Shot Glass Journal occupies a specific and demanding corner of the literary landscape: the short poem. Published by Muse-Pie Press, the journal is devoted exclusively to poetry of sixteen lines or less, encompassing free verse, formal verse, and prose poetry (the latter capped at ten lines). This is not a venue for the sprawling or the diffuse; it is a journal built around compression, where the line is treated as a unit of consequence and every word must justify its presence. The constraint is the curatorial premise, and submissions are read against it. The journal operates on a rolling calendar. Submissions are accepted year-round, but reading cycles close on the first of the months in which issues appear—January, May, and September. Because each issue features a limited selection of poets, the editorial response may be withheld until just prior to posting. This is a slow-reading journal, not a rapid-response one, and the timeline reflects an editorial process that weighs each poem rather than processing it. There is no submission fee. Poets may submit no more than five poems per reading period, and the journal asks explicitly for your best work rather than a broad sampling. All poems must be original and unpublished; Muse-Pie Press considers work posted on a blog, website, social-networking site, or another online journal to be previously published, and such work is ineligible. The journal's aesthetic commitment is to the short form as a serious discipline—not as an exercise, but as a complete articulation.