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Coming September 2026: Selected by Terrance Hayes as Winner of the 2025 Changes Book Prize, 𝙬𝙞𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙣-𝙜𝙧𝙤𝙪𝙥 𝙫𝙖𝙧𝙞𝙖𝙣𝙘𝙚 is available for pre-order now through the link in bio 🔗 Leslie McIntosh’s brilliant debut pushes beyond the limitations of identity politics in pursuit of a “me that is me everywhere.” Through archival fabulation, data theory, diagrams, and epistles, McIntosh weaves a kaleidoscopic lyric that probes the terrains of Black identity and history, invoking a multidisciplinary network of muses along the way, including Bayard Rustin, Phillis Wheatley Peters, and Charles Gaines. With tenderness and rigor, these poems insist on the multiplicity of the self and the possibilities of language to hold it.

Changes Review Issue 12 is live on our website now! There are also a few copies of the print issue left, but they’re almost gone… Find both via the links in bio 🔗

Changes is thrilled to announce our first general open reading period! We are seeking full-length manuscripts of original poetry, poetry in translation, and proposals for archival projects. No limitations on number of books previously published or residency. Submit between April 1–15 via Submittable: /submit. See below for more details. We look forward to reading your work! ▪️ ▪️ ▪️ Submission Guidelines: 1. All original poetry manuscripts must be paginated, and must be a minimum of 48 pages. 2. Translations must also be paginated but may be under the minimum page count, especially if they are still in progress. 3. Proposals for archival projects must be at least one page in length, and must include the following: (a) a description of your subject (b) your bio (c) your research plan (where will the research take place, for how long) (d) whether or not you have been in touch with rights holders, estates, archives, etc, (e) why your proposal is significant, timely, or necessary. Projects must be related to the work of poets, poetry communities, or the history, circulation, and study of poetry. They may, for example, collect an individual poet’s work produced during a certain period or compile poems produced by a collective, though we are open to a variety of scopes and focal points that remain related to poetry. 4. Upload your submission as a .doc, .docx, or .pdf file. For manuscripts, include a title page with the title of the manuscript and a table of contents. 5. You may simultaneously submit your manuscript elsewhere, but please notify us immediately if it is accepted for publication. 6. You may submit multiple entries only if each falls into a different submission category. For example, you may submit one translation, one archival proposal, and one manuscript of original poetry—but not multiple manuscripts of original poetry. Please respect our time and capacity as a small press.

Subscribe to the print issue of Changes Review through the link in bio! In this issue of the Changes Review, eight translators present energetic and innovative renderings of global poetry from across millennia. In our particular present, difference is oppressed, monitored, or expropriated for gain, but translation allows our language to be infected and altered by what exists beyond it. These poems will, at the very least, rattle a reader awake: they probe and disrupt the often lulling landscape of American poetry. Featuring: PURL, tr. Bevin O’Connor PSALMS, tr. Sam Bailey, Emma De Lisle, Talin Tahajian Marina Arzola Porcell, tr. Alejandra (Ale) Quintana Arocho Christophe Tarkos, tr. Aiden Farrell Hwang Byeong-seung, tr. Min Ji Choi Friederike Mayröcker, tr. Noah Loveless

P.E.A.C.E. by Chariot Wish is out today! Purchase via link in bio. “Nakedness has no limit in Chariot Wish’s poetry. What do we find in wounds and holes? Liberation? Redemption? A heedless sadness? Something beyond? We go inside the body and the experience to something raw—air, hunger, history—what glows beneath.”—ROBERT GLÜCK “P.E.A.C.E. is an offering. In it is an alchemy: life turned to art, art turned back into a way to keep living.”—RACHEL RABBIT WHITE From the rubble of Uber Eats, Beyond Meat, and collapsing cities, Chariot Wish’s debut P.E.A.C.E. incants a radiant, visionary, and irreverent poetics of queer devotion. A lapidary for the end of one world, Wish’s ecstatic, embodied poems are pierced with holes, drenched in fluids, and alive with longing—for sex, for love, for a new world order. Channeling interlocutors like Simone Weil, Pier Paolo Pasolini, and Robert Glück, Wish blends Christian mysticism with a punk lineage of queer transgression, mending an urgent through-way between sacred and profane. What emerges is a text that is worshipful in the way only prayer and erotica can be. In P.E.A.C.E. the poem becomes a site of raw contact, where language touches flesh and readers encounter a world worth desiring, even in its ruin. CHARIOT WISH (@pepperm1ntp1g ) is a poet living in New York. They are associate editor at Wonder Books and online editor of Amygdala Journal. Book design by @vancewellenstein Distributed by @asterism_books (US) and @antennebooks (EU/UK)

