We’re seeking poetry about touch and isolation, trans and queer embodiment, fat liberation, chronic illness and disability, brutality, sensuality, and other meditations on the bones and muscles you inhabit every day. What words live in the relationship between your body and other bodies? Between your body and the land beneath it? Explore what it means to feel empowered and grounded in your body—and what it means to feel betrayed by it. Have you ever lost your body to dissociation? Or perhaps to transcendence? The body is a site of self-love, self-hate, and body neutrality alike: accepting loving odes, body horror, and everything in between.

Edited by Nara Monteiro, Lena Belova, Eleni Vlahiotis, and Sadie Graham

Before submitting, please read about us to see if your work fits within Room’s mandate, then refer to our submission guidelines.

Submission period: November 15 2023–Jan 5 2024

Printed & in circulation: September 2024