Very exciting!

Happy September 1st! We are open for submissions as well ~ for both our “spark to flame” process and/or collaborative poetry. (No rush, though: we close October 15th 🎃)

Issue Four submissions are open now! 🎉

We are excited to announce our Best of the Net 2025 Nominations! Congratulations to @cyvilizations.bsky.social@gretchenfilart.bsky.social@terrilinndavis.bsky.social, Abigail Hora, Jamie Anderson, Jose Jay, Alice Agro-Paulson, and Julio Rainion!

Great news! Our submissions open for issue four in a month (August 15th)! 🎉

Issue Three comes to a meditative end with “In and of this here world” by Philippa Bowe (Flame) and Luca Fois (Spark). What if you were the world? Page 15: www.s2fjournal.com/assets/Issue...

I love the intensity of “August’s heat makes my house splinter” by Luca Fois (Flame) and Nida Mubaraki (Spark). “I sweat /while walking on the yellow blades/ tainted by the gold of our wedding/ rings.” Page 14:www.s2fjournal.com/assets/Issues/Spark_to_Flame_Issue_Three_June_2024.pdf

Oh boy does “The Latecomer” by Adeline Lyons (Flame) and Anton Lushankin (Spark) have rhythm! “Blank on blank, the glare / of white on white, the stench / of flesh on flesh, the pull / of night to night,...” Check it out, page 13: www.s2fjournal.com/assets/Issue...

I love “Children of the Earth” by Aisha Al-Tarawneh (Flame) and Emily Winters (Spark) ~ the internal rhyming, imagery, and flow! So beautiful. “I cup my calf, then my kneecap,/ As if to hold in those vestiges / Of clear rainwater,” Page 12: www.s2fjournal.com/assets/Issue...

“In this forest” by Emily Winters (Flame) and @cyvilizations.bsky.socialwww.s2fjournal.com/assets/Issue...