About

orotone (n.) a type of photographic print constructed from a negative, yielding a gold-toned or pigmented image.

Established in 2021, ​OROTONE Journal (ISSN 2771-8964) ​is a non-profit, international poetry journal dedicated to publishing ekphrastic poetry. Based out of Vancouver, Canada and Gambier, Ohio, OROTONE Journal ​seeks work that traverses the liminal space between object and observer. Tell us about the films that haunt you, music which unmakes you, paintings you want to live in — anything terrifying enough to be called art. ​ ​

We want poems that cleave memory. The experimental and the timely. The haunted and the hauntings. Pretentious and unpretentious art. That A24 film everyone pretends to understand. 

​Give us poems that resist art. Poems that reinvent. Poems that set the canon on fire. 

Our contributors are U.S. Presidential Scholars in the Arts, YoungArts finalists, Scholastic Art & Writing Awards alumni, Foyle Young Poets, and Academy of American Poets Prize winners.