Rattle has long positioned itself as a journal attentive to the plainspoken and the formally varied, and its thematic issues function as concentrated anthologies within the larger publication. For Summer 2027, the editors turn their attention to travel: poems about leaving home for a while and experiencing somewhere else. The scope is deliberately broad—vacations, road trips, flights, train rides, hotels, museums, beaches, guidebooks, wrong turns, unfamiliar meals, and the small disorientations that come with being away from your ordinary life. The framing suggests an editorial interest not in travel as spectacle but in travel as a condition that sharpens attention, making even the most practical details feel strange or memorable. The call is open to poems in any style or length, provided they engage with the experience of travel. Up to four previously uncurated poems may be submitted at the same time, either in a single file or up to four files. There is no submission fee. The journal no longer publishes essays, but it always includes a contributor notes section; for this issue, contributors are asked for a brief note about the trip, place, or travel experience behind the poem. That request is worth taking seriously: it indicates that the editors are reading for poems grounded in a specific, recoverable experience rather than in generalized travel imagery. Because the issue is thematic, the curatorial vision is likely to favor work that treats travel as a perceptual and emotional event—displacement, unfamiliarity, the erosion of routine—rather than as a backdrop for lyric reflection. The instruction to omit names and contact information from the file contents signals a commitment to reading the work on its own terms, without the contextual framing of a bio or publication history. The result is a submission process that rewards the poem itself, not the dossier around it.