[Manuscripts are posted here as they are received, alphabetically by title. Please check back often & remember to refresh this page.]

The Allison Joseph Series
(postmarked or emailed between November 1 and November 30, 2024)

• Learning Cursive
• Diasporadic
• Drowning and Other Nostalgias
• Flame Kimono
• Mama’s Good Platter
• The Pillar Dweller’s Handbook—forthcoming from Isabel Cristina Legarda
• Pine Barren Diptych
• The Reckoning
• Remnants and Revisions
• Save It for a Better Day
• Sistered Rafters
• Such Ruinous Love
• You Can Have It

The Rane Arroyo Series

(postmarked or emailed between October 1 and October 31, 2024)

• Advice to a Young Poet From Your Uncle in Canarsie
• After the Rain
• Almost There
• The Beautiful Thing
• Beneath the Choique’s Foot: Patagonian Tankas
• Bird of Prayer
• Bliss Road—forthcoming from Joshua Zeitler
• Blue Stingers Instead of Wings
• brainrot elegies
• Bring Me the Head
• Cicada Songs—forthcoming from Marzelle Robertson
• Collect for the Feast
• Critters
• DAYTIMEPOET
• Decidedly Uncertain
• The 8 Ancient Geek Words for Love
• Exiles of Hope
• Fish in love
• The Golden Age, Forever
• Gray Bar
• Homage to Hatless Herstory
• Inside the Infrastructure
• Into the Land of Nod
• It’s This City They’re Doing to Us
• Kaleidoscope Spill
• Least Said
• Masonry of Breath and Bone
• My Ear Is a Magnet for Music
• Music as Scripture
• Nascent Sun
• NATURE’S NURTURE, love-child home
• Neolithic Imaginings
• Oxygen Simulator
• Post-Mortem
• protégé
• Queens
• Reality
• The Riddle of Midnight
• The Shape of Things Unseen
• Someone Else
• Swallowed by Lions
• Terrible Baby, Beastly Baby
• Trajectories
• Want
• With Grief, You Listen
• A Wolf in Her Violin

The Keystone Series

(postmarked or emailed between June 1 and June 30, 2024)

• As a Tourist
• Aversion to This Dream
• Before Time
• Brace
• Everything I Said and Didn’t Say
• Garbage City Poems
• In Mo(u)rning
• In the Living Room
• Life’s Wake
• Love Songs
• Magdalene
• My Mother’s Husbands
• Nimble Light on Branches
• Object Permanence in America
• Poems of October 7
• Saved
• Shadow of the Black Dog
• Sing, Dark Times—forthcoming from Brian Patrick Heston
• The Song of Deborah and Jael
• Swim Lessons
• time flies
• What Lies Beyond
• young girl in the flower of time

The Robin Becker Series

(postmarked or emailed between April 1 and April 30, 2024)

• 90s Feminist Mentality
• The Dead Time Carousel
• Forests of Woundedness—forthcoming from Jan Wiezorek
• god is not dead among the microplastics
• Grab-n-Go
• The Honey King
• Kitchen Small-Talk—forthcoming from Regina Ruggiero
• Locating Want
• Purple and Dissonance
• Seltzer Queen
• subway
• Thank You More Please
• To Love
• Unshuttered
• venomous gardens still thrive
• You were the main event

The A.V. Christie Series

(postmarked or emailed between February 1 and February 29, 2024)

• Addendum
• Aftermath
• Alphabet of a Move at Mid-Life
• Another Anthomaniac
• ArtBeat
• Awakening
• Blue Shadows
• Breaks & Interruptions
• Coming Round
• Corporeal
• Detached Braid in a Drawer
• Dying to Reach You
• Elegy with Clouds &
• Everything Is Ridiculous Without You
• Exhalation
• Fog Machine
• Forget
• Gaea
• The Garden of the Universe
• I Had All Those Things
• In the Company of Finches
• Late Promise
• Leavened by Earth
• Leaves Barely Showing
• A Life in Runes
• Loss Is Loss
• Mimosas at Sunset
• Music as Scripture
• [name it later]
• The Nature of Unfinishedness
• The Night House
• Night Swimmers by Jody Winer
• Now the Repairman
• Other Islands
• The Other Question
• Prie Dieu
• Quick
• Red Rain
• River of Years
• Sermon of Swallows
• A Shade I Cannot Name
• The Skylark
• Small Galaxies for Breakfast
• Stars I Could Not Calculate
• Sweet Departure
• Tambourine
• Variations on a Nomad Flute
• What the Hollow Held—forthcoming from Rebekah Wolman
• Whole Cloth

The Summer Kitchen Series

(postmarked or emailed between January 1 and January 31, 2024)

• Always, hopefully, soon by Trevor Moffa
• As If We Know the World
• Big Man
• Black Jack Ace
• A Child’s Sketch of the Afterlife–accepted elsewhere: congratulations to Brian Dickson
• Country Love Poems
• Daisy Womb
• Elusive Acquaintances
• Finding Reality
• Flowers from Apocrypha
• Gertrude Stein Stops at Zesto’s
• The Girls
• Given and Taken Away
• Huswifery and Higher Math
• Instant
• Letters to Gilgamesh
• Long for This World by Karen McPherson
• Mitzvah
• Only the Dead Survive
• Opening
• Over the Fence
• Pale Horses
• Passings
• The Plum
• Postcards from the Knife Thrower
• Prince of the Air by Robert Fanning
• Recount and Prophecy
• A Rendering
• The Subtraction of One
• Variations on My Life
• Vintaged
• What Couldn’t Be Fixed by Connie Wieneke
• Whatever You Got Going On
• Where’s My Dad?
• Wilderness Bardo
• Winding Paths
• With swan’s nest on her back
• You Are One of Only a Few Who Know