Poetry Submission Guidelines
Poetry Submission Guidelines
We are looking for full-length collections of poems that perform Olympic feats with language that leave a reader in wonder while still referring back to the basic things that make us human. We want powerful imagery and enjoy the juxtaposition of images in interesting and unexpected ways.
We want poems that make the reader think and feel, work that humbles us with its joy, humor, embarrassment, anger, hope, grief, or all of the above, and gravitate toward writing that has something important to teach us--something that readers really need to know, but might not have understood this was a need until the last word of the work.
- We do not publish: Any content that was written by or with the assistance of generative AI
- Submit full-length manuscripts of approximately 60-80 pages paginated consecutively with a table of contents.
- Include a cover page with a clear title of the work.
- Please single space poems.
- Include a cover letter that describes your work that also includes a short 3rd person biography of no more than 150 words.
- If your work is a simultaneous submission, please let us know immediately if it is published elsewhere.
- Writers may not submit more than once per calendar year.
General Formatting Guidelines
- All submissions should be in Times New Roman, 12pt font, single-spaced, one-inch margins.
- Please include page numbers.
- We can only consider work written in English, but welcome British, Canadian, Australian, and New Zealand English in addition to American English.
- Please proofread and only send us polished, completed work.