Hare's Paw Literary Journal positions itself as a venue for poetry that resists the merely pleasant. Its stated editorial appetite runs from the darkest fantasy to the most unabashed love poem, with a declared interest in work that inspires, challenges, or even repels. That triangulation—inspiration, challenge, repulsion—signals a curatorial temperament drawn to friction rather than polish, to poems that risk alienating a reader in order to hold them. The journal's name, evoking the rabbit's foot as talisman and the paw as animal trace, suggests a similar investment in the talismanic and the feral over the domesticated. The call is open internationally to any poet writing in English; poems in other languages are acceptable provided the majority of the text is in English. Submissions are capped at three poems per poet, and previously published work is excluded. Simultaneous submissions are permitted, with the courtesy of notification if a poem is accepted elsewhere. A reading fee of $5.00 USD applies. The journal operates online and remotely, with no geographic restriction on contributors. What the journal offers is publication and editorial attention rather than a prize or stipend; there is no cash award attached to this call. The curatorial vision is legible in the description itself: experimental, fresh, well written, and unafraid of the reader's discomfort. Poets whose work tends toward the safe, the workshop-neutral, or the merely competent are unlikely to find their footing here. The journal is looking for the poem that leaves a mark.