CRWROPPS Post: Simple Machines

Simple Machines, a new journal of poetry, will be open through January 31, 2021, for submissions for our inaugural issue, guest-edited by poet Ashley M. Jones. Our call:

 

While it is always a good time to read Lucille Clifton, this particularly tumultuous year has us holding tight onto the last lines of her poem "won't you celebrate with me": "...come celebrate /  with me that everyday /  something has tried to kill me / and has failed."

For the inaugural issue of Simple Machines, we're looking for poems working likewise and timely—as matchsticks and fire, as vessels of water to slake our thirst, as balm for the rattling gears inside our minds and bodies. Send us your celebrations and sirens, your potions and panacea, your simple machines and little engines of change—for something has tried to kill us and our voices must rise to the occasion. 

Guidelines and more at https://simplemachinesmag.org/