With gratitude to all who submitted, we’re delighted to announce that the fifth annual Changes Book Prize has been awarded to Bo Hwang for her manuscript Calypso, selected by Simone White and slated for publication in spring 2027. BO HWANG is an artist and writer working with poetry and movement. Recent works include abalone, a performance, object, and chapbook (Counterpath) and yearly in old pool, an artist book (Sister C Press). Bo has taught movement workshops at The Poetry Project and The Jack Kerouac School, and performed at Bushel Collective, SITE Santa Fe, Desert Mystery Center, Leon Gallery, among others.  We received nearly 1,200 submissions to this year’s competition and were amazed at the variety and caliber of the manuscripts we read. Among them were many more books deserving of recognition than we can name. We are grateful to have spent time with so many vibrant poems. Please join us in congratulating this year’s prize winner @bohwang__ ! 💌

See you in Baltimore! 🫂

Only one week left to submit to this year’s Changes Book Prize, awarding $10k and publication for a first or second book of poems. This year’s winning manuscript will be selected by Simone White. No submission fee, as always. Guidelines and instructions for sending us your work at link in bio. We can’t wait to start reading !

P.E.A.C.E. is coming! From the rubble of Uber Eats, Beyond Meat, and collapsing cities, Chariot Wish’s debut incants a radiant and visionary poetics of queer devotion. A lapidary for the end of one world, Wish’s ecstatic, embodied poems are pierced with holes, drenched in fluids, and alive with longing—for sex, for love, for a new world order. Channeling interlocutors like Simone Weil, Pier Paolo Pasolini, and Robert Glück, Wish blends Christian mysticism with a punk lineage of queer transgression, mending an urgent through-way between sacred and profane. What emerges is a text that is worshipful in the way only prayer and erotica can be. In P.E.A.C.E. the poem becomes a site of raw contact, where language touches flesh and readers encounter a world worth desiring, even in its ruin. Publication date: March 2026. Available for preorder now 😌 Cover by the brilliant @vancewellenstein

You’re invited to the launch of Ashley D Escobar’s fabulous GLIB, winner of the 2024 Changes Book Prize selected by Eileen Myles. This book cracks like a whip. Come hear it - Wednesday, May 14 at Anthology Film Archive @anthologyfilmarchives . With readings by Ashley D Escobar @quinoacowboys , Eileen Myles @eileen.myles , Edwin Torres @brainlingo_ , Aristilde Kirby @aristilding , and Matt Proctor @comfortartaud . See you there!

Just confirming we will be bringing our entire family to the function 🫡 See you at Nico’s @nicos.wines (3111 Glendale Blvd, LA) Friday March 28 @ 6pm for a very special @awpwriter offsite reading featuring: @mannheimerup @theabsentvisiblebody @elmdenial @inasickandtwistedway @quinoacowboys @zhitzig @jimmmjiminie @lauranewbern @mohammedsaniasiddig

Available for preorder now 👽 Ashley D. Escobar botanizes the parking lots of Bob’s Big Boy, Cumbies, and Brick Oven Pizza, mining limestone quarries and plastic factories for material for her sparkling, knowing, and fast-paced debut. GLIB is flush with characters and cultural touchstones, other poets, novelists, musicians, directors. “They are very crowded poems, there’s lots of stuff but I don’t get full,”  Eileen Myles writes in their preface. Not sardonic, not moralizing, never jaded or didactic, sometimes tender, sometimes cutting, not indifferent but also not taking it personally, Escobar’s poems proceed by marking—usually without further remark, never forcing an insight or observation, just pointing out, glibly—the myriad contradictions, miracles, incoherences, and indignities that make up their world. And still, the nervy syntax and insouciant attitude give way to occasions of pure equipoise, as in the final moments of an eight-line poem that ends, simply, perfectly, “I love being alive with you.” “The world we write is the world we live in,” Escobar tells us. There is enough world in these poems that it hardly seems a stretch. Ships May 1, 2025 ASHLEY D. ESCOBAR is a writer and filmmaker from San Francisco, residing in New York City. Her first poetry chapbook, SOMETIMES, came out with Invisible Hand Press in 2021. She holds an MFA in Fiction from Columbia University and is the co-editor of Wind-up Mice. Her words have appeared in the Brooklyn Rail, the London Magazine, Hobart, and elsewhere. GLIB is her first book. 📕 cover design by @vancewellenstein