For three decades, Moonstone Arts Center has convened Poetry Ink as an annual gathering of one hundred poets reading in alphabetical order—a structure that deliberately levels the field between the published and the unpublished, the academic and the street poet. The 31st edition continues this tradition, selecting work for an anthology and for a live reading at the Philadelphia Free Library's Parkway Center on November 14 at 2 p.m., with a virtual reading to be announced. The call is capacious in form: sonnet, villanelle, haiku, ekphrastic, concrete, epitaph, elegy, epigram, limerick, ballad, ode, and free verse are all named as welcome. The constraints are precise and worth respecting. Each poet may submit exactly one poem, limited to 35 lines total. Line count includes spaces between stanzas—five couplets equal fourteen lines—and numbers or section breaks count as lines. An epigraph adds three lines. Any line exceeding 60 characters, including spaces, is counted accordingly. These rules are not incidental; they shape what the anthology can hold and how the reading is paced. What the opportunity offers is publication in the 31st Poetry Ink anthology and the chance to read before a live audience in Philadelphia, with a parallel virtual reading still to be determined. There is no cash prize and no stated honorarium. The $5 fee is modest but real, and the deadline is October 12, 2026. The curatorial vision is plural rather than prescriptive: the anthology is built to accommodate a wide range of poetic modes, and the alphabetical reading order reinforces the egalitarian premise. Poets should approach this as a serious anthology submission with strict formal limits, not as an open mic.