Cruel Garters

Cruel Garters is a literary journal founded on the principle that poetry should be as immediate and unsettling as a misstep. Since its inception, it has operated as a lean, web-based publication, releasing issues that are as much curated provocations as they are collections of verse. The journal's ethos is rooted in a commitment to the raw, the strange, and the unadorned, favoring work that resists easy consumption and instead lingers like a splinter. Its mission is to provide a platform for voices that might otherwise be drowned out by more polished, conventional outlets, and to foster a community of readers and writers who value the visceral over the merely virtuosic.