Sligo Creek Publishing has issued an open call for a poetry anthology organized around the theme of work. The editors frame the subject capaciously, citing Genesis and Bukowski in the same breath and explicitly extending the definition to include caregiving and parenting alongside wage labor. The anthology seeks poems that address what one does for a living, the conditions of hiring and dismissal, and the physical and psychological toll of labor. The stated preference is for poetry intended to be heard as much as read—work that privileges strong imagery, personal specificity, and emotional stakes over abstraction or argument. The call is open to poems of any length and any style. Previously published work is eligible provided the author retains copyright, with attribution of prior publication requested. Submissions are subject to a $5.00 reading fee. The deadline is November 1, 2026. The editors have not announced payment, contributor copies, or prize structure in the materials provided; poets should weigh the fee against the absence of stated compensation. The curatorial vision is legible in the editors' own language: they ask for the concrete over the general, the personal over the polemical, and they explicitly discourage preaching. This is an anthology that wants the texture of lived experience—the interview, the shift, the body at the end of the day—rendered with craft and without sentimentality. The reference points suggest an editorial sensibility that is democratic in taste but exacting in execution.