delicate emissions poetry zine is a quarterly, brochure-sized zine that publishes poems of fifteen or fewer lines. We’re queer-run, anti-racist, pro-trans, and pro-liberation in our philosophy; though our poems aren’t necessarily explicitly about those ideas, they definitely embrace them.
We’re run by one person, our founder Dusti RW Levy, who is also a full-time graduate student and teaching assistant. Our roots are in the Maple Leaf neighborhood of Seattle, Washington, but we’re been around a bit. Currently, delicate emissions is edited, managed, and hand-built by our founder & editor in Lake Charles, Louisiana.
In 2025, we moved to accepting submissions that may have been self-published by a poet on their own social media sites. This is an effort to embrace the new realities of publishing, and to push back against publications who would turn their nose up at any kind of self-publishing while also refusing to accept a submission that a poet had published on their own social media accounts or blog. We’re proud to feature work by established poets as well as those who are new to publication.
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