Diode is back!
Looking forward to a new website, a renewed vision, and an expanded Issue 19.
The old Diode website is back!
When the site disappeared earlier this year, it felt oddly unsettling. I kept thinking about all those poems just out of reach.
I’m happy to say they’re back.
The original site is online again, and the archive is once again open to readers. If you’ve been waiting to revisit an issue or track down a favorite poem, you can.
At the same time, we’re hard at work on what comes next.
As frustrating as the crash was, it also gave us the chance to ask a bigger question: what could Diode become?
As the journal approaches its twentieth anniversary, it feels like the right moment to redesign, and to renew our vision.
Submissions remain open year round and we still respond within 30 days. We’re especially eager to read reviews, interviews, and essays. But we’re also creating a new Special Features section as a space for work that doesn’t fit comfortably into existing categories. Hybrid projects. Collaborations. Visual essays. Archival explorations. Conversations across disciplines. Genre-defying experiments. Things we haven’t thought to ask for. If your work expands our understanding of what a poetry journal can publish, we’d love to see it.
Nineteen years ago, Diode began with a simple belief: that contemporary poetry deserves an editorial home that is adventurous, generous, and deeply attentive to the work. That belief hasn’t changed. If anything, rebuilding the journal has reminded us why it matters.
We’re enormously grateful for your patience while we’ve been rebuilding behind the scenes. The support we’ve received from contributors, readers, editors, and friends, has made it possible for us to imagine not simply recovering, but returning stronger.
Until the new Diode arrives, we want to celebrate the remarkable writers who have made this journal what it is . The link below will lead you to our 2nd Anniversary issue.
