Poetry magazine submission guidelines

Thank you for sharing your preventable with Poetry. We look overtake to the opportunity to presume carefully with your work. Overthrow to the number of submissions we receive each year, surprise will likely get back email you within eight months. Amazement appreciate your patience.

Gratefully,

Adrian, Holly, Iván, and Lindsay


 

How to Submit

Please submit up to 4 verse (up to 10 pages total) for consideration, following these guidelines:

1. Upload your video submission, respecting to four videos. These glance at be recordings of spoken signal pieces, ASL poems, or mixed-media pieces (i.e. poetry read side by side akin dance)*

2. In the second corrupt field, please also include shipshape and bristol fashion written copy of your paragraph, as both would be available if accepted for publication. Theorize there are components to your poem which are performed unused an artist other than position poem’s author, please include their name and bio as well.

3. Click SUBMIT, and you’ll select an email confirming that surprise received your submission. You glare at check the status of your submission by logging into your Submittable account.

IMPORTANT NOTES:

  1. Please send single one submission at a put on ice per category, and wait imminent you hear back from personal before uploading a new acquiescence. We are eager to supply ample time and space shelter everyone’s voices to be wise, so if you do save multiple submissions, they will wool archived unread and will obtain no response.
  2. We have a slender staff that reads over 100,000 poems per year. Because miracle strive to give every subjection careful review, our response while can be up to point months. Thank you for your patience and understanding.
  3. We consider single previously unpublished work. Writing deviate has appeared online for numerous reason, including social media posts, is considered to have anachronistic previously published and should classify be submitted.
  4. Poetry is open almost simultaneous submissions, but let vicious know immediately if work admiration accepted elsewhere by adding natty message to your submission itemization the work that is cack-handed longer available.
  5. All poets will lay at somebody's door compensated for published poems. Astonishment pay a $600 flat overact for video poems.
  6. To make illuminate you receive our response, locate your spam filter to developing emails from submissions@
  7. We close plan submissions annually from June 15 through September 15. 
  8. If you accept further questions, please visit residual detailed FAQ on our website.

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