Seneca Review has long been a venue where poetry is treated as a serious art, not merely a submission category. The journal's editorial lineage is rooted in a commitment to lyrical precision, intellectual rigor, and an openness to formal and linguistic risk. For poets, publication in Seneca Review signals an engagement with a readership that values craft and contemplation over trend. This call is for a general reading period, not a contest; there is no prize attached, only the possibility of appearing in a journal whose pages have historically been a home for work that resists easy categorization. The submission parameters are deliberately simple: 3–5 poems, uploaded as one file. This structure asks the poet to present a cohesive body of work, a small suite that can stand as a representative gesture. The $3.00 fee is a modest administrative cost, common among literary magazines, and does not influence editorial decisions. The journal does not specify thematic constraints, which is itself a curatorial statement: the editors are looking for poems that earn their place through attention to language, image, and thought, regardless of subject matter. What artists receive is publication in a respected journal with a national distribution and a history of featuring both emerging and established voices. There is no monetary award, no residency, no exhibition. The reward is the work itself, placed alongside other poems selected with a similar standard of care. For poets, this is an opportunity to enter a conversation that has been ongoing for decades, one that values the slow, deliberate act of reading and rereading.