Interim: A Journal of Poetry & Poetics

Interim: A Journal of Poetry & Poetics A journal of contemporary poetics and poetry Interim is edited by Claudia Keelan and Andrew S. Nicholson.

The journal was founded in Seattle in 1944 by Wilbur Stevens, a contemporary of Theodore Roethke, and has been housed at UNLV since the 1950s. Contributors have included John Ashbery, Robin Bl**er, Robert Creeley, Brenda Hillman, Paul Hoover, Pierre Joris, Nathaniel Mackey, Laura Mullen, Alice Notley, Anne Waldman, Ronaldo Wilson,and William Carlos Williams, among many others.

Interim is open for submission in the following genres and special themed issues: through May 15, 2026Intertidal:...
11/05/2025

Interim is open for submission in the following genres and special themed issues:
through May 15, 2026

Intertidal: An Open Call for Poetry from Singapore, Edited by Daryl Lim Wei Jie
Ends February 9, 2026
Featuring poetry from the thalassocratic island-city-nation of Singapore. Give us poetry from the littoral and the liminal. Give us poetry that stinks of Singapore. Gives us poetry that ignores Singapore. Give hybrid work that mixes and messes. Give us poems with many languages. Give us poems from the borderlands of language. Above all, we’re looking to surprise readers with Singapore’s chimera strangeness, its slipperiness, its chameleon versatility...

intranslatable/untranslatable, Edited by Sada Malumfashi
Ends March 3, 2026
Seeking works that exist within lexical gaps or cultural gaps. With a rising supply of AI-powered translation tools, we are seeking work that revel in the complexity and uniqueness of language, works of poetry, fiction, nonfiction, translation and hybrid works that have a broader sense of storytelling, narrative, poetry and drama than are commonly seen in English.

Visual Edition, edited by Lindsay Loughin
Ends March 3, 2026
Looking for work that not only challenges traditional forms and conventions but eschews them altogether. The weirdest stuff in your oeuvre. Poems that beg us to ask the question: “is this a poem?” From classic “shape-poems” to Douglas Kearney’s “performative typography” to ee cummings’ experiments with typewriters to derek beaulieu’s physical typographic manipulations via the dry-transfer printing method, we want it all and more. Whether your work aims to change the world or is meaninglessly aesthetic, we’d love to take a look. Words optional.

https://www.interimpoetics.org/

Interim call for submissions Visual Edition, edited by Lindsay LoughinFor this issue, we are especially interested in po...
10/18/2025

Interim call for submissions Visual Edition, edited by Lindsay Loughin

For this issue, we are especially interested in poetry that lives predominantly in the realm of the visual and experimental. We are looking for work that not only challenges traditional forms and conventions but eschews them altogether. The weirdest stuff in your oeuvre. Poems that beg us to ask the question: “is this a poem?” From classic “shape-poems” to Douglas Kearney’s “performative typography” to ee cummings’ experiments with typewriters to derek beaulieu’s physical typographic manipulations via the dry-transfer printing method, we want it all and more. Whether your work aims to change the world or is meaninglessly aesthetic, we’d love to take a look. Words optional.

Submissions from October 2025 until March 6, 2026, or until the issue is filled, whichever comes first. https://www.interimpoetics.org/

Center image: “mirror or how a beard wheres a skirt part one” by the guest editor https://enbylife.net/2024/07/19/mirror-or-how-a-beard-wears-a-skirt-part-one-by-lindsay-loughin/

Interim call for submissions intranslatable/untranslatable, Edited by Sada MalumfashiThink of Gayatri Spivak’s ‘deconstr...
10/18/2025

Interim call for submissions intranslatable/untranslatable, Edited by Sada Malumfashi

Think of Gayatri Spivak’s ‘deconstruction’ as a way “to show the text what it does not know.”

Think of Pierre Menard, from the short story by Jorge Luis Borges, who tried to write a book that would be word for word the same as Don Quixote. Once he succeeded, the result was a different book, despite every word being exactly the same.

