Rust & Moth’s Spring 2024 issue is now available in print! These poems squint and strain through mist, through migraines, through floorboards, through closed blinds, blizzards, and grief unseen. What strange and luminescent creatures await us in the fog?

With new poetry from Nathan Manley, Krysten Hill, Allison Blevins, Lizzy Ke Polishan, Kylan Tatum, Stephen May, Rishi Janakiraman, Carson Wolfe, John Paul Caponigro, Tess Liegeois, Connor Watkins-Xu, Emma Harrington, Aaron Sandberg, Stefanie Leigh, Michelle Donahue, William Palmer, Suzanne Langlois, Jennifer Skogen, Aiman Tahir Khan, Ron Stottlemyer, Rosie Hong, Hannah L.D., Laura Tanenbaum, Susanna Stephens, Jackie Craven, Jennifer L Freed, Tanima, Richard Gallagher, Dilys Wyndham Thomas, Chris Talbott, Jennifer Fischer Davis, Karen McAferty Morris, Gary McDowell, and John Walser.

Find these and other poems on Bluesky. Also, ePub readers! We’re excited to announce the unveiling of our new free ePub format, which will accompany every print release going forward. Spring 2024 awaits you on Kindle and other e-readers.

Rust & Moth’s Winter 2023 issue is now available in print! These quiet, solstice-dark pieces rumble with buried light. Here lie bodies on fire, faerie ships, and ribs striking flint on steel.

With new poetry from Sarah Carleton, Katy Luxem, Katherine Norton, Avery Yoder-Wells, Nathaniel J Brown, Laurie Koensgen, John L. Stanizzi, Adeline Navarro, Carla Sarett, Anna Elkins, Heather Qin, Ana María Carbonell, Carolyn Williams-Noren, Caleb F. Stocco, Sarah Mills, Faith Allington, Charles Hensler, Ken Craft, Christopher Shipman, Erin Covey-Smith, Frank Paino, Ariana D. Den Bleyker, Raina K. Puels, Suzanne Langlois, Mary Simmons, Johanna DeMay, Christina Kallery, Laurie Klein, and Sascha Cohen.

Find these and other poems at our new home on Bluesky!

The Pushcart Prize honors the best of America’s small presses, and Rust and Moth’s nominations are in the mail! Please enjoy these fantastic pieces from this year’s nominees.

Black paintings, by Lisa Bickmore

Magdalene, by Amy Thatcher

Abecedarian For My Grandmother’s Missing Toe, by Arielle Kaplan

20/20 Lexicon, by Michael Bazzett

Going Home, by Suzanne Langlois

Peeled Apples, by Carly Wheelehan Gelsinger

Rust & Moth’s Winter 2023 issue is live! These quiet, solstice-dark pieces rumble with buried light. Here lie bodies on fire, faerie ships, and ribs striking flint on steel.

Featuring new work from Ariana D. Den Bleyker, Suzanne Langlois, Caleb F. Stocco, Heather Qin, and many others, we’ll be publishing new poems online every week and building toward a finalized print edition this December. Join us online (and on Bluesky) as the issue unfolds!

Rust & Moth’s Autumn 2023 issue is now available in print! This one is a study in long-form — with deeper breaths before each piece, line-lengths that stretch for the horizon, and growing fear for the future and its weather. All of this in the service of an old and glowing collection of orchids, scales, roots, apples, ashes, paper… and feathers.

Rust & Moth’s Summer 2023 issue is now available in print! These pages roam the parchment of the west in search of life-sustaining water. Here you’ll find meditations on regret, the wisdom of desert fathers, and experiments with form, easier to see now that the water is gone.

Rust & Moth’s Spring 2023 issue is now available in print! This is a collection of vertical movement: rain falling, roots seeking rain, pears leaving branches, and feet lifting from the surface of the Earth.

With new poetry from Aliyah Cotton, Jonathan Lenore Kastin, Reyzl Grace, Annie Stenzel, Maria Surricchio, Kelly Gray, John Amen, Michelle Hendrixson-Miller, Jeff Ewing, Melanie McCabe, William G. Gillespie, Mackenzie Duan, Jingyu Li, B. Fulton Jennes, Emily Jaster, Jennessa Hester, Emily Ruth Verona, Lane Henson, Kent Leatham, Luke Johnson, Rashna Wadia, Dagne Forrest, Gus Peterson, Suzanne Langlois, and Daniel Revach.

You can also find full-length poems from the issue at Post, our new social media outlet: post.news/@rustandmoth

The Pushcart Prize honors the best of America’s small presses, and Rust and Moth’s nominations are in the mail! Please enjoy these fantastic pieces from our 2022 nominees.

Tender Is a Weakness I Keep Repeating, by Ann DeVilbiss

Utah, by Adriano Noble

Aubade for the Body (25), by Phoebe Reeves

Shrub, Blackbirds, Silence, by Ernest O. Ògúnyẹmí

Poem that Ends with Garden, by Lauren Elaine Jeter

Domestic, by Lea Page

Rust and Moth’s Autumn 2022 issue is now available in print! This issue is unavoidably present. In the present tense, tense, and a gift by any other name, these poems explore the pain and wonder of being here, now.

The Rust and Moth editors recently learned about some technical issues with our submission form. Our in-house submissions manager incorporates elements of Google technology, and it appears that recent updates on Google’s end temporarily disabled the form. Most form submissions from June 17th — June 30th were auto-discarded; emailed submissions during that time were unaffected.

We’ve now responded with a yes or no to every submission we received in June, so if you’re waiting for a response still, it means that your submission wasn’t received. We apologize for the trouble; we know how much care goes into prepping a submission and the inconvenience isn’t lost on us.

We should have everything up and running just fine by our next open reading window, which opens in September. Thanks for thinking of us, and sorry again for the hassle! We hope to read your work next time around.

Rust + Moth’s Summer 2022 issue is now available in print! This issue is about time – our collaboration with it, its war on us, and what time can do to a country, a language, a family, or a home.

Rust + Moth’s Spring 2022 issue is now available in print! This issue holds predator and prey a page’s length apart. We invite you to crack open the door of spring that same small distance, or at least cup your hands to the door.

With new poetry from Mary Francesca Fontana, Susan Cossette, Leah Claire Kaminski, Ayrton Lopez, David Donna, Konstantinos Patrinos, Kimberly Ann Priest, Rachel Marie Patterson, Theodore Eisenberg, Merna Dyer Skinner, Lucia Owen, Elizabeth Pierson, Ernest O. Ògúnyẹmí, Mo Fowler, Brenda Edgar, Amy Williams, Theresa Burns, Natalie Marino, Angeline Schellenberg, Maggie Greaves, Matthew J. Andrews, Regina Cassese, Lea Page, Diana Whitney, Mia Bell, John L. Stanizzi, William Doreski, Melissa Anne, Michael Quinn, Cameron Morse, Brendan Bense, Sher Ting, Emily Franklin, and Tiel Aisha Ansari.

Rust + Moth’s Winter 2021 issue is now available in print! This crepuscular issue cries out to what we’ve lost over the horizon. Join these talented writers as they sing out the endless year.

With new poetry from Ellen Stone, Kindall Fredricks, Becki Hawkes, Suzanne Langlois, Kristin Camitta Zimet, Calvin Olsen, Samantha Padgett, Melanie McCabe, Jill Kitchen, Richard Lister, Danae Younge, Catherine Ormell, Alex Vigue, Cassy Dorff, Katherine Hagopian Berry, Callie S. Blackstone, Kevin Grauke, Marc Alan Di Martino, Carla Chinski, Jack Rockwell, Laura Reece Hogan, Jed Myers, Elizabeth Steinglass, Shannan Mann, Romana Iorga, Stefanie Kirby, Charles Kell, Alicia Elkort, Melissa Tuckman, Art Nahill, and Gregory Wolff.