Clockhouse — V14 Poetry

Overview
Clockhouse invites poets to submit work for its V14 poetry reading period. The magazine's stated scope is deliberately capacious: it welcomes both traditional and experimental styles, and explicitly includes prose poetry within its purview. This is not a call organized around a single aesthetic doctrine or theme; the editors' criteria appear to be quality and fit rather than adherence to a school or movement. The practical terms are straightforward and unusually generous. There is no submission fee. Each poet may submit up to three poems of any length during the reading period. The one firm procedural requirement is that each poem be uploaded as a separate submission; the guidelines state plainly that submissions which do not follow this instruction will be discarded unread. That warning should be taken literally, as it concerns the mechanics of review rather than the merit of the work. Because the call is open in form and length, the decisive work falls to the poems themselves and to the care with which they are presented. Poets working in received forms, in free verse, in hybrid or experimental modes, and in prose poetry are all within the stated field. The absence of a fee and the breadth of the invitation suggest an editorial posture oriented toward reading widely rather than gatekeeping by affiliation.