better than possums. the trees have eyes.


Houston-built and bred, the Literary Forest Poetry Magazine was founded by a high schooler with a mission in 2019. We've grown to encompass hundreds of largely experimental poets in the five issues since, and we'd love to include you too. Based initially out of the Houston punk and poetry scene, LFPM is now transient, ever-present, ephemeral, in your walls, etc. The trees have eyes.

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The Literary Forest Poetry Magazine

Our submission window is open year round and to anyone. Click here to submit. We release one issue every year, in November. Please note that it may take us some time to respond to all submissions. We are open to the experimental, the weird, the traditional, and everything in between. Please see below for our guidelines.<div>Please note that we are currently a poetry-only publication. While this may change in the future as we expand, we are not currently accepting unsolicited visual art or other forms of writing, and we’re very sorry for any inconvenience that that may cause. All work submitted must be safe for work, including no sexual content and no excessive gore or mentions of gratuitous violence.</div><div>LFPM has no length or style requirements, but please keep in mind that we are largely an experimental poetry magazine, and so our tastes often lean towards the weird and unconventional.</div><div>No racism, homophobia, sexism, transphobia, xenophobia, islamophobia, antisemitism, etc. (bigotry) is allowed. LFPM stands unequivocally in support of a free Palestine and a free Ukraine, and decisions will reflect this. No one is free until we are all free, and no one is free on stolen land. LFPM acknowledges that it is operated on unceded Nipmuc and Karankawa land, and acknowledges the deep and horrific colonial history that it unfortunately benefits from as an arts institution within the United States.</div>

Poetry for the forest

The Evelyn Hart Award for an Outstanding Poem is Literary Forest’s inaugural poetry award, to be awarded to an outstanding experimental poet that pushes the boundaries of what writing is. The deadline to enter is August 31.<div>This award carries a cash prize of $75 for the winner and $25 for a runner-up. Both poems will be published in the November 2026 issue of Literary Forest. The competition is $5 to submit to, collected upon submission.</div><div><br></div><div>We look for the weird, the normal, the unsettling, the resettling, and everything in between. Submit your best, your worst, your most cherished, we will read it all.</div>

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