Publish Your Poetry

In honor of National Poetry Month, I researched publications seeking poetry submissions and poetry writing contests. Some websites offer payment for your poems and unfortunately some do not - however - none listed below require YOU to pay to publish your poetry. I wish you the best of luck!

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   The reading period for the Summer collection will be April 1, through May 1, 2007. Accepted poetry will be posted in June/July, 2007. You can submit early but work will not be reviewed until then (please notify if work is acccepted elsewhere in meantime). Please see guidelines below.

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   is a 5.5" x 8.5" chapbook style quarterly magazine for poets, writers, and poetry lovers filled with poetry, stories, articles, and fun. They accept high quality submissions of these forms: poetry, short stories, artwork (black and white only), poet/author/artist profiles, personal quotes, and up to eight cinquain for the spring issues, and/or three the fall issues. Other essays, articles, or poetic features will be considered should they be submitted. Since this is a small press operation, the SP Quill does not pay for submissions should they appear within an issue or give contributors free copies except to the short story and the featured authors for the quarter (one copy each). Deadlines: May 31 - Summer Issue
   August 31 - Fall Issue

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   We're looking for high-quality, extraordinary SF, fantasy, horror, and "slipstream" poetry. We're looking for modern, exciting poems that explore both the possible and the impossible: stories about human and nonhuman experiences, about dreams and reality, about the past and the future, about the here-and-now and otherwhere-and-elsewhen. We want poems from imaginative and unconventional writers; we want voices from diverse perspectives and backgrounds.

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   Guidelines
   Submit up to 6 short original poems. You must be the author. Any form, including free form, is fine. You may submit previously published works only if you indicate credit.
   E-mail submissions only. Please send only ONE e-mail with all your poems cut and pasted
   into the body of your e-mail.
   Also please include:
   (1) your full name,
   (2) your favorite email address,
   (3) your mailing address (should we need to contact you by regular mail).
   We will not read attachments due to virus concerns. Any attachments sent will be deleted
   without notification. Mail to poetry editor Please put “Poetry Submission” in the subject line of the e-mail. If we accept your work, we will contact you by e-mail for your approval. We will ask for one-time, electronic rights. You’re work will remain available to everyone, posted in our archives. Once published online, all rights revert back to you. We ask that you give Ludlow Press credit as a previous publisher, but that is a courtesy, not a requirement.

   
   

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   Has no defined format for its poetry, no niche against the world that we protect in a desperate attempt to stand out in a deluge of small presses. Our rejection letter will not explain away your submission with "original but not what we're looking for." We're not looking for any particular style or format. The presses who engage in this practice—whom we could call "The Unclickables"—attempt to fixate on a particular kind of poetry rather than linking to a larger poetry network. The Unclickables say "we stop here, this is our space" and guard that space as if their identity and very existence depended on it. This leads to the disastrous situation of editors rather than poets making poetry.
   The identity of Clickable Poems will be shaped by poets rather than editorial policies. All poems that venture outside such pre-determined formats to create interesting and original poems (rather than being bizarre for the sake of being bizarre) will be accepted. We ask poets to define what this e-journal becomes rather than giving editors this important responsibility. It is our job to filter through the texts and forge the links. In short, you build the texts; we'll build the links.
   Please submit printed poems or translations in .txt format or, if .doc format, please save your file as a Microsoft Word attachment.
   Sound files of performance poems are strongly encouraged. You'll need to know how to create and encode your sound file in order to submit it in .ra format.
   Hypertext poems are also strongly encouraged. You'll need to know how to write HTML code, and submit your files in a single directory, including all .html, .gif, .jpg, and .ra files. Please submit your hypertexts with the correct coding and the files saved in the correct format. We will not write the code for you nor will we fix code for you. If your file has missing or incorrect code and the poem creates a disaster area on our site, we will return your submission. To repeat: poets are responsible for poetry, not poetry editors.
   We are also looking for essays that in some way treat the interconnections between poetry, history, and culture.

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   A Film based on The Winning Poem will be created
   by award winning filmmaker Richard E. Schiff and
   That Film will be Featured on the front page of
   PoetryMagazine.com in the Winter 2007-2008 Edition.
   In addition all submissions will immediately be placed
   under consideration for The Editors' Choice Awards 2007 :
   a Feature in an upcoming edition of PoetryMagazine.com.
   There could be more than one winner, and if you are a WINNER your poetry
   will be seen by publishers, editors, & writers around the world in this prominent position !
   Film creator, Mr. Schiff attended New York University Film School and is a Life Member of New York City's world famous Art Students League. His film work has appeared on Public Broadcasting and has been distributed by the Walter Reade Corporation and seen on screens across the Nation. Recently a film he contributed to won a
   First Prize in the 2007 Sundance Film Festival.
   The WINNER'S VIDEO will be Featured in the Winter 2007-2008 edition of PoetryMagazine.com. The Film will also be presented to the Winner on a DVD in High Definition for large screen viewing. There is a minimal Entry Fee of $25.00. Payment may be made by using the Secure Pay Pal Button below or by check.Mary Barnet will head a panel of well known poets to judge this Contest. The decision of the Judges will be final.
   Deadline for Entries is August 31st, 2007. No poems will be considered if they contain vulgarity or profanity or overt sexual language or descriptions.

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