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Submissions to Patrycja Humienik’s Guest Edited Folio “On Devotion” Open November 1 – November 16.

For our Winter/Spring 2026 issue, Guest Editor Patrycja Humienik will curate a folio of poems for the theme “On Devotion.”
From Patrycja Humienik: What is devotion? What are you devoted to? What do you want to be devoted to?
In her poem, “On Kingdoms,” Joanna Klink writes: “Devotion is full of arrows.” Arrows are an ancient technology. They suggest vision, movement, weapon. Does devotion necessitate aim? Can it be a weapon? Does it chart our path forward? Does devotion protect us, and what from? The gorgeous echo of eros in the word “arrows” invites, too, the question of desire. How is devotion distinct from desire?
Philip Metres writes in “Devotional (after a Muslim Prayer)”: “…light the dull swords of my ribs,/ The thick fist within, light the blood-hot rooms/ Pulsing there, light the gates when they swing wide/ To the stranger…”
For this folio, I seek that pulse. I invite poems both nourished and troubled by the idea of devotion.
Poet Lore pays contributors $50 per published poem. Contributors also receive one copy of their issue, plus a copy of the following printed issue of Poet Lore.

You may submit up to 3 poems (maximum of 8 pages). If you currently have an open submission in our general submission queue, you are welcome to submit a separate submission to this themed call.

Submissions for this themed call will be open November 1 through November 16 via Submittable (linked below).

Submissions should be typed in a serif font (Times New Roman, Garamond, etc.), 12pt font, and include a cover letter with the poet’s name, contact information, and titles of the poems.

  • Include all poems in 1 single document and please only submit once per submission call.
  • Include the titles of all poems in your cover letter (bullet points or numbers are easiest).
  • We accept simultaneous submissions, however, let us know in your cover letter if poems are simultaneously submitted, and please inform us immediately if a poem is accepted elsewhere.
  • We do not accept work that has been previously published. This includes on personal blogs and social media.
  • Upon acceptance, we ask for first serial rights, with rights reverting back to the author upon publication.

We are committed to diversity and inclusivity and highly encourage submissions from marginalized voices. We do not tolerate racism, bigotry, misogyny, homophobia, transphobia, Islamophobia, xenophobia, anti-Semitism, ableism, or any work that promotes harmful stereotypes and viewpoints.
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Patrycja Humienik is the author of We Contain Landscapes (Tin House, 2025), selected as a New York Public Library Best New Poetry Book. An editor and teaching artist, Patrycja has developed writing and movement workshops for Brooklyn Poets, Arts+Literature Laboratory, The Seventh Wave, Northwest Film Forum, Henry Art Gallery, Poets House, and in prisons. Her work can be found in The New Yorker, Gulf Coast, West Branch, Poetry Daily, Poetry Society of America, The Slowdown Show, and elsewhere.