We published "Hot Water" in December 2023. Free the Verse is a quarterly poetry magazine. Since our inception, we've published an issue every quarter, and host a bi-annual poetry competition with a $100 prize. Interested in joining the community? Our submissions are open now. "These poems are profoundly human. They serve as a reminder of the duty of poetry to humanise. When other media is used to dehumanise, poetry can become a small act of resistance – a way to say: look closely, there are real people here." — Zara Shams Kassem, Executive Editor