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Text & image depository. Digipoetics since 2016.
Editors: Seth Copeland, Caleb Jordan, Amanda Ngoho Reavey
https://petrichormag.com/
(art: Annalynn Hammond; Michael Paulukonis)
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Aaaaand that's a wrap on our submissions portals for 2025. We are simultaneously putting together petrichor 29 (including Pebbles vol. 6) and petrichor 30, our 10th Anniversary issue. Expect cool things in '26. Here's a picture of that boat that was stuck on the sand in Milwaukee, 2/12/25.
A boat frozen in the sand, covered in graffiti.
December 1, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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As it snows in Milwaukee, we're open till November's end for Pebbles vol. 6. Poems of 1-5 lines (from monoku to tanka) and/or visuals (haiga, etc.) are all welcome till Sunday night. Pebbles 6 will be published as part of petrichor 29 in January.

(poems about snow are welcome but not required)
4-panel Peanuts comic by Charles Schulz. A snowman sits under a tree holding a book. Charlie Brown remarks to Linus "Your snowman seems to like to read." Linus replies "Yes, he's very fond of poetry." Looking at the snowman again, Charlie Brown asks "Robert Frost?" As they walk off, Linus responds "You said it...I didn't!"
November 29, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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General Submissions remain closed but we're reopening Pebbles vol. 6 subs till November 30. Send us up to 10 poems, each no more than 5 lines, and/or visuals (haiga, etc.).
Autumn trees with a banner over them reading: "Submissions for Pebbles vol. 6 extended till 11/30. Send up to 10 poems | 1 - 5 lines each
November 18, 2025 at 1:05 AM
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Subs close Saturday night! Here! At petrichor!

Thunder in the night forever.
Two Dudes Pointing meme in front of the petrichor website banner.
November 13, 2025 at 9:57 PM
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petrichor is open for another 2 weeks for general submissions and microwork for Pebbles vol. 6.
A smashed pumpkin in a street with a banner over it reading: "petrichor. Open for general submissions and Pebbles volume 6 till November 15."
November 1, 2025 at 9:15 PM
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Passages, a new asemic series from Annalisa Retico. View all six in the new issue of petrichor.
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Asemic lines of text in three colors on pulpy paper. One of the Passages by Annalisa Retico.
October 7, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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from "Hummingbird, or, In Loving Memory of the Young Woman Whose Life I Took," a powerful tribute from Choiselle Joseph. Read the full poem in the new issue of petrichor.
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You’re in your room again jade seven-string over thigh fingers flying with aban don over fretboards Look at you You’re just like Wes doo doo-doo-doo-doo doodoodoodoo You learnt that from her the drowning out learnt it like the alphabet and walking and curse words Through the locked door your father grows siren-loud You can hear her not talking
October 6, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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petrichor 28 is here and submissions are now open!

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Closeup from the cover art of petrichor number 28, with art my Miles Stimac.
October 1, 2025 at 4:01 AM
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Sneak peak and reminders wachow
Text over four columns of closeup previews from work forthcoming in the new issue by Annalisa Retico, Mike Bagwell, Mark Rutter, and Korey Hurini. Text announcement reads: petrichor no. 28 drops October 1st. petrichor opens for subs October first. Coincidence????
September 25, 2025 at 3:31 AM
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"Hispanic sonnet with bad lyrics from a good song" by Alex Z. Salinas in petrichor 27.
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You make my lonely life a Paradise. You made my life Outside my door. Outside my Door: notion of night, motion Of life tracked by lonely eye: Icy moon. Paradise measured by Distance or rooms? How many Doors open to paradise in life Sized down by lonely death? Is Life less lonely outside my door? Is Paradise more or less you? If Paradise locks death outside then Waste breath like nobody’s business Going out of business. Paradise: A pair of dice.
August 13, 2025 at 2:28 PM
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Our Best of the Net nominees are in!
Best of the Net Nominees for 2026 Meredith MacLeod Davidson — “The Locks” (#26) Peter Burzyński — “Resident Alien / Service-Class Citizen” (#26) Haley Bossé — “Toxic Algae Blooms in the Willamette River” (#26) Lizzy Ke Polishan — “you can’t stop it, baby, just enjoy” (#27) Jennessa Hester — “wilderness survival” (#24) nat raum — “journal (take #27)” (#27)
August 11, 2025 at 6:17 PM
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"When I Met A Man in New Orleans" by Oswaldo Vargas. Read the full poem here.

