ABOUT

 

Muzzle seeks to promote writing of revolution and revelation. While all of our editors have their own likes and dislikes, our collective goal is not to showcase one particular aesthetic, but rather to press our ears against the rustling beyond. With healthy doses of both reverence and mischievousness toward literary minds that have come before us, we are obsessed with asking what beauty can and will be. Looking beyond Ezra Pound’s slogan of “Make it new,” we are looking for people who are making the new. We are looking beyond because we need something new. Institutionalized hate, discrimination, exploitation, rape, violence, tangible and intangible theft, and other abuses of power are older than this country. We are seeking new answers to old questions and old answers to new questions. We are seeking something we don’t know how to name yet. As with a good love, we hope we will sense it at first handshake.

Muzzle has the distinct honor of being the only online literary magazine named as one of the best new magazines of 2010 by Library Journal in “LJ Best New Magazines of 2010: Ten new periodicals rise to the top.” Poems from Muzzle have been selected for Best American Poetry, The Pushcart Prize, Best of the Net, and Verse Daily. Muzzle takes submissions year round for poetry and occasionally has special themed issues.  Click here for more information on how to submit. We recently shifted to publishing semiannually: in June and December.  

ISSN 2157-8079​

 

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MASTHEAD

Editor-in-Chief and Founder
Stevie Edwards

Poetry Editors
Cam Awkward-Rich
Benjamin Clark
Gala Mukomolova
Hieu Minh Nguyen
Raena Shirali
Hanif Willis-Abdurraqib

Senior Poetry Readers
Derrick Carr
K. T. Landon
Sarah Sgro

Poetry Readers
George Abraham
Kemi Alabi 
Shonté Daniels
Alana Folsom 
Aidan Forster 
Stephanie Horvath 
Brionne Janae
Kamal E. Kimball 
Brittany Rogers 
Julio Cesar Villegas 
Ellie White
Jameka Williams

Book Reviewers
C. Bain
Claudia Cortese
Irène Mathieu
Willy Palomo

Social Media Editor:
Ellie White
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Copy Editors
George Abraham
Shonté Daniels

(click here for editor bios)