Rattle: “Ghazal” Issue
Deadline January 15 (must be received by this date). Literary journal Rattle: Poetry for the 21st Century seeks unpublished poems in the ghazal form for their Summer 2024 issue. Developed by medieval Persian poets and popularized in English by such authors as Agha Shahid Ali, the ghazal is a sequence of couplets in which each couplet ends on the same word or phrase, and is preceded by the couplet's rhyming word. Send 1-4 poems and a contributor's note about what the form means to you.
Source: https://rattle.submittable.com/submit/264916/tribute-to-the-ghazal
Published: June 17, 2023