Waltz is an online journal of poetry founded in 2026 in Eugene, Oregon.

Given that our journal is named after a style of music and dance, we are interested in work that is assured of its music and rhythm. This does not necessarily mean metrical or rhymed but invested in the sonic potential of poetry. As the waltz is conducted in a ¾ time signature, we look for poems that are slightly askew from the norm of common time: the ugly rendered beautiful, the strange yet familiar, the confident but unsettled.

Ultimately, we are looking for poems that surprise and move us.

Most of the art you see on the site has been gathered and hand-traced from artworks that are within the public domain.