can brush their hands across the / cages by the altar as the schoolchildren’s feet are clanking on the marble ceiling”
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Deadlines: April & May 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.
Cover Letter
“Satisfied bodies bloom green. / I othered art, / marketing my past.”
Jeans of the Disappeared Man
“the baby could have a family name, but spoken aloud, / he would be entirely American. John Paul, precious John Paul.”
A very accurate and complete profile of my grandmother
“That Door – Don’t Shut. / Just Cause – Your Birds Flew. / This Still – Our Home.”
One-Armed Prayer
By Vedran Husić
“grasping claws of tensile yellow / below skeleton blues whose delicate / tracery wafts into thin witnessed air—”
pantoum in which my body becomes a locked door
By Kay Kassirer
“I become the client as I hand over a few hundreds to the jaw specialist / recognizing the irony of how quickly this money comes and goes”
Interview with CAConrad, Judge of the 2025 Queer Poetry Prize
Celebrating Queer Poetry in the New Age of Heterosexual Violence & Absolute Stupidity!
“Коростень житомирской области…” and “salt circles”
Two poems by Angelic Goldsky.
“%gasping to (find the /pieces u (%ont . &earch for( ( …..”