Alan DeNiro, who keeps this satisfyingly strange journal, and who acts as tavern master and high poet mage-lord over this net based poetry resource, and who does many other things as well, is perhaps least known as the poetry editor for our zine, Say...

I publicized our new theme and the latest reading period a couple of days back, and now Alan has a couple of additions. First, a permanent change to the poetry guidelines: only one submission package per poet per issue (the maximum is five poems).

And on his vision for this next issue, themed "what's the combination?" Alan writes:

"[R]ather than receive dozens of "Ye Olde Odes to Safecracking", I thought it would be cool to making for this issue only a call for poems that are coded in some way.

E.g.,

Poems that utilize acrostics, abecedarians, anagrams, syllabics and other cryptographies."

I'll leave y'all to it, then.