We seek works that exist within lexical gaps or cultural gaps. With a rising supply of AI-powered translation tools, we are seeking work that revel in the complexity and uniqueness of language, works of poetry, fiction, nonfiction, translation and hybrid works that have a broader sense of storytelling, narrative, poetry and drama than are commonly seen in English

We are open to a broad interpretation of this theme and we want to be surprised! Submit now through March 3, 2026. https://www.interimpoetics.org/

Catch us at Booth 6, near the main entrance!
10/17/2025

Catch us at Booth 6, near the main entrance!

Cover reveal! Our print issue vol. 40.5-41.5 is now at the printer’s.The cover image is “19” by Jennifer S. Lange.Our si...
10/09/2025

Cover reveal! Our print issue vol. 40.5-41.5 is now at the printer’s.

The cover image is “19” by Jennifer S. Lange.

Our sincere gratitude to the UNLV English Department at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas and the Beverly Rogers, Carol C. Harter Black Mountain Institute for their continued support.

https://www.interimpoetics.org/

Intertidal: An Open Call for Poetry from SingaporeEnds on Mon, Feb 9, 2026 11:59 PMFor this special edition of Interim P...
10/09/2025

Intertidal: An Open Call for Poetry from Singapore

Ends on Mon, Feb 9, 2026 11:59 PM

For this special edition of Interim Poetics, we are looking to feature poetry from the thalassocratic island-city-nation of Singapore. Give us poetry from the littoral and the liminal. Give us poetry that stinks of Singapore. Gives us poetry that ignores Singapore. Give hybrid work that mixes and messes. Give us poems with many languages. Give us poems from the borderlands of language.

Above all, we’re looking to surprise readers with Singapore’s chimera strangeness, its slipperiness, its chameleon versatility. We’re particularly interested in work that plays with language, that is multilingual and translingual, though we regret to say we’re unable to accept work that is entirely in a language that is not English, unless a translation is provided.

Writers do not have to be Singaporean or based in Singapore to be accepted, but should have a meaningful connection with Singapore. We’re very accepting in terms of form, and are open to consider things that smell like poetry.

https://www.interimpoetics.org/

Submissions are welcome from September 1 through May 15. Now accepting poetry, essay, translation and hybrid submissions...
09/19/2025

Submissions are welcome from September 1 through May 15. Now accepting poetry, essay, translation and hybrid submissions. See genre guidelines for details. We look forward to spending time with your work!

Issues are published quarterly online and annually in print. Interim was founded by poet Wilber Stevens in 1944 and is housed at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.
https://www.interimpoetics.org/

Now open! Test Site Poetry Series 2025Ends on Thu, Jan 15, 2026 11:59 PMThe Test Site Poetry Series is open to all write...
09/18/2025

Now open! Test Site Poetry Series 2025
Ends on Thu, Jan 15, 2026 11:59 PM

The Test Site Poetry Series is open to all writers who are seeking to place an unpublished manuscript. All submissions must be at least 48 pages. We will consider “New & Selected” or “Collected” manuscripts including work from previously published books. Interim: A Journal of Poetry and Poetics runs the annual Test Site Poetry Series contest. Each year, two books are chosen... Learn more at https://www.interimpoetics.org/ to submit.

Congratulations, award winners! Announcing 2024 Test Site Poetry Series winner Lindsey Warren’s “Saint October” and Coli...
07/08/2025

Congratulations, award winners! Announcing 2024 Test Site Poetry Series winner Lindsey Warren’s “Saint October” and Colin Drohan’s “It’s Late,” recipient of the 2024 Betsy Joiner Flanagan Award in Poetry. Titles will be published in 2025 by the University of Nevada Press, and winners will both receive $1,000 upon publication.

Meet the Staff: Claudia KeelanEditorPoet, librettist, translator, and essayist Claudia Keelan published New and Selected...
05/16/2025

Meet the Staff: Claudia Keelan
Editor

Poet, librettist, translator, and essayist Claudia Keelan published New and Selected Poems: We Step into the Sea (Barrow Street) in the spring of 2018, as well as a book of essays Ecstatic Émigré: An Ethics of Practice in the Poets on Poetry Series from the University of Michigan Press. Her honors include the Beatrice Hawley Award from Alice James Books for Utopic and the Jerome Shestack Prize from American Poetry Review. She is a Barrick Distinguished Scholar and Professor of English at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.

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