Poetry Publications & Readings

Three Candles Journal

Three Candles Submission Guidelines, Poetry:

We look for well crafted poems that speak to the human experience. We generally prefer lyric poems in any form or length that exhibit a strong sense of voice, but we also read and publish formal and experimental poems. The only real criterion is excellence. No previously published poems or simultaneous submissions. We accept submissions of any topic or length, provided the poems are not overtly religious, sexist, racist, pornographic, or otherwise unartful. Please don't ask for a critique—we rarely comment on poems.

  How to submit: Send 3 - 5 poems in the body of an email message to threecandlesjournal@gmail.com

GlitterPony

At GlitterPony we accept submissions all year, but will not respond to submissions from May to July. Please use the form to the right to submit three to five poems. All files must be in .txt (plain text) format with ".txt" at the end of the file name. Emailed submissions will be ignored. Don't like plain text? Check back in July— our system should be able to work with rich text (.rtf) files.

We're sorry but simultaneous submissions are not accepted.

Queries should be sent to:
    editors@glitterponymag.com

(please note that "GlitterPony" must be included in the subject of the email for us to receive it.)

Ecotone

The journal Ecotone emphasizes the deep importance of place in contemporary writing. We hope to break across genres, and across disciplines, to discover writing that is new, dangerous, and refuses to stay safely in a single place. Our goal is an ambitious one: to reclaim landscapes, to remap and reimagine place in writing that is vital, thorny, and alive.

Ecotone is published by the Creative Writing Department at the University of North Carolina Wilmington. We publish high-quality works of creative nonfiction, fiction, and poetry, as well as interviews with new and established authors about the idea of place in literature.

Ecotone welcomes unsolicited works of creative nonfiction, fiction, and poetry with a specific focus on the idea of place.

Mail submissions to:

Ecotone
  Creative Writing Department
  University of North Carolina Wilmington
  601 South College Road
  Wilmington, NC 28403-3297

Idiolexicon

Poetry is huge. We're interested in poetry's ever-morphing relationships with language, grammar, rhythm, metaphor, image..., but we're interested in its relationship with other things, too: politics, economics, theatre, video games, opera, popular music, religion. The most compelling poetry is argumentative without being didactic, political without being dogmatic.

Our hope is that as Idiolexicon grows, it will become a harbor for serious argument and dialogue through poetry. Send responses to other poems that have been featured in Idiolexicon. Send responses to other poems that have not been featured in Idiolexicon  Send your notes from yesterday's football game. Send your annotated version of the State of the Union address. Send the rejection letter you'd send Harold Bloom if you had the chance.

• Poetry and short prose pieces, mainly poetry.
• Slam poets are welcome here. Just don't break anything.
• Send 3-7 poems, or one long poem. We're interested in doing longer stints with sets of poems that we like, so it might be good to send poems that fit together well.
• Previously published is fine, if you tell us that it's been previously published, and where. Simultaneous subs are fine, just let us know if someone good accepts it.
• If at all possible, send your poems in the body of your email. If that's not possible, send your poems as a PDF file. If that's not possible either, explain in your email why we should trust your Word document not to have a virus in it.
• We're also interested in mp3 recordings of featured poems (studio-quality or live performance). Send files via yousendit.
• Send submissions to submissions at idiolexicon dot com.
• This is all an experiment. If we don't take your piece, it's not because we don't like it. It just might not fit with what we're trying to do right now.
• Idiolexicon is licensed under Creative Commons (non-commercial, attribution, share-alike). You retain all rights.

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CALYX

 A forum for women’s creative work—including work by women of color, lesbian and bisexual women, young women, old women—CALYX Journal breaks new ground. Each issue is packed with new poetry, short stories, artwork, photography, essays, and reviews.

CALYX, Inc.

PO Box B

Corvallis OR 97339

1-888-336-2665

FAX 541.753.0515