For all genres, we publish the following together:

A first or early draft of the work (called Early Draft)

A middle to late draft of the work (called Middle Draft)

The final and best version of the work (called Publication)


We have no formal thematic requirements or limitations; however, we are generally interested in work that:

Tells the story of survival, resistance, and healing

Imagines futures of care, justice, and liberation

Reckons with collective grief, action, and response

Explores the complex identities within and beyond the family system (childhood, parenthood, queer families and communities, estrangement, intergenerational exchange)

Remembers legacies and lineages

Centers indigenous knowledge, experiences, histories, and futures

Engages with desire, sex, sexuality, the erotic, and ritual

Honors all things: seeks to know the self

Examines our digital age and digs into our modern mythologies

Celebrates the natural world in its strangeness and beauty

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.

We welcome poetry in all forms, from experimental free verse and received forms to prose poems and erasure.