The “Unchain My Anti-Racism”
Call for Submissions
Launching 1/01/2025 at The Skinny Poetry Journal:
Racism, fascism, genocide, and race-based misogyny are deeply interconnected. These ideologies often share common roots, used to justify systemic violence and oppression. The results of America’s 2024 election make clear the tragic allegiance of significant segments of our population to these destructive forces.
In light of this, and in keeping with TSPJ’s ongoing commitment to fight for justice, we welcome finely crafted poems that address the issue of mitigating social injustice in the United States. Please submit no more than five poems, either in English or Spanish, to theskinnypoetryjournal@gmail.com on or after January 1st, 2025, for publishing consideration. NOTE: TSPJ will be on hiatus from 10/31/2024 until 1/1/2025
(Photo: Truth Thomas © 2024)
“This is precisely the time when artists go to work. There is no time for despair, no place for self-pity, no need for silence, no room for fear. We speak, we write, we do language. That is how civilizations heal. I know the world is bruised and bleeding, and though it is important not to ignore its pain, it is also critical to refuse to succumb to its malevolence. Like failure, chaos contains information that can lead to knowledge—even wisdom. Like art.” - Toni Morrison
(Photo: Truth Thomas © 2024)
General Submissions:
The Skinny Poetry Journal (TSPJ) is also calling for poems, Skinnys or otherwise, that honor the great electric slide and dance of friction that is life--especially poems that reverence the vital living pulse of all people--all colors, all Latinx familia, all English flowered furious fam--all LBGQT+ pens, BIPOC notepads, all faiths--or lack thereof--all politics, all homo sapiens hooked on the composition of finely-crafted work imbued with unapologetic authenticity. Up to five poems can be submitted for publishing consideration by emailing them to our editorial team at theskinnypoetryjournal@gmail.com, attached as a single .doc, .docx, .rtf, .pdf or .txt file.
Submit to: theskinnypoetryjournal@gmail.com
This call is open-ended.