Submissions Are Open!

The Chaos Section Poetry Project is now accepting poems for our next collection.

Theme: Immigration Enforcement / Immigration Enforcement Brutality
Deadline: May 2026 (or when we have enough submissions)
Publication: Fall 2026

For our next collection, the theme is Immigration Enforcement – which will absolutely include poetry addressing brutality under the Trump administration. We have seen Immigration and Customs Enforcement brutality in many forms and in many places. This is often directed toward immigrants, those who simply have skin that isn’t white, or anyone daring to take a stand through protest and civil disobedience.

Many people have been hurt or killed. We want this collection to honor each of them, even if not specifically named in the publication. We do want to name them as often as possible, however, and we would love to publish immigrant voices in this issue alongside non-immigrants. As a poetry collection, we also want to give a special highlight in this call to fellow poet Renée Nicole Good, who was fatally shot in Minneapolis, Minnesota by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent on January 7, 2026.

Your work might be satirical, grief-filled, meditative, furious, hopeful, or all of these at once. Take the theme and run with it in whatever direction it leads you. If it’s personal, let it be personal. If it’s loud, let it be loud. If it’s experimental or unconventional, bring it. If it surprises us, even better. Above all, if it feels urgent, human, and honest and speaks in some way to Immigration Enforcement under the Trump Administration, we want to read it.

Full details and submission guidelines here: Submissions Page