Farming districts, factory villages, ghost towns, bedroom communities, alternative societies, touristic hamlets, and shtetls: Poetry is Dead wants your poems and creative nonfiction on the subject of small town life. It isn’t necessary to have grown up in a small town to have an experience of one. Whether it be a memorable diner or an otherworldly villager—from bizarre rural folklore to little-known sites of phenomenal occurrences—send us your best work from those lesser-known one-horse municipalities.

Guest editors for this issue are Kayla Czaga and Julie Mannell.

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