Poetry Callout May

In the gloaming

Call for submissions 
It’s certain that night follows day – but just before nights falls is a magical moment when the light is still present, but faint. We feel the enchantment of the twillight hour, after the sun sets and the light fragments. In a summer evening, fireflies flash in the gloaming – when the lights has mostly faded and there is a stillness until the final fall of night, letting poetry slip into the half-light.
Here at the Glebe Report’s Poetry Quarter, we ask you to send us your poems on this magical time and how it has touched you.

As usual, poems should be:

• Original and unpublished in any medium (no poems submitted elsewhere, please);

• No more than 30 lines each;

• On any aspect of the theme within the bounds of public discourse; and

• Submitted on or before Tuesday, July 29, 2025.

Poets in the National Capital Region of all ages welcome (school-age poets, please indicate your grade and school). Please send your entries (up to 5 poems that meet the criteria) to editor@glebereport.ca. Remember to send us your contact information and your grade and school if you are in school.

Deadline: Tuesday, July 29, 2025.