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It is our distinct pleasure to announce that we have accepted eight new Poetry Readers to join our team! Please give a warm welcome to: Hajjar Baban, Ai Li Feng, Quinton Okoro, Jaz Sufi, Tariq Thompson, Eleanor Colligan, Anoushka Kumar, and Tyler Raso!  Hajjar Baban is a Pakistan-born Afghan Kurdish poet. Ai Li Feng was born in Jiangxi, although she is currently based out of New England. She reads for Split Lip Magazine and loves black locust trees.  Quinton Okoro is a Black, nonbinary poet from Nigeria, with a BA in Creative Writing from UNC-Chapel Hill. They are a 2024 Djanikian Scholar and the winner of a University & College Poetry Prize from the Academy of American Poets, among other awards. Their poetry is featured in The Adroit Journal, Poets.org, Nimrod International Journal, Shō Poetry Journal, Driftwood Press, and elsewhere.  Jaz Sufi (she/hers) is a mixed race Iranian-American poet and arts educator. Her work has been published or is upcoming in the Adroit Journal, AGNI, Black Warrior Review, Colorado Review, Muzzle, and elsewhere. She is a National Poetry Slam finalist and has received fellowships from Kundiman, the Watering Hole, and New York University, where she received her MFA. She lives between the Bay Area and Brooklyn with her dog, Apollo.  Tariq Thompson is a poet and educator from Memphis, Tennessee. He is the author of the chapbook LONE LILY (Sunset Press, 2021). His poetry has appeared in the American Poetry Review, The Adroit Journal, Sixth Finch, and elsewhere. Thompson was a finalist for a 2023 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Fellowship and was awarded the 2020 Adroit Prize for Poetry. He holds an MFA in poetry from New York University, where he was a Writers in the Public Schools Fellow. Learn more about his work at tariqthompson.com.  Eleanor Colligan is a writer from the Midwest currently based in NYC. She is a 2024 Brooklyn Poets fellow, and a reader for ONLY POEMS and Blue Marble Review. You can find her work in Beaver’s Mag, Rat’s Ass Review, and more. You can find more of her at theestateofeleanorcolligan.hotglue.me.  Anoushka Kumar (she/her) is a student and writer from India, with work forthcoming or published in Poetry Northwest, DIALOGIST, Jet Fuel Review, Ballast Poetry Journal, and elsewhere. She is a poetry reader for Variant Literature and likes wood-panelled flooring and Phoebe Bridgers. Find more of her at anoushkakumar.carrd.co.  Tyler Raso (they/she) is a poet, essayist, and teacher. Their work is featured or forthcoming in Electric Literature, The Offing, Black Warrior Review, DIAGRAM, Salt Hill Journal, Split Lip Magazine, The Journal, and elsewhere. They can be found tweeting @spaghettiutopia. We are looking for a handful of new first round poetry readers to help us keep up with our growing submission pool. Muzzle publishes two online issues a year and uses Submittable to manage submissions. Muzzle is 100% volunteer run. If you are interested in applying to work with our staff, please send a brief cover letter explaining your experience and interest and a 8-page poetry sample to [email protected] by June 10th. Please put "Poetry Reader Application" in the email subject line. It's our goal to never be homogeneous in taste; we are looking for readers who come from a wide variety of backgrounds and aesthetic traditions, though we do prioritize writers with marginalized identities or backgrounds.
The main considerations will be 1) poetry sample 2) reasons for wanting to volunteer with a literary magazine (particularly this one) and 3) literary citizenship. Some familiarity with Submittable is preferred. Having accepted her role as Co-Editor-in-Chief in the summer of 2020, Raena Shirali will be stepping down from Muzzle Magazine; Brittany Rogers will remain on as Editor-in-Chief in her stead. Raena looks forward to Muzzle’s exciting future and is extremely grateful for all she has learned from this role, as well as for the amazing poets she had the opportunity to meet and publish during her time with Muzzle! She will miss the team greatly. We at Muzzle want to thank Raena for her extremely hard work and dedication to the literary community. She will be deeply missed!
It is our distinct pleasure to announce that we have accepted four new Book Reviewers to join our team! We're so excited to welcome to Frances Nan, Noel Quiñones, Deborah D.E.E.P. Mouton, & Benjamin Grimes! It is our distinct pleasure to announce that we have accepted ten(!) New Poetry Readers to join our team! Please give a warm welcome to...*drumroll, please!*: Fatima Jafar, Caely McHale, Jane Morton, Sun Paik, stevie redwood, Miona Short, Yvanna Vien Tica, Samantha Williams, Serrina Zou, & Hafsa Zulfiqar! After serving for Muzzle as Poetry Readers, kiki nicole & Lily Zhou will be stepping into roles as Poetry Editors! Congrats, kiki & Lily!  kiki nicole [they ● them] is a Black, Queer, Agender poet and artist currently based in North Carolina. They have poems published in The Shade Journal, beestung mag, voicemail poems, TWANG Anthology, and more. kiki has been invited to attend retreats and workshops with Pink Door Writing Retreat, The Watering Hole, In Surreal Life, and Winter Tangerine. Find out more at kikinicole.com.  Lily Zhou is an undergrad at Stanford University. Her work appears in Poetry, Best New Poets 2017, Tin House, Sixth Finch, Asian American Writers’ Workshop, and The Adroit Journal. She is based in the San Francisco Bay Area.
After years of writing book reviews for Muzzle Magazine, Claudia Cortese is stepping into a role as our Reviews Editor. Congratulations, Claudia!  Claudia Cortese is a poet, essayist, and fiction writer. Her debut full-length, Wasp Queen (Black Lawrence Press, 2017), won Southern Illinois University’s Devil’s Kitchen Award for Emerging Poetry. Her work has appeared in Bitch Magazine, Black Warrior Review, Crazyhorse, Gulf Coast, and The Offing, among others. Cortese received a 2018 OUTstanding Faculty Ally of the Year certificate from the LGBTQ+ Center at Montclair State University. The daughter of Neapolitan immigrants, Cortese grew up in Ohio and lives in New Jersey. She tweets, mostly about fat liberation and dismantling diet culture, @theclaudster. Brittany Rogers and Raena Shirali, both former poetry editors at Muzzle Magazine, are stepping into new positions as Co-Editors-in-Chief!
We are excited to be adding four new Poetry Readers to our staff! Welcome Stephanie Chang, kiki nicole, Christina D. Rodriguez, and McKenzie Lynn Tozan. We are looking for a handful of new first round poetry readers to help us keep up with our growing submission pool. Muzzle publishes two online issues a year and uses Submittable to manage submissions. Muzzle is 100% volunteer run. If you are interested in applying to work with our staff, please send a brief cover letter explaining your experience and interest and a 10-page poetry sample to [email protected] by August 15th. Please put "Poetry Reader Application" in the email subject line. It's our goal to never be homogeneous in taste; we are looking for readers who come from a wide variety of backgrounds and aesthetic traditions.
The main considerations will be 1) poetry sample 2) reasons for wanting to volunteer with a literary magazine (particularly this one) and 3) literary citizenship. Some familiarity with Submittable is preferred. |
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