Laurel Moon operates as a literary magazine with a specific and deliberate scope: it publishes the work of undergraduate writers currently enrolled in institutions across the United States. This is not a general-interest journal, nor is it a contest with a cash prize or a residency attached. It is a reading period, a curatorial gesture toward a defined constituency—students who are, by definition, in the early stages of their writing lives and who may not yet have access to the broader literary marketplace. The magazine's remit is poetry, and its geographic and institutional boundary is the United States. There is no submission fee, which is a meaningful detail: it signals that the editors are not gatekeeping by economic means, and it places the journal in the tradition of university-affiliated or student-centered publications that treat the reading period as a service to emerging writers rather than a revenue stream. The absence of a prize does not diminish the value of publication here; it clarifies that the reward is editorial selection itself—placement in a magazine that has chosen to read undergraduate work seriously. For the poet, the opportunity is straightforward: a no-fee submission to a magazine whose editorial identity is built around undergraduate writing. The curatorial vision is implicit in the scope. Laurel Moon is not looking for polished, MFA-workshop-style poems by writers with book contracts. It is looking for poems by undergraduates—which means the editors are likely attuned to voice, risk, and the particular energies of writers still forming their practice. The magazine's online and remote nature means there is no geographic constraint beyond the undergraduate enrollment requirement, and no cost to submit.