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I won’t live here long enough to ruin the sidewalks more with him but I still fall for the streetcar cutie. He apologizes for his room. He taped wing after wing to flee Tennessee.
August 4, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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from "5 Collages from Thoreau's Journal" by Jordan C. Dunn, an ecopoetic blend of image and text in the current issue of petrichor
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Photocopied imagery of the woods next to a poem: CROWFOOT BUDS If the genius visits me on a dry rock, dreaming I climb the Cliff tinged with How much eternity -how, perhaps, allI remember this experience that I had long since Pulling up the johnswort on the face of the Cliff, [JAN. 9 1853] I saw to-day the sunset sky in the river, with bluish-green patches or coppery under sides the signs of unceasing growth about the roots, just beneath the ground, - fresh shoots two inches long, white with red leafets, and all the radical part quite green the blossom- bud, The leaves of the crowfoot, also. It affected me, are quite green, and carry I saw the flames in yellow The crowfoot budsforward to spring There it patiently sits, or slumbers, how full deep in the centre pulling it to pieces, cherishing earth, like a fire, I antici-pate nature but I remember how this experience is like, but less than, that I had long since
May 19, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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Submissions for petrichor close Thursday May 15 at 11:59 pm. After that, you'll have to catch us in the fall along with issue 28.
A rock with a large strip of duct tape on it. Reads: submissions close May 15 https://petrichormag.com/submit/
May 12, 2025 at 9:58 PM
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Subs close in a week!
PETERICHOR SUBMISSIONS CLOSE MAY 15 Bordered w/ samples of visual-text work from previous issues, by Serse Luigetti, James Knight, Kai Minosh Pyle, and Nam Hoang Tran
May 9, 2025 at 2:37 AM
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from "(texts from my mother, unread and unwritten)" by Khanh Nguyen. Read the full poem in petrichor 27.
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Did you buy rau quế, rau thơm, ngò gai? Do they even have those herbs in the markets where you are? Are you eating enough fruits and vegetables? What about meat? You need more blood in you, to make your cheeks flush as the petals of the rose bush caging our house: remember when they first bloomed?
May 1, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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Check out new collagework from Serse Luigetti, now in petrichor 28

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Detail from a collage by Serse Luigetti. Several fonts and letterforms from posters and magazine cut up and rearranged in a way that makes them unreadable as text.
April 28, 2025 at 6:33 PM
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from "you can't stop it, baby, just enjoy" by Lizzy Ke Polishan, now in petrichor 27
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the binary between magic and science— you can now swallow a periodic table to take flight. god parts the red sea but forgets to tell you it’s only biodegradable red glitter.
April 15, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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Jennessa Hester (@cherrypoppunk.bsky.social)'s "wilderness survival." If you need your heart torn out on Tuesday with queer poetry about scouting, have we get the poetic claws for you. Read the full poem in the new issue
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i stand frozen beside the master my throat yoked tight within his grasp a firm man’s hand i feel his fingers crawl inside my mouth and slouch down through the blood he fingers the folds and they peel back leading him deeper and deeper down i do not know who dragged us under the water i cannot tell my flesh from his own
April 8, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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Jim Leftwich was always experimenting, always doing weird new things, often in collaboration with heavy friends. His work is everywhere; some of his it, including collabs w/ John M. Bennet, can be found in our 13th issue.

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Collage by Jim Leftwich and John M. Bennett. Faded overlapping pieces of printed text with abstract ink markings.
April 3, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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Carl Sennhenn grew up in Baltimore and taught in Oklahoma for many years. He was the Poet Laureate of Oklahoma 2001-2003. His poem "Losses" appeared in our eleventh issue, Summer 2019. The whole poem can be read here.
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but no need to try to remember turns of honeyed phrase (how bitter their after-taste) when memories troop these days a parade to confirm loss again and again sometimes sharper than before
April 3, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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TBT: petrichor 27, now out, is dedicated to Carl Sennhenn and Jim Leftwich, both recently passed.
Diptych of two poets. The first, Carl Sennhenn, is an older white man, cleanshaven, wearing a blazer and talking at a podium. In the second, Jim Leftwich, an older white man with a goatee, sits outside in the daylight in an open flannel shirt.
April 3, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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Along with petrichor 27 now up, submissions are open for a number of things (Pebbles subs are closed till October).
petrichormag.com/submit/
Detail from a collage by Sarah J. Sloat: a spiral track on a white background, with cutout flowers and figure along it.
April 1, 2025 at 10:40 PM
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petrichor #27 is here, including Pebbles vol. 5 and some great work greater than great great big great great big kaboom pow zowie.
Cover art by Michael Orr.
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Art by Michael Orr. several lines connected to dots like constellations with a large rectangle in the middle of the field of lines. The rectangle contains several intersecting geometric shapes.
April 1, 2025 at 1:19 PM
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petrichor 27, including Pebbles vol. 5, drops April 1st.
General submissions of text, image, etc. will reopen then as well.
Image of the great pyramids with trash in the foreground. Over this, a box reading: "APRIL 1st / Issue 27d drops / + Submissions Open / For Guidelines: petrichormag.com/submit
March 22, 2025 at 9:19 PM