Poetry Submissions (Tip Jar Option)

You may submit up to three poems with the understanding that one will be selected. Fees collected in the tip jar will go directly to pay the expenses of the journal such as the cost of Web hosting. 

Consider that we're not looking for poems that are overly instructive. Moreover, poems that effectively bridge the divide between the lyrical and the narrative are preferable and most likely to be selected. We especially want poems that are accessible enough to be shared even by those who may not have known they needed poetry until they stumbled on your work. The poems we most gravitate towards are those that reveal what's personally at stake for the speaker of the poem. Diversity is very important to us as a means of bringing disparate experiences together under one roof with the belief that there are more things that unite us as humans than there are that separate us. 

Simultaneous submissions are encouraged, but please let us know if a submission has been accepted elsewhere.

A note on re-prints: We will accept reprints of poems that have appeared in print journals only in order to give them a new life on the Internet.