Surreal, dark, contemplative, and the #1 poet-forward journal anywhere. Come and see.

Ruminous is a dual online/print publication of new formalist and experimental poetry which welcomes all authors, …and especially those who can bring us what we want: 
 
We want poems transcribed in the stillness of nature and thought, where reality has yet to take shape. We want the strange and arcane truths divulged in dreams. We want your wonder and your fear. And we want to embrace the terror and fragility of an infinite universe, looking back at itself.

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Ruminous

We are looking for verse which is surreal, dark, or contemplative. And we place a high value on form. <div><br></div><div><div></div><div>Though, we also welcome less traditional implementations of rhyme and meter, and ask further: what does ‘Ruminous’ mean to you?</div><div><br></div><div></div><div></div><div>Send us your best.</div></div>

A Blue Moon Event

Submissions will open for 3 days on the Solar Eclipse, 12AUG26.

Totality

Submissions will open for <b>7 days</b> on the Lunar Eclipse, 27AUG26 at 12AM Central Time.<div><br></div><div>There will be blood.</div>

Blood Moon Ramble

Submissions will open for <b>30 days</b> on the Sanguine Moon, 25OCT26 at 12AM Central Time.

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