Rattle has long positioned itself as a magazine attentive to the breadth of American poetry, and its Spring 2027 tribute to Youth Poet Laureates extends that attention to a cohort that has grown, over the past fifteen years, from a scattering of local programs into a national network of more than seventy partner cities, states, and counties. The call is not for a survey or a sociological report but for poems themselves—previously uncurated work that, taken together, will register how this generation is writing and shaping contemporary poetry. The magazine's decision to reserve an entire issue feature for these poets is an institutional gesture of recognition: it treats the laureate title not as a credential but as a vantage point. What the magazine offers is publication in a prominent national poetry journal, with the accompanying contributor notes section that Rattle maintains in lieu of essays. Contributors are asked to identify the laureate program they served, to describe their experience within it, and to reflect on how that experience inflects their approach to poetry. This is a modest but meaningful form of context: it allows each poet to situate their work within the specific civic and institutional conditions that produced it, without requiring the work to explain itself. The curatorial vision here is deliberately open. Poems may be of any length or subject; the only constraint is that they be previously uncurated and that they be submitted together—up to four poems, or four pages of very short poems, in a single file or up to four files. There is no fee. The deadline is October 16, 2026. What the editors appear to be seeking is not a thematic through-line but a collective portrait: a body of work that demonstrates the range, ambition, and formal intelligence of poets who have held this title at the national, state, city, county, or local district level.