Fall in love with poetry. Send us your weird, wild & wonderful poems, essays, interviews, & reviews. As Leonard Cohen said, “Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash."
Highlights
- Vibe:Top-tier stuff. Not Paris Review, but ok
- Response time: 90 days after submission*/Editor reported data35 days*Chill Subs tracker stats
- Acceptance rate: 1%*/Editor reported data1.61%*Chill Subs tracker stats
Publication
Accepts simultaneous submissions
What's that?
When you can submit your work to multiple magazines at the same time
Accepts previously published
From the editors
Anthologies, Blogs, Defunct Mags, Only Appeared In Print, Other Lit Mags, Personal Websites, Social Media
What's that?
When the magazine wants to publish your previously published work. Requirements vary
Nominates for prizes
From the editors
Best Of The Net, Pushcart
Active on social media
Available in print
Provides contributor copies
Has examples online
Offers expedited response
Runs themed calls
How to submit
Processs
Submittable
Cover letter
We love cover letters and would prefer knowing whose work we are reading. We care about your identity. You are welcome to share your publication history, if any, though that would not influence our decision.
Eligibility
No specific eligibility requirements
Formatting
- PDF or DOCX - EB Garamond - 13-point font size - 1.15 line space *special formatting welcome *if for technical reasons you cannot follow our preferred formatting, that is totally okay
Author's rights
Our author agreement states the following: “Thank you for permission to publish your work on our website. The site is governed by a Creative Commons license, which states that the works though available online, remain the property of the individual authors and cannot be modified or exploited commercially without your permission. Other than this one-time permission to publish online and archive, you retain all rights to your work. If authors republish their poems after initial publication, we request that they in good faith, give first-publication credit to ONLY POEMS.”
Additional info
Tracker statistics
472
Total submissions tracked
35 days
Average response time
Average acceptance rate
1 days
Fastest response time
124 days
Slowest response time
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About
There are so many ways to delight in poetry. We are a bit obsessive — when we like a poem, we immediately want to see more of the poet’s work. Most literary magazines we love follow a poem-a-day model, focusing on the singular poetic spark. We want to create a space to invite poets to lay before us ...
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US
Masthead
Karan Kapoor
Editor-in-Chief
Shannan Mann
Founding Editor
Justine Payton
Managing